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Rachel Spraker (she/they) is the Assistant Vice President for Equity and Inclusive Excellence with the Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Virginia. Here she is discussing Allyhood and the Toxicity of Whiteness. Just another example of the

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Board member Bert Ellis tries to discuss attacks on UVA's Jewish students at the Board of Visitors meeting today. He is told he is out of order and to stop talking by Rector Hardie and President Ryan who state that it will be addressed in “private session.” This is what passes

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Meet Dr. Tiffany King. She is a tenured professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Women, Sexuality and Gender. In this supercut, you will see some of her craziest takes, but stick around as we examine more. "We actually need to crash the U.S. settler state." "I'm

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If you believe in our work and in the importance of Thomas Jefferson's legacy, please consider joining the Jefferson Council.

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We hope the Board of Visitors remember what Paul C. Harris said yesterday, "I would like to see this University devote its resources to building bridges across the issues that divide us rather than searching through stacks in the library to find human imperfections of past

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Many concerned alumni and students have reached out to us. We are keeping an eye on UVA's Encampment for Gaza and monitoring social media. At this time, we are putting our faith and trust in @presjimryan . From what we have seen and heard, @UVAPolice is doing an exceptional job

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At last week's Faculty Senate, Professor Peter Abramenko stated that "leadership of our university was completely justified in what they were doing." He was stunned that the majority of his colleagues want to blame UVA leadership and won't say "one word of criticism" about how

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Gabe Kaminsky @gekaminsky discusses with Ben Shapiro @benshapiro how UVA's internal review saw nothing wrong with Professor Tessa Farmer offering extra credit to students who attended a pro-Hamas rally five days after October 7th. UVA's DEI staff downplayed parental concerns as

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It has come to our attention that Professor Oludamini Ogunnaike has resigned from the University of Virginia’s Religious Diversity Task Force, condemning the “irresponsible use of excessive force against my students and colleagues” in shutting down the UVA Solidarity Encampment

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Former UVA professor Jonathan Haidt ( @JonHaidt ) has been measuring whether D.E.I. is producing good or bad outcomes. When he surveys companies, he collects data to measure how employees view their company's procedural fairness and distributive justice. "The only way you could

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Marisa Williamson is an Assistant Art Professor at the University of Virginia. She works around themes of “history, race, feminism, and technology.” Here she is discussing Thomas Jefferson, CRT, Whiteness, Colonialism, how Beauty is Oppressive, and "Dicks in the Sky."

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@IfeanyichiUdaya The footage is from a podcast that UVA DEI Admin were featured on. The Jefferson Council is composed of UVA Alum that actively highlight the insanity at UVA.

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UVA's Chief of Police, Tim Longo, explains that people affiliated with the encampment at the University of Virginia had brought construction materials into the camp to build fortifications. Similar barriers had been seen at other schools where they "were used to establish a fixed

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Social Scientist Dr. Wilfred Reilly ( @wil_da_beast630 ) recently discussed with @peterboghossian and @buttonslives how "proportional representation regardless of performance" is one of the greater societal threats. Reilly wonders how much of an increase in medical

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For more on this, please read Kaminsky's most recent article about UVA!

University of Virginia DEI staff privately downplayed professor’s pro-Hamas rally extra credit...

DEI staffers at the University of Virginia sought to downplay concerns over a professor offering students extra credit to attend a pro-Palestinian rally.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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An important clarification made today during UVA's virtual town hall was the breakdown of those arrested on Saturday at the UVA Encampment. "In total, twenty-seven individuals were arrested that day. Twelve of them were students. Eight were unaffiliated, not related, or part of

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Kevin McDonald is the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Community Partnerships at the University of Virginia. Here he is talking about the daily "trauma" of seeing statues depicting George Rogers Clark, Sacagawea, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark. McDonald

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King believes that the Palestinian Resistance inspires Black and Indigenous feminists to “crash the U.S. settler state.” “There is a certain kind of clarity that the resistance, the ongoing resistance in Palestine, is making very concrete and palpable for us as Black and

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On the @charliekirk11 show today, Citizen Kane @CitizenFreePres discussed the new findings from @open_the_books exposing how the University of Virginia spends $20 Million per year on 235 DEI employees. Some salaries are as high as $587,340 per year!

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This supercut was made for the Jefferson Council's 3rd Annual Meeting which was a huge success. See firsthand the Insanity at the University of Virginia: DEI on Steroids, Hatred for the Founding Fathers, A.I. run amok, and more!

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"If you haven't realized by now that DEI is a grift, let me just take you to school, specifically the University of Virginia..."

