Jim Bacon summarizes a recent University of Virginia Board of Visitors meeting which addressed tensions in the UVA community between Jews and the vocal pro-Palestinian faction over the Israel-Gaza war.

Morgan Bettinger has resolved her lawsuit with the University and its administrators. Learn more about her case and allegations of the UVA Administration’s responsibility for the alleged deprivations of her federally protected civil rights.

University of Virginia President Jim Ryan has announced the creation of the Committee on Institutional Statements to develop principles to guide official university statements on national and global events.

A University of Virginia student group is petitioning to hold a referendum demanding that the University of Virginia Investment Management Company divest itself of investments in corporations implicated by Israel's "apartheid" regime.

The University of Virginia relegated "alumnae relation" to a minor factor. In a list of seventeen published admissions criteria classified as "considered," "important," and "very important," legacy status was considered but not deemed important.

How do students respond to the statement, "I feel that I belong at the University of Virginia"? Does UVA President Ryan's emphasis on racial, ethnic, and religious identity make it easier for students to fit in?

The University of Virginia has paid more than $1.8 million in legal fees fighting a lawsuit filed by UVA Health employees who were fired, despite religious objections, for refusing to take the COVID vaccine. And that's just through November.

Jonathan Haidt is one of the most important public intellectuals in America today. If you're not familiar with his work, you need to be. You'll get a chance to hear him when he comes to the University of Virginia February 8 as a guest of The Jefferson Council.

Free speech and open dialogue are the best ways to drive pernicious ideas into oblivion. Sadly for UVA, there is widespread support among professors and students not only for banning ideas they find offensive, but for shaming and shunning those who support the right of people to even hold and express those ideas.

The manner in which partisan and ideological bias at UVA works its effect on students is more complex and nuanced than commonly understood. We'll do our best to give UVA alumni a balanced appraisal.

Honor Council members believe in the Honor Code and their efforts are to be commended. But if students are unwilling to turn in offenders, and if the faculty reformats its tests in lieu of prosecuting cheaters, then the "community of trust" does not seem to be working as advertised.

Round and round we go. It may be impossible to bring greater transparency to higher ed at the level of the individual institution. It may require changing state law and taking on the higher-ed lobby in Richmond.

Acting on behalf of The Jefferson Council, Walter Smith has filed a complaint in Henrico County against the University of Virginia, seeking a remedy for its refusal to supply documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

In light of the presidential defenestrations at Harvard and Penn, what should an elite university look for in a president?

Free speech isn't easy, UVA President Ryan has concluded. Neither is being a Jew at UVA these days.

The Morgan Bettinger story and lawsuit continues to garner national attention.

Morgan Bettinger was found guilty of violating UVA's Standards of Conduct after she was overheard speaking to a garbage truck driver and was accused of making a threat. The student judiciary instituted a punishment in the form of compelled speech to avoid expulsion.

The Jefferson Council President and signatories write to the UVA Board of Visitors in response to the Board's decision to act on the Racial Equity Task Force's recommendation to “contextualize” the Thomas Jefferson statue in front of the Rotunda.