UVA HAS ONE PRICE ON PAPER. STUDENTS PAY SEVEN
Virginia reports one in-state tuition price for UVA: $17,336. But UVA’s Board actually sets twelve rates by school and year, and students who arrive from high school pay one of seven prices, topping out at $29,913, about 72% more, for third- and fourth-year Commerce students. Many families don’t learn about the higher rates until after they’re at UVA. UVA’s Engineering price differential alone, $11,064 a year, costs more than a full year’s base tuition at 11 other Virginia public universities.
UVA Administrators have grown more than ten Times as fast as its students since 2013
From 2013 to 2024, UVA's administrators grew 11 times as fast as its student body and four and a half times as fast as the people who teach. We look at where that growth went. Executive pay is part of it, including a COO now paid more than $1 million. So are some administrative offices that each cost more in salaries than entire academic departments. Mr. Jefferson founded an academical village; his successors have built an administrative city around it.
WHAT THIRTY YEARS DID TO UVA’S PRICE TAG
In the fall of 1995, a Virginia family sending a kid to UVA got a bill for $4,614 in tuition and required fees. Thirty years later, an entering first-year is billed $23,960, on average. A family deciding if UVA is affordable is not just looking at tuition. They are looking at a total bill. Averaged across the schools, that bill is now about 2.2 times what thirty years of inflation would have produced — and the same is true for out-of- state. In both cases, inflation accounts for less than half the total bill. The rest is a series of decisions: a long run of them, made by each administration and Board of Visitors year after year.
DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE ALIVE AND WELL AT UVA
Shannon Fellowships are supposedly awarded to “outstanding mid-career faculty.” By any reasonable standard, has Mr. Ogunnaike deserved this recognition–or is this just a reward for representing the most outlandish pablum from a faculty where liberals outnumber conservatives by a ratio in the neighborhood of 99:1?
ONE WEEK LATER. SILENCE FROM UVA.
Last week we asked whether anyone in UVA's administration would respond to a petition promulgated by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) demanding the resignation of Darden Dean Yael Grushka-Cockayne on the grounds that she is Israeli and served in the IDF, as Israeli law requires of nearly everyone. A student answered. UVA did not
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