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John and Jim are talking about the movement at UVA to remove Edwin Anderson Alderman’s name from the library. As president of the University of Virginia between 1904 and 1931, Alderman led Thomas Jefferson’s university into the 21st century. Current UVA President, Jim Ryan was

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We think UVA students could learn a thing or two from @PamelaParesky "I want to start by reminding people of something that they may not have been thinking about, which is that the chants, 'Jews will not replace us' and 'From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free' mean

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Looks like an encampment protesting the Israel-Hamas war is starting @UVA . Chants include “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Free, free Palestine.” About half a dozen tents have been set up so far. @USATODAY

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Stanford's Professor Stephen Haber has spent years researching how universities with growing administrative bureaucracies often implement bias reporting systems to lessen student "discomfort." Haber argues that this is a threat to not only academic freedom and expression, but

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One of the pillars of the Jefferson Council is to preserve the Jefferson Legacy at the University of Virginia. In practice, it means documenting and arguing against the "Presentism" that so many at the university preach when advocating for the removal of the Thomas Jefferson

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One clue into King’s thinking is her endorsement of the work of Melanie Yazzie. Yazzie, a University of Minnesota professor and an intersectional studies collective member of King’s Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute (BIFFI) group, went viral earlier this year for

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Happy Birthday Mr. Jefferson!

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The Jefferson Council, formed by University of Virginia alumni and other stakeholders, is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Thomas Jefferson, the Lawn, the Honor Code, and the free exchange of competing ideas and intellectual diversity one would expect from Mr. Jefferson’s

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On Wednesday, Scott Johnston explained how the University of Virginia is late in drafting up new rules to comply with Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares' request concerning unlawful masking and campus protests. Scott hammers home the point that "rules mean nothing if

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Did you know that the University of Virginia has practically one employee for every undergraduate and graduate student? Adam Andrzejewski ( @everydimeonline ) discussed this "payroll bloat" with us on a recent Jefferson Council webinar. We are thankful for Adam and his team at

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Many worry that UVA's administration is engaged in a sustained war against Greek Life. These fears have grown after a Theta Chi member shared an audio recording of Donovan Golich, the assistant director of accountability in Student Affairs, during a student interrogation.

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The Board of Visitors met today to discuss many different topics. A few Board Members had questions for the Academic and Student Life Committee regarding anti-Semitism at the University of Virginia.

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More DEI Insanity from Rachel Spraker, the Assistant Vice President for Equity and Inclusive Excellence at the University of Virginia. Here she is discussing "white emotionality." "I'm a Queer White Settler. There's stuff that comes up for me in terms of you know all that we

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A UVA student, Conor, discusses how students are worried about retaliation from faculty and suffering academicly for expressing ideas that go against what is being taught in the classroom. If you are a UVA Student, has this been your experience with the university?

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Dr. Jay Greene ( @jaypgreene ) and James Paul's ( @james_d_paul ) 2021 study, Diversity University: DEI Bloat in the Academy, examined D.E.I. efforts at "65 universities representing 16 percent of all students in four-year institutions in the United States." These 65 universities are

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Rose Markey, who is part of UVA's Human Resources department, uses A.I. to help her create DEI Trainings. If Markey doesn't know a specific DEI term, like Inclusive Communication, she lets ChatGPT tell her what it means. Rose Markey made $140,370.00 in 2023.

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King discusses how her students are “fierce organizers” who are organizing Palestinian Liberation week at the University of Virginia. “It’s our origins to trying to create these formations to think about diaspora and solidarities in our own work and thinking about how we use

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The Jefferson Council and our friends in the media and elsewhere have been making quite a bit of news of late. Watch and find out!

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“With head counts in the hundreds and spending estimated at $20 million per year, the DEI infrastructure at UVA is funded with the equivalent of nearly 1,000 students paying tuition,” Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski @everydimeonline said. “Those are dollars not spent

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EXCLUSIVE via @gekaminsky @breccanfthies : Taxpayers help foot estimated $20M for DEI at University of Virginia. @dcexamniner #FiscalTransparency #OpenTheBooks #TransparencyMatters #TruthMatters #DEI #TransparencyRevolution #GovernmentAccountability #UVA

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UVA doesn’t get off the hook in her view. In this clip, King notes that Sonia Alconini and Kasey Jernigan, co-directors of the Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute, a Mellon-Funded Intersectional Studies Collective at UVA, couldn’t make an appearance at the symposium.

