How to Get Alumni to Stop Caring About UVa

Written By James Bacon

Letter addressed to Executive Director James A. Bacon from an alumnus, Comm School Class of '98, name withheld by request.James, the UVA community is fortunate for people like yourself that speak up. For calling out madness when it is happening when so many just grumble and shake their heads.My son just applied to UVA. With a 4.1 GPA in the toughest course load, 1550 SAT, and plenty of extracurricular activities he was not accepted.My wife and I live out of state, but we both graduated from UVA.I don't think I've ever not donated to the school each year since I graduated or gone a week without wearing a piece of Virginia clothing.I did ask my alumni donation representative for an explanation about the medical school student's expulsion for questioning the administration a couple of years ago. Besides writing checks and attending games, that is all the school knew about me.This is how they get me to stop caring about the school. They fire the alumni. Whether it is having signs on lawn rooms slandering the school, removing Mr. Jefferson's legacy, or just removing legacies it has the same effect.I was hopeful with the Governor's election and Ellis' appointment. Keep up the fight, but I'm done. That was the last straw for me.

James Bacon

After a 25-year career in Virginia journalism, James A. Bacon founded Bacon’s Rebellion in 2002 a blog with the goal of “Reinventing Virginia for the 21st Century.” Its focus is on building more prosperous, livable and sustainable communities. In recent years he has concentrated more on the spread of “woke” ideology in K-12 schools, the criminal justice system, higher education, and medicine.

In 2021, he co-founded The Jefferson Council to preserve free speech, intellectual diversity, and the Jeffersonian legacy at his alma mater the University of Virginia. He previously served as the organization’s executive director, now serving as congributing editor.

Aside from blogging, Bacon writes books. His first was Boomergeddon: How Runaway Deficits Will Bankrupt the Country and Ruin Retirement for Aging Baby Boomers — And What You Can Do About It, followed by Maverick Miner: How E. Morgan Massey Became a Coal Industry Legend and a work of science fiction, Dust Mites: the Siege of Airlock Three.

A Virginian through-and-through, Bacon lives in Richmond with his wife Laura.

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