City Journal: UVA’s President Was Right to Resign

Former university head Jim Ryan presided over a potential pattern of civil-rights violations.

The University of Virginia drew national headlines last summer when its then-president, Jim Ryan, resigned in the face of a Department of Justice investigation into a potential pattern of civil-rights violations by the university. More recently, Ryan and others have accused the UVA board of conspiring to push him out.

It’s amusing that Ryan would try to turn his DOJ ouster into a whodunit. Just last week, UVA board member and donor Paul Manning affirmed that he told Ryan it would be “[Ryan’s] decision” whether to resign. Manning simply told him that hanging onto power might cost the university federal funding.

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