More than 60 employers showed up to UVA’s job fair — and so did The Dissenters, a militant pro-Palestinian student organization that targeted companies deemed complicit with Israel.

Once again, the UVA’s BOV is conducting the ritual of pretending to be involved in setting rates for tuition, fees, room and board — but the minutes record no comments or questions by any board member.

The Jefferson Council has received a letter from a senior University of Virginia faculty member who, for fear of retaliation, asks to remain anonymous. He outlines what he calls “generic” concerns of the UVA faculty. The first focuses on a critical  dysfunction of the Honor System.

Ironically, the office in charge of protecting people from harassment on the basis of religion subjected this fourth-year UVA student to a twenty-minute Zoom call and applied mild pressure to stop expressing his Christian view. The double standards rankle.

Past UVA boards have passively accepted whatever numbers the administration dished out to them. The Jefferson Council is hopeful that the new board, dominated 13-to-4 by appointees of Governor Glenn Youngkin, will take a more assertive approach to cost control and tuition increases.

“The administration of the university and the health system are not involved and will not be involved in any aspect of deciding what evidence to obtain, reviewing evidence, or supervising the investigation.“

The biggest controversy roiling UVA today swirls around accusations leveled by 128+ letter signatories against leaders of the UVA Health System and School of Medicine. Evidence surfaced by the Kieran Bhattacharya proceedings reveals the nature of the medical bureaucracy that Kent and Kibbe inherited.

“We were instrumental in helping Tyler revive the YAF chapter and look forward to working with them and other student groups to schedule future conservative speakers ensuring diverse viewpoints are offered at the University.“

"I never wanted to know this much about FOIA and the IRB, and all elements of UVA trickery to avoid disclosing things they are legally required to."

Donovan Golich may have been excessively zealous in his investigations, but the University’s problematic approach to fraternities does not end with his departure.

One month has passed since the death of openthebooks.com founder and CEO Adam Andrzejewski who The Jefferson Council will remember as the very definition of William Wordsworth’s Happy Warrior.

The controversy over an allegedly toxic work environment at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and UVA Health System reached escape velocity. “I can stand here before you honestly and claim these statements to be categorically false.”

If such bullying behavior is shown to be the norm for some types of students and not others, UVA has a very big problem.

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.