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King sees the Palestinian “struggle” against Israel as entwined with anti-colonial struggles everywhere, including inside the United States. “There’s something about the relationship between the U.S. and Israel that we always have to come back home. It’s here, right, it’s here,

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Listen to this UVA Parent describe all the different instances of Anti-Semitism on campus. "You got all these things happening and the administration is just not doing anything."

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Christa Robbins teaches Art History at the University of Virginia. On Feb. 26, she canceled class to show solidarity with the “Yes on Divest Walkout.” The walkout organizers endorse a student referendum demanding that managers of the University of Virginia $14 billion endowment

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Dr. Tabia Lee ( @11Drtlee11 ) beautifully explains how alumni and trustees can positively impact colleges and universities to ensure free thinking, viewpoint diversity, critical thinking, the celebration of pluralism, and American values are protected on campus. "Many boards of

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This is a must watch video! @goACTA 's @sfmcguire79 discusses Stanford's encampment, which predated the current wave of encampments and lasted over 100 days. The selective allowance of this encampment meant the rights of other students were violated. "They have all of these

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The concept of Settler Colonialism doesn’t apply just to Israel, the United States, or UVA — it extends even to the source of her foundation grants. By the mere fact of soliciting proposals, the Mellon Foundation engages in “a closed settler colonial formation.” Hey @MellonFdn ,

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We want to commend UVA alum @KevinGuskiewicz , who is also the President of Michigan State University and Chancellor Emeritus of UNC. Last night, Guskiewicz was targeted by UNC SJP, who attempted to intimidate him as he enjoyed a stroll through campus. Guskiewicz was more than

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All week, we will be examining issues related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in medicine. There is a massive topic, and throughout the week we hope to give people at least a basic understanding of some of the issues policy experts are worried about. Dr. Nche Zama explains

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If you believe in our work and in the importance of Thomas Jefferson's legacy, please consider joining the Jefferson Council.

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This is such a great clip where so much happens in two minutes. Here are the points that we hope you focus on. Rep. Tim Walberg lays out some of the many incidents at the University of Virginia for Professor Mark Rienzi, Co-Director of Catholic Law's Center for Religious

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King says she feels protected by tenure but worries about her safety at the institution. She refers to students who contacted the UVA administration — “snitched” in her words — about feeling uncomfortable with what she teaches. Regardless, she plans to continue. “I’m trying to

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We are pleased to announce that our July webinar is with UVA sociology professor Brad Wilcox ( @BradWilcoxIFS ). Wilcox argues that the data is overwhelming: married people live longer, healthier, and happier lives compared to their unmarried peers. If marriage is such a net

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Sly Mata is the Director of Diversity Education at the University of Virginia. In one of his DEI classes on Difficult Conversations, he admitted that UVA isn't doing enough to facilitate productive dialogue regarding the Israel-Hamas War on campus and how the university is

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Are you attending the Jefferson Council's 3rd Annual Meeting on April 9th? If so, you can hear OpenTheBooks' Adam Andrzejewski @everydimeonline present his groundbreaking research on the millions of dollars that fund UVA's DEI insanity. For more on the Annual Meeting, please go

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One of the Jefferson Council's pillars is to "promote a culture of civil dialogue, the free exchange of competing ideas, and intellectual diversity throughout the university." Professor @BradWilcoxIFS shared with us recently that he "lost at every level of the tenure process"

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UVA Health organized multiple events this month around the theme of "Racial Healing: The Heart of Racial Equity". In practice, these events often looked like Maoist Struggle Sessions. Watch a frequent UVA Community Partner, Gene Cash of the Counseling Alliance of Virginia

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The Jefferson Council's Executive Committee has penned an open letter to @GovernorVA encouraging him to pick fighters for the UVA Board. "You need to nominate fighters willing to ask hard questions and shrug when their names are dragged through the mud. Don’t appoint passive

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Enjoy as Professor @KevinGutzman explains how Thomas Jefferson wanted to see all Virginians receive a proper education. Jefferson hoped to see the best and brightest attend a "reformed College of William and Mary" and be prepared for leadership. Thankfully, W&M didn't work out;

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If it weren't for our FOIA Requests, you wouldn't be seeing this. This video was created by UVA Acts, a program that runs out of the Office of the Provost. It hires professional playwrights and recruits actors to produce high-quality videos to explore social justice and other

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One of the more interesting moments from yesterday's BOV meeting was Board Member James B. Murray Jr.'s thoughts on UVA's Pan-University Entrepreneurship Initiative. "I really don't think government money can create a great entrepreneur any better than it can create a great

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Courses are underway at UVA! We hope that students start this year by listening to Africa Brooke's advice about self-censorship. "We have come to a point where we just casually agree with things that we don't actually agree with, and we don't really see it as a problem because

