Category: Education (higher ed)
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UVA’s Latest Compliance Report Raises Questions
In describing how the University of Virginia is dismantling its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, the most recent UVA compliance report to the Department of Justice shows just how extensive those programs were, writes Scott Douglas Gerber in a Richmond Times-Dispatch op-ed. The report’s specifics are telling. The School of Education and Human Development “eliminated”…
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What You’re Paying for at UVA
A SWAT team of adolescent psychiatrists to help your kid through his mental health crisis Author, entrepreneur and public speaker Scott Galloway is a man of the left, but he’s not doctrinaire. He has a lot of contrarian things to say. To me, the most interesting comments from this stream-of-consciousness clip of Galloway at the…
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HUD Warns Colleges: End Racially Segregated Dorms
From Virginia Tech to University of Wisconsin, separate is still unequal. by Victoria Manning It’s 2026, yet colleges and universities across the nation still push racial segregation on campus. Higher education institutions have spent the last decade building racially segregated dormitories under a friendlier name—”black living learning communities.” Now President Trump’s Department of Housing and…
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Doctrinaire Humbug for UVA First-Years
by the Jefferson Council Every incoming student in UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences is required to take four two-credit “Engagements” courses their first year — eight credits total, out of roughly 30 a first-year typically completes. It isn’t optional. It’s a graduation requirement, built into the College Curriculum that replaced UVA’s older general education…
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DEI by Any Other Name Is Just as Noxious
Did UVA eliminate DEI or merely rebrand it? by the Jefferson Council For over a decade, successive UVA administrations spent millions of dollars building one of the most extensive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies in American higher education. A 2021 survey ranked UVA second among major universities in the number of DEI employees, and…
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Rocovich Punches Back
From Cardinal News: Former Virginia Tech rector John Rocovich filed a lawsuit against Gov. Abigail Spanberger in Montgomery County Circuit Court on Tuesday after she removed him from the university’s board of visitors in May for undisclosed reasons pertaining to his conduct. … Rocovich’s team of attorneys argued, in the lawsuit, that Spanberger did not…
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Former UVA President’s Sabbatical Raises Governance Questions
by Scott Douglas Gerber When former University of Virginia President Jim Ryan recently sat for a friendly interview with Cville Right Now, he sounded delighted to be off the clock. He described mornings spent writing a leadership book; afternoons kite surfing, skiing, golfing, biking and traveling; and he joked, “I’m really good at not working.” The joke…
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Drip, Drip, Drip
The truth slowly emerges about what UVA leaders knew about the Health System scandal. by The Jefferson Council A bombshell disclosure in a recent FOIA proceeding reveals that UVA’s Board of Visitors, led by Robert Hardie, quietly retained Williams & Connolly (W&C) as “special counsel to the BOV and the Audit, Compliance, and Risk Committee…
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Dodging FOIA at VMI
Bob Morris, a Virginia Military Institute alumni activist, has filed suit in York County Circuit Court against VMI alleging the withholding, redacting, and even altering public records. Here follows a Chat GPT summary based upon a media backgrounder provided by The Cadet, a VMI student newspaper with which Morris is closely affiliated. — JAB Core…
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Still Addicted to Opacity in Governance
From The Jefferson Council: The UVA BOV will have their Quarterly Board Meeting on Thursday and Friday, June 4-5. UVA still has *NOT* published the agenda or Board materials, only a schedule. You can find that here. The Quarterly Board meeting will be followed by a retreat on Saturday at Morven, with sessions on:*Accountability &…
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Wrecked Rectors & Busted Boards
by Gordon C. Morse Here’s what John G. Rocovich, former rector of Virginia Tech, wrote to Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger last Thursday: “Virginia Tech deserves better than to be made a political football. I have given too much of my life to this institution to stand by silently while its independence is threatened — regardless…
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Spanberger Making Enemies All Over Virginia
by Kerry Dougherty Last week, after it was announced that Gov. Abigail Spanberger was meddling in Virginia Tech governance by summarily firing the beloved rector of Virginia Tech, former Rep. Scott Taylor posed a question on X: Is there any group that the new governor of Virginia hasn’t pissed off?“Furries,” I replied. “The NOVA Wine…
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Rocovich Responds
to his firing as Virginia Tech rector by Governor Abigail Spanberger. Source: (18) Patrick Bowers on X: “GO OFF ROC! Take a seat @SpanbergerForVA https://t.co/HaU97nyo8d” / X
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The More Things Change at UVA, the More They Stay the Same
Despite the shake-up in leadership at the University of Virginia, at least one senior administrator regards Thomas Jefferson with antipathy. Kenyon Bonner, chief student affairs officer at the University of Virginia, delivered the keynote address to the graduating class of 2026 during Final Exercises. The Daily Progress provided this excerpt: “Graduates, you symbolize the possibilities…
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“Death to America”
The event was not registered as required by university policy. But Virginia Tech allowed it to proceed unimpeded at McBryde Hall, Room 202.