Category: Education (higher ed)
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UVA’s President Was Right to Resign
“Former university head Jim Ryan presided over a potential pattern of civil-rights violations, writes John D. Sailer at the Manhattan Institute — highlighting a fact that has largely been ignored by state Senate leaders intent upon asserting control over the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors. From his article in the City Journal: Rather than…
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Do Students Benefit from College Athletics?
James V. Koch, a former university president, prolific writer about college governance, and huge college sports fan, chats with Jim Bacon about the seismic changes in the college sports landscape. In his new book, “The Economic Impact of Intercollegiate Athletics on Former Students,” Koch explores the pros and cons of college athletics for students and…
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Governance Breakdown in Virginia Higher Ed
by Gordon C. Morse Here’s the thing to sort out about Virginia’s colleges and universities: These schools achieved widespread acclaim on the basis of a rather specific, long-standing governing arrangement. Today most everyone looks upon Virginia higher education with pride and satisfaction. It works for us; it has for a long time. So why have…
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The Disturbing Politicization of UVA’s Faculty Senate
— written by a correspondent in Virginia Inside Higher Ed, an online publisher of news and opinion in the higher education sphere, recently published an article entitled, “The Angry 8: On Faculty Senates.” The thrust of the story is that the faculty senates at many colleges and universities have been hijacked by a relatively small…
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GMU Law School Dean Tenders Resignation
Ken Randall, dean of the Scalia Law School at George Mason University, has tendered his resignation effective the end of the academic year, according to Virginia Business magazine, citing remarks by GMU Provost James Antony to GMU’s academic affairs committee. A university spokesman denied that Randall’s departure is related to last month’s House Judiciary Committee…
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“Better Have a Very Good Buyout Clause”
House speaker predicts short tenure for any UVA president selected by current UVA Board.
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Outrage Over Reason at UVA Law
“Are we teaching people to think or just teaching them to judge?” At a recent Federalist Society panel discussion, UVA Law professor Xiao Wang described the response from students and colleagues to his role in winning a unanimous ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in Ames vs. Ohio Youth Services. The ruling ended the “heightened…
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Abigail Spanberger Bullies UVa Board
by Kerry Dougherty Take a seat, lady. Someone needs to remind Abigail Spanberger that Virginia has just one governor. And until January 17th it ain’t her. Spanberger may have had an impressive win on November 4th, but Gov. Glenn Youngkin gets to carry out the duties of the office HE was elected free from her…
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Spanberger’s Political Amnesia
by The Jefferson Council In a striking act of political amnesia, Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger has demanded that the UVA Board of Visitors refrain from choosing a president until she can appoint new BOV members, when, in fact, the 100% Democrat-appointed Board of Visitors exercised no such restraint following the election of Governor Youngkin four years…
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Also Worth Reading…
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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UVa to Trump: No Thanks
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The University of Virginia has declined to sign the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” proposed by the Trump administration. In exchange for agreeing to a long list of terms, institutions signing the contract were offered “allowance for increased overhead payments where feasible, substantial and meaningful federal grants, and other federal…
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A Protege of Clarence Thomas at UVa. ?!
by Dick Hall-Sizemore After reading incessantly on this blog that the faculty of the University of Virginia is hopelessly progressive and woke and that students studying there will be indoctrinated in progressive ideas that are bad for the country, imagine my surprise upon learning that one of the leading originalist interpreters of the Constitution teaches…