Category: DEI
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The first university has admitted to race-based hiringby Scott Douglas Gerber in The Hill Money quote: After Students for Fair Admissions was decided, [Interim President Paul Mahoney] wrote, the university had received new guidance that “commits us to cease using race as a criterion for employment.” Of course, the university cannot “cease” using race in employment…
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Pragmatic or Partisan?
Will Abigail Spanberger fight for DEI or for intellectual diversity in her dealings with UVA? by Joel Gardner Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger states that she wants to have an administration that reflects pragmatism rather than partisanship. But her Democrat colleagues in the state senate have already exhibited a degree of partisanship vis-à-vis the University of Virginia…
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From the Classroom to the Culture War
by Kerry Dougherty Earlier this year “Morning Joe” host, Joe Scarborough, said his daughter, a student at the University of Virginia, is afraid to raise her hand in class. “If she says anything polticallly incorrect she knows she’ll immediately be cancelled,” he said. Great. It happens everywhere. Colleges and universities have become intolerant left-wing indoctrination…
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Gaslighting for DEI
Community DEI proponents must stop ignoring the law. It is illegal to consider race, gender, ethnicity or other protected traits in employment and admissions decisions at U.Va. by Scott Douglas Gerber The Sept. 4, 2025 op-ed by “5 U.Va. Community Members” about my Aug. 15, 2025 open letter to Interim President Paul Mahoney (both published in the Cavalier Daily)…
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Miyares Excoriates “Utter Travesty” Against Women Swimmers
by Scott Dreyer At 10:30 a.m. on August 25, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares held a press conference at the Salem library to reveal his office’s investigation into alleged abuse by Roanoke College officials against members of the 2023-24 women’s swim team. About twenty people attended the event, including five Roanoke County elected officials, some local media, and…
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Punish Perverse Beltway Counties by Cutting Transportation Funding
Northern Virginia counties that let students use the opposite sex’s bathrooms and locker rooms can pay to pave their own streets. We won’t. by Jacob Grandstaff President Donald Trump’s administration should pull all Department of Transportation funding from counties and cities whose school boards continue to push far-left gender ideology. A good place to start…
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Maybe Ryan Should Have Toughed it Out
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The Trump administration has found that George Mason University (GMU) has violated federal law with its DEI policies. A spokesman for the Dept. of Education said, GMU “waged a university-wide campaign to implement unlawful DEI policies that intentionally discriminate on the basis of race.” The penalty? The president of the university, Gregory Washington, must…
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Judge Affirms Senate Dems’ Power Grab
A Fairfax County circuit county judge has sided with state Senate Democrats who filed a lawsuit to prevent eight public university board members appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin from continuing to serve. The Democrats claimed that an 8-to-4 vote June 9 by a Senate subcommittee during a special session required no other action. Youngkin and…
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A Power Play Remarkable for Its Audacity
by James A. Bacon The lead of this Virginian-Pilot article might be a tad inaccurate, but it hits close to the mark: Virginia Democratic legislators said Thursday that they would not confirm a permanent replacement for former University of Virginia president Jim Ryan, who was ousted last month under pressure from the Trump administration. I…
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Bacon’s Rebellion Proud to Be Part of Shadowy Clique of Puppet Masters
by James A. Bacon I didn’t know it but, apparently, I’m part of the vast right-wing conspiracy. I’m so clued in to the machinations of the conservative claque seeking to rid higher-ed of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion that I predicted that George Mason University President Gregory Washington might be forced to step down over DEI…
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A Cry of Inchoate Fear
by James A. Bacon Mark Edmundson, an English professor at the University of Virginia, ran a column Saturday in the Wall Street Journal about threats to academic freedom. He leads with an anecdote about teaching John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost” with his students. “Milton can help you think about almost any consequential human subject.…
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Reinventing UVA: Intellectual Diversity
by James A. Bacon Two days ago, I made the case that the University of Virginia has a shot at becoming the most desirable university in the country to learn, teach and pursue knowledge. To do that, the Board of Visitors must recruit a president and a provost committed to building a faculty nationally renowned…
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Higher Ed Now a Potent Election Issue
by James A. Bacon For time immemorial, higher-ed policy in Virginia was the subject of broad bipartisan agreement. No longer. Virginia Democrats are fired up about University of Virginia President Jim Ryan’s resignation, and they are using it to make Virginia statewide elections a referendum on President Trump. We’ve already reported on how Senate Democrats…
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Righteousness Repeated
Virginia leads the way. by Gordon C. Morse George Kennan, one of the titans of 20th century American diplomacy, appeared in April, 1951 at the University of Chicago to present a series of lectures. He was there to explain, more or less, the first half of the 20th century. “In the fabric of human events,” Kennan said,…
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What Next?
The potential now exists to make UVA the most exciting university in the country to learn, teach and pursue knowledge. by James A. Bacon The departure of President Jim Ryan and Provost Ian Baucom suddenly leaves reformers in the driver’s seat at the University of Virginia. Now what? We know what we didn’t like —…