Watch this recording of a special closed session of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors regarding the UVA Encampment for Palestine.

Students and faculty at the University of Virginia often talk about having "hard conversations" about the tragic realities. But do they have any interest in confronting discomfiting truths themselves? TJC contributing editor Jim Bacon writes.

Perhaps Ryan could draw spine-stiffening inspiration from the University's founder Thomas Jefferson, who dealt with student riots in 1825.

The ideological filtering process is at work at UVA. The more each department becomes ideologically homogenous, inclined to groupthink, and disparaging of anyone with different views, the less likely it is to hire anyone who thinks differently. A vicious cycle sets in.

A core principle of academic research is for scholars to make their data open to inspection by others for the purpose of peer review. The UVA administration doesn't live up to its own principles.

Is this case an outlier or a symptom of a larger corruption in which academic standards were suspended for demographically favored groups?

Sometimes we hear from alumni who believe UVA has gone so far down the rabbit hole of wokeness that it's a lost cause. UVA is not a lost cause. If it were, we wouldn't be wasting our time with it.

By manipulating the Board agenda, the Jim Ryan administration has managed to avoid any meaningful accountability at the University of Virginia.

We applaud OpenTheBooks for its extensive research and for its willingness to hold the Ryan administration's feet to the fire over the number of DEI administrators employed by UVA. But we must remember that there is an even bigger story to be told.

Was "student safety" a legitimate reason to reject a call for open debate about one of the most contentious set of issues to afflict UVA in years?

OpenTheBooks' exposé on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion costs at the University of Virginia is generating loads of attention.

For anyone interested in UVA governance, it can be immensely helpful to consult Board of Visitors proceedings. Archiving the video is essential to maintaining transparency and accountability, and if UVA won't do it, The Jefferson Council will.

This grading measure is worthy of attention by the Board of Visitors.

What do you get when you turn over management of organizational culture to an army of bureaucrats?

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?