A letter from 128 physicians to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors has urged the Board to uphold academic freedom, free speech and patient safety by replacing UVA Health Systems CEO Craig Kent and medical school Dean Melina Kibbe.

While we applaud national recognitions of our beloved alma mater, recent rankings do not paint a full picture of the “affordability” of a UVA education. UVA is not cost competitive. Expenses must be drastically reduced.

It is beyond the Astronomy Department’s power to boost the number of minorities capable of flourishing in the sciences. Until change occurs in the K-12 education system, it’s not evident what all the Department’s DEI activity can accomplish.

Mr. Jefferson’s legacy cannot be preserved unless we ensure that the cost of a University of Virginia education remains competitive with our peer universities.

Since the advent of anti-Israel / anti-Jewish rhetoric and behaviors of questionable legality on Grounds, our goal to promote a culture of civil dialogue at the University of Virginia has been brought into clear focus.

The United Campus Workers of Virginia at the University of Virginia has launched a campaign urging faculty and graduate students to withhold grades until the Ryan administration capitulates to its demands of amnesty for people arrested during the crackdown on the pro-Palestinian “liberation zone.”

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?