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We do know that the Fraternal Organization Agreement (FOA) between Theta Chi and the University was terminated and that the Theta Chi brothers were forbidden to reconstitute themselves in another form. We know that nine other Greek organizations (and two student clubs) have been

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If it weren't for our FOIA Requests, you wouldn't be seeing this. This video was created by UVA Acts, a program that runs out of the Office of the Provost. It hires professional playwrights and recruits actors to produce high-quality videos to explore social justice and other

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UVA's Marian Toledo Candelaria is the Manager for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Virginia. She think DEI is "a foundation on which you build any discipline you need to build." "But one thing I've started doing was substituting the he and she [pronouns]

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However, Guskiewicz's body language says it all. He was happy to engage in debate with these students. Kudos to you Kevin G for not hiding in the Ivory Tower like so many other college administrators. Hopefully some of these students learned a thing or two about civil discourse

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UVA's Jewish Students are suffering. Please take some time today to hear firsthand experiences and then sign Jefferson Council President Tom Neale's petition: Support UVA Jewish students who are being harassed and Israel.

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Last week during the Board of Visitors meeting, the Jefferson Council presented the BOV with a Fall Welcome Brief, which included resources on UVA's unsustainable tuition model, a plan to reinvigorate the Honor Code, a critique of UVA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practices,

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We simply love this video celebrating UVA Professor Mary Kate Cary, who recently won the 2024 Leadership Award from Heterodox Academy! Thank you, @HdxAcademy , for not only honoring Professor @mkcary but featuring her in this excellent promo video!

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The Jefferson Council had the honor of being featured in the @DailyCaller 's new documentary, Demand for Hate. Enjoy this brief clip featuring the Jefferson Council's President Tom Neale and Contributing Editor Jim Bacon. Demand for Hate is streaming now on The Daily

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In the fall of 2021, a statue of Thomas Jefferson was removed from City Hall in New York City. One council member said the statue of Jefferson was taken down because he does not represent "contemporary values." The University of Virginia has been plagued with similar calls for

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On a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Podcast, Rogan's producer asked him if he saw a virial tweet about the ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776. Rogan didn't, but he guesses that they were likely in their thirties. Rogan is blown away to learn how young many of the

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Will standardized tests, like the SAT and ACT, return to UVA? During today's Board of Visitors meeting, Provost Ian Baucom mentioned that a group of econ professors will research and advise UVA "on whether to return to requiring standardized tests in our admission processes."

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Although UVA livestreams their Board of Visitors meetings, these recordings are not permanent and unavailable for later viewing. Further, these recordings cannot be FOIA'ed. In our desire for a more transparent UVA, we make our copy available to the public for posterity's sake.

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Sharing an Instagram post from Students for Justice in Palestine is not a good look for a Student Council president, especially after SJP has charged an Israeli student with the Honor Offense of lying.

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President Ryan discussed how past inactions regarding Unite the Right influenced fears he had that inaction regarding the encampment would lead to "50 tents, or seventy-five tents, and with twenty outsiders." "It's risky to act at any particular point, but it's also risky to sit

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In regards to No Trespass Orders Students will be allowed to "take their exams, participate in final exercises, stay in their dormitory placement." The No Trespass Order will carry through the summer but once again be lifted for the fall semester. Longo explains how No Trespass

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The Jefferson Council's Contributing Editor, Jim Bacon was interviewed by the Daily Caller recently and discussed how D.E.I. took over the University of Virginia.

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How did DEI become so prevalent in our colleges and institutions? Stream 'Demand For Hate' Exclusively at

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The University of Virginia Board of Visitors took up the controversial issue Thursday of renaming the Alderman Library to the Edgar Shannon Library. Two board members expressed sharp objections to name change, but the Building & Grounds Committee voted to advance a resolution

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@Belondyy The Jefferson Council, formed by University of Virginia alumni and other stakeholders, is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Thomas Jefferson, the Lawn, the Honor Code, and the free exchange of competing ideas and intellectual diversity one would expect from Mr. Jefferson’s

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One of the more daring ways to implement reform in higher education was to simply start a new university. Dr. Pano Kanelos, the founding president of the University of Austin, explains the "schizophrenia" that impacts modern universities and the importance of knowledge seeking to

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The topic of divestment came up at UVA's Board of Visitors meeting. “We are not divesting from any investments,” said Kristina Alimard, chief financial officer. “Our goal is to generate strong investment returns for the University.” This was in response to a student referendum

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Kevin Gutzman ( @KevinGutzman ), a history professor at Western Connecticut State University and a Double Hoo, explains Thomas Jefferson's tremendous impact on higher education and how "every university, with a couple of exceptions, in America is a little University of Virginia."

