Meet Marisa Williamson. The Harvard-educated assistant professor in the University of Virginia art department works in video, image-making, installation and performance art around themes of history, race, feminism, and technology.

UVA is in the midst of a $1 billion DEI program. Student tuition, progressive third-party foundations, and taxpayer money fund this massive initiative. However, the tenets of DEI are fundamentally anti-American and radical.

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.

The problem at UVA is not showcasing Bartov's perspective. The problem is showcasing only one side of a contentious debate.

Meet Melody Pannell, UVA Health's Director of Diversity and Community Engagement. Her job is to "cultivate an inclusive community, address social disparities and health inequities, and empower others.”

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion staff at the University of Virginia downplayed concerns about Tessa Farmer, an anthropology professor who reportedly offered extra credit to students to attend a Students for Justice in Palestine-organized teach-in.

A review of upcoming events at the University of Virginia shows vividly how UVA has become an intellectual monoculture that explores only ideas that fall within a narrow partisan and ideological range.

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.

Tens of millions of dollars in student tuition and taxpayer monies are flowing into promoting anti-American notions and radical philosophies that judge the color of one’s skin instead of the content — and competence — of their character.

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

The Jefferson Council president Tom Neale joins the Armstrong Williams Show to discuss antisemitism and free speech at the University of Virginia.

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.

Meet Christa Noel Robbins who teaches art history at the University of Virginia who was motivated to cancel class by solidarity with the "Yes on Divest Walkout."

Meet Rachel Spraker (she/they), assistant vice president of equity and inclusive excellence at the University of Virginia, and one of fifteen staff members in the university's Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

Meet Dr. Lanice Avery, assistant professor in the departments of psychology and women, gender, and sexuality, whose work as a "board-certified sexologist" conforms to the intersectional-oppression paradigm that is increasingly prevalent at UVA.