Tag: Virginia Commonwealth University
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And in Other Higher-Ed News….
The Richmond Times-Dispatch contrasts how Virginia Commonwealth University dismantled Diversity, Equity & Inclusion with relatively modest controversy — and provides a sharp contrast with the University of Virginia. Here’s how Eric Kolenich summarizes VCU’s response: When state and federal officials told Virginia Commonwealth University to scrub DEI from every corner of campus, the university’s administrators went…
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VCU DEI Update
by James A. Bacon Virginia Commonwealth University has eliminated 13 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion positions, revised some scholarship requirements, and eliminated mandated diversity statements, reports The Richmond Times-Dispatch. In March, VCU’s board voted 11 to 4 to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring universities to eliminate DEI and racial preferences. The action eliminated the…
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The End of Science! Lives Will Be Lost!
by James A. Bacon Don’t question university overhead costs or thousands will die! That is essentially the message of Virginia’s big three research universities — Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University — in response to a National Institutes of Health initiative capping reimbursable overhead costs to 15% of the research grants…
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VCU Loses DEI Grant
Virginia Commonwealth University is one of three universities to have a federal grant canceled in the latest step by the Trump administration to defund Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. The education schools of VCU, California State University-Los Angeles and the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota had received a series of grants under a larger $1…
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Organized Labor? We’re Not Organized, We’re Academics!
by James A. Bacon It’s a shame that the United Campus Workers of Virginia (UCW-VA) are such insufferable leftists. I could almost sympathize with their aims. Universities in the United States treat their graduate students and adjunct faculty abominably. Thousands of these employees lead an insecure, ill-paid existence and probably could benefit from a union…
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How Will VCU Pay for Student Athletes?
by James A. Bacon Opting into an NCAA settlement that professionalizes college athletics, Virginia Commonwealth University has decided it will pay its student athletes a total of between $4 million and $5 million a year, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “Amateurism as we know it is dead,” Athletic Director Ed McLaughlin told the school’s Board of Visitors. “There…