Category: DEI
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Harvard History Professor to Lead Monticello
by James C. Sherlock She is certainly qualified. On Oct. 17 the Thomas Jefferson Foundation announced that Jane Kamensky, Harvard history professor and director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, will be the next president of Monticello. From an interview with Harvard Crimson. “The combination of celebration, commemoration, and reckoning…
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Crime and Punishment in Charlottesville
by James C. Sherlock UVa and Harvard are the two campuses most often cited by the national and world press as homes to the worst actors after October 7. It is easy work. I posted a column on Saturday making a series of recommendations for actions by the University of Virginia to protect its Jewish…
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Another Race Institute at UVa
by James C. Sherlock Fund it and they will come. The Daily Progress reports that thanks to a $4.9 million gift from an anonymous philanthropist, a new “Institute” has been launched at UVa’s School of Law. The new organization, the Education Rights Institute, plans to “find ways to improve K-12 education and help educators address…
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Woke Bloat at Virginia Universities
by James A. Bacon Step aside California! Public universities in Virginia have built larger diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies than taxpayer-funded universities in any other state, concludes a new backgrounder by The Heritage Foundation. The DEI bureaucracy at the University of Virginia includes 94 employees listed on its website, says the report. Virginia Tech…
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Blue on Blue
Monica Lisle, a long-serving Alexandria police captain, has charged the city’s police chief with denying her a promotion to assistant chief by stacking the deck against her in favor of Black candidates in order to “fill certain unannounced racial quotas.” As Lisle wrote in an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint last year, according to The…
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Tech to End Racial and Legacy Preferences in Admissions
by James A. Bacon In the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Virginia Tech has announced that it will eliminate race and legacy status as factors in admissions. Information about an individual’s race/ethnicity will no longer be visible during the application process. “Much of our recent success in attracting and graduating students from underrepresented…
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Can Virginia Republicans Find 500,000 Votes?
by Shaun Kenney Back in November 2019, the Commonwealth of Kentucky was well on its way to being a blue state. That is, until the state’s Republican leadership saw the trend and decided to do something about it. Aided by terrible Biden numbers, Kentucky’s GOP reversed the decline in short order: If you’re like myself,…
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Anti-Asian Discrimination is Condoned in Fairfax County
by Carl Noller People have been coming to America for centuries, many of them drawn by the opportunities this country offered. It was less who you knew or who you could bribe and more what you knew. Martin Luther King may have put it best when he encouraged us to judge others by the content…
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Setting the Stage for the Great Race-in-Admissions Debate
by James A. Bacon People have been asking me what I think about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting colleges and universities from using race as a specific basis for admitting students. I’m not a legal scholar, so I won’t offer any opinions on the legal or constitutional merits of the decision. I speak as…
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A Simple Statement of Fact about the Public Schools
by James C. Sherlock I know. Schools. Again. But Virginia’s schools have been shown to be getting worse faster than those of other states. Perhaps we should do something. Read the National Assessment Board’s press release from June 21st. One paragraph drew my attention: The LTT assessments in reading and math measure fundamental skills among nationally…
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Virginia: Look West To See What’s Coming
by Kerry Dougherty Reason #5,692 not to vote for ANY Democrats running for the General Assembly this fall: We all know that Virginia’s leftists in Richmond yearn for our lovely commonwealth to be more like California. When last they controlled the state legislature these nuts directly tethered our energy policies to that “progressive” utopia. It…
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VMI’s DEI Chief Resigns — “Vitriolic” VMI Critics Implicated
by James A. Bacon Virginia Military Institute’s chief diversity officer, Jamica Love, has resigned nearly two years after taking on the job of implementing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at the military institute. While Superintendent Cedric T. Wins noted that Love served with distinction and professionalism, VMI gave no reason for her resignation. She has issued…
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Back in Vogue at UVa: Viewpoint Diversity
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia leadership normally keeps its Board of Visitors meetings running on such a tightly scripted schedule that board members rarely get an opportunity to engage in free-wheeling discussion. But Rector Whitt Clement and President Jim Ryan made an exception Friday during the board’s June meeting: they set aside…
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UVa’s Undergraduate Female/Male Demographics vs. Diversity, Equity and Federal Law
by James C. Sherlock The University of Virginia measures its diversity efforts by statistics. We’ll hold them to their own standards. That seems only equitable. President Ryan has said that the demographic composition of students is easy to measure. The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office, proving him right, proudly displays a Diversity Dashboard. All eyes,…
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UVa President Ryan Has “No Idea.” Golly Gee.
by James C. Sherlock As a follow-up to yesterday’s story on the slide show for the UVa Board of Visitors on DEI at the University, I think it only fair to offer President Ryan’s preamble to that presentation. To summarize: He cannot imagine what all the fuss is about; but He assures that DEI efforts…