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UVA's Marian Toledo Candelaria is the Manager for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Virginia. She explains how UVA's Job Postings aren't "Gender Inclusive" enough. She uses a website to test job postings at the School of Education and they are "gendered

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We are pleased to announce that our July webinar is with UVA sociology professor Brad Wilcox ( @BradWilcoxIFS ). Wilcox argues that the data is overwhelming: married people live longer, healthier, and happier lives compared to their unmarried peers. Professor Wilcox's data shows us

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On Tuesday, a Virginia Senate committee held a hearing focused on how several Virginia colleges and universities responded to "campus demonstrations" related to the Israel-Hamas War. Our thread will focus on the University of Virginia, but will examine some other moments. 🧵

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Tents are up again at the @UVA Encampment.

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Can you name the University of Virginia's 10 highest-paid employees? Did you know they all got raises this year? You know UVA has an affordability problem when the @cavalierdaily starts scrutinizing salaries and uses terms like "administrative bloat." We highly recommend this

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The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia held a special meeting from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Friday, May 10, 2024. The purpose of this meeting was to brief the Board on safety and security planning and emergency response and recovery related to a demonstration and

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#FromTheTJCBlog Check out our new post: With the Tents Down, the Blowback Begins. by James A. Bacon Following the decision to take down the tents in the UVA Solidarity Encampment for Gaza “liberated zone” at the University of... #UVA #TheJeffersonCouncil

With the Tents Down, the Blowback Begins

by James A. Bacon Following the decision to take down the tents in the UVA Solidarity Encampment for Gaza “liberated zone” at the University of Virginia Saturday, UVA President Jim Ryan…

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Professor Jonathan Haidt, better known around Charlottesville as "the one that got away from UVA" was on the very popular Huberman Lab Podcast this week. "There's an important psychological word called effectance made up by White in the 1950s. Effectance is the desire to be a

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Are you attending the Jefferson Council's 3rd Annual Meeting on April 9th? If so, you can hear OpenTheBooks' Adam Andrzejewski present his groundbreaking research on the millions of dollars that fund UVA's DEI insanity. For more on the Annual Meeting, please go here!

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Francesca Block ( @FrancescaABlock ) of @TheFP details how due process, or lack thereof, impacts students at Stanford. "This process actually has a profound impact as well on student mental health. So to describe a little bit of my work, I wrote a story that focused mostly on

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Bert Ellis started off by discussing the importance of discourse and how it should always remain civil. However, UVA's Chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine will not allow civil discourse. Ellis is shocked that the Board won't condemn that or do anything about how the

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#FromTheTJCBlog Check out our new post: DEI Scrutiny Spreads. Open the Books’ expose on DEI costs at the University of Virginia is generating loads of attention. The Daily Mail published a lengthy story here, adding some of its... #UVA #TheJeffersonCouncil

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scrutiny Spreads

OpenTheBooks’ exposé on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) costs at the University of Virginia is generating loads of attention. The Daily Mail published a lengthy story here, adding some…

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For more on Williamson, please read our newest article, In Their Own Words: Jefferson, Whiteness, and Dicks in the Sky, which presents her scholarship in her own words.

In Their Own Words: Jefferson, Whiteness, and Dicks in the Sky

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 R…

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Douglas D. Wetmore spoke first and described the Student Council's BDS referendum as "one of the most shameful things that has ever happened in the history of the university." Wetmore discussed how for months now that Board Members have been receiving emails from concerned

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Dr. Blum discusses the problem with physicians self-censoring themselves and the negative impact this is having on patient care. "If an attending physician cannot tell a resident that they need to show up on time for rounds because they are afraid that being on time is 'a

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Thank you @MailOnline for covering this very important story! UVA's Spokesperson, Brian Coy, "would not say how much UVA actually spends on DEI."

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University of Virginia EXPOSED for $20M annual DEI spend on 235 staff, including $243,000-a-year equity tsar who calls OxyContin deaths payback for the 'toxicity of whiteness,' watchdog says

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#FromTheTJCBlog Check out our new post: Anatomy of an Intellectual Monoculture. by James A. Bacon University of Virginia employees who donated to Democratic Party candidates between 2017 and 2022 outnumbered Republican donors... #UVA #TheJeffersonCouncil

Anatomy of an Intellectual Monoculture

by James A. Bacon University of Virginia employees who donated to Democratic Party candidates between 2017 and 2022 outnumbered Republican donors by an 18-to-one ratio, reports a National Associati…

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