My FOIA journey began in 2021, soon after the University of Virginia released its “free speech” statement. I was disappointed with it, thinking it lukewarm and empty of enforcement — a fig leaf resulting from the alumni outcry arising out of the poor handling of the F--- UVA Lawn door.

The first time Acampora came to my attention was at the September 2023 Board of Visitors meeting. She didn’t sound like a political progressive at all but rather, as she described herself to the board, “a bottom-line, up-front kind of person.”

A bill introduced in the General Assembly would require public four-year institutions to record, archive, and make Boards of Visitors meetings available to the public for five years.

The University of Virginia’s 2030 Plan for creating “a great and good university” lists ten key initiatives, one of which is its “good neighbor program.”

More than a third (35%) of tenured and tenure-track faculty at 55 of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities say they have toned down their writing for fear of engendering controversy. How does this compare to the Red Scare of the ‘50s?

The Daily Progress recently reported on perhaps the most staggering antisemitic incident in what has become a long list of antisemitic incidents at the University of Virginia.

Time is running short for Governor Glenn Youngkin to make his mark on the University of Virginia. His appointees to the Board of Visitors now comprise a 13-to-4 majority, yet after almost a half year, they have failed to make a visible dent in the priorities set by President Jim Ryan.

Matan Goldstein, the Jewish student who was subjected to repeated antisemitic treatment at the University of Virginia, has settled his lawsuit against the University. Terms of the settlement were not revealed. While the public cannot know how much UVA paid, if anything, to make the problem go away, we can get a sense of how much it spent on legal fees.

Bert Ellis was mad as hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore. He didn’t reenact Peter Finch playing Howard Beale in his famous rant in the movie “Network.” In fact, he was very calm and deliberate. But he made it clear to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors Thursday that he had run out of patience. He would refuse to vote in favor of any new spending project until the University got serious about cutting costs, Ellis said.

Explore the idea of what inclusion should look like. How do institutions, in particular universities, create a sense of belonging for students, faculty and staff from all walks of life? As it happens, there is an excellent positive example at UVA of how to foster a sense of belonging — the Hoos Connected program.

A senior tenured faculty member has anonymously expressed concerns about various circumstances prevalent on Grounds. This professor wishes to remain anonymous due to fear of retaliation by the administration. One of the matters he/she discusses is the deterioration of our Honor System, focusing on the "secession" by the faculty from the System.

It’s time for UVA officials to release the Attorney General’s report into the university actions leading up to the shooting, which resulted in the deaths of three UVA football players.

That’s what UVA leadership promised. Now it’s time to make good on that promise.

More than 60 employers showed up to UVA’s job fair — and so did The Dissenters, a militant pro-Palestinian student organization that targeted companies deemed complicit with Israel.

Once again, the UVA’s BOV is conducting the ritual of pretending to be involved in setting rates for tuition, fees, room and board — but the minutes record no comments or questions by any board member.

The Jefferson Council has received a letter from a senior University of Virginia faculty member who, for fear of retaliation, asks to remain anonymous. He outlines what he calls “generic” concerns of the UVA faculty. The first focuses on a critical  dysfunction of the Honor System.

Ironically, the office in charge of protecting people from harassment on the basis of religion subjected this fourth-year UVA student to a twenty-minute Zoom call and applied mild pressure to stop expressing his Christian view. The double standards rankle.

Joe Scarborough’s daughter attends UVA and here’s what he has to say

Past UVA boards have passively accepted whatever numbers the administration dished out to them. The Jefferson Council is hopeful that the new board, dominated 13-to-4 by appointees of Governor Glenn Youngkin, will take a more assertive approach to cost control and tuition increases.