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.

The Jefferson Council is very pleased to announce that Joel Gardner has agreed to succeed Tom Neale as the president of The Jefferson Council.

“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.

Jed Atkins, head of the Chapel Hill campus’s new School of Civic Life and Leadership, wants to teach students to be tolerant, in an old-school way.

The College Fix contributor Colleen Dean quotes The Jefferson Council President Tom Neale: "We made the board aware of this three years ago."

The Cavalier Daily's Thomas Baxter and Ford McCracken: That accountability process was on display in an audio recording of Golich leaked last week by alumni group The Jefferson Council — an organization with the stated mission of preserving the legacy of Thomas Jefferson at the University.

Jim Bacon: If this emerging paradigm is correct, UVA and other higher-ed institutions are taking a generation of students coddled by parents and K-12 schools to begin with and making things worse.

Furman alumnus Evan Myers writes a guest commentary in The Post and Currier, highlighting the need for alumni to hold their administration accountable for protecting and promoting free speech on campus. What can we glean for UVA?

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.