The mechanics of the high-tuition, high-aid financial model are complex and, as long as I have been attending UVA Board meetings, have never been fully explained. President Ryan owes the Board more than feel-good stories of generous donors like the Stephensons. He owes a full accounting.

Who makes up the UVA Board of Visitors "Executive Committee"? What is their role? And how are they potentially stacking the deck for another year of status quo?

A group of UVA medical-school faculty members aired their allegations against the University’s medical leadership after trying fruitlessly to work within the system. As usual, Board of Visitors proceedings lacked transparency.

Just how bad is administrative overhead at the University of Virginia? It’s difficult to say. Hard numbers are difficult to come by. But a revealing statistic surfaced in a document shared Friday with the Board of Visitors.

The University of Virginia adopted a resolution on September 13, backing a statement of institutional neutrality on events taking place outside the University.

Militant groups at the University of Virginia tried to organize a “sit-in” at the Board of Visitors meeting on September 12. Are their demands realistic?

Read The Jefferson Council President Tom Neale's letter to the UVA Board of Visitors, included in TJC's Fall 2024 BOV Welcome Brief.

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.