Tag: University of Virginia
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Militants to Ryan Administration: “Bullshit”
by James A. Bacon Pro-Palestinian militants erected tents last night at their “liberation zone for Gaza” near the University of Virginia chapel in defiance of orders to take them down. The administration’s immediate response: engage in dialogue. “We are writing to acknowledge the document you shared with us early this morning outlining the interests of…
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At UVA, One Pro-Palestinian Protest Disperses, a Second Persists
by James A. Bacon One of two pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the University of Virginia wound down around 5 p.m. yesterday without incident. Although the rally was marked by all-too-familiar anti-Israel chants and sloganeering, protesters dispersed at the scheduled time. A parallel demonstration, a tent-free “encampment,” continues this morning. University officials set clear expectations from…
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Amid Arrests on Other Campuses, Tensions Mount at UVA
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… pic.twitter.com/iGoXUylU9Z — The Jefferson Council (@TheJeffersonC)…
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A Creative New Way to Use Children as Human Shields
BREAKING: The Encampment at Virginia Tech has been told that they will be arrested if they don’t disperse. They are pleading with the administration to not arrest anyone because children are present. “Do our children scare you?” pic.twitter.com/eAiZkWsn3T — Stu (@thestustustudio) April 28, 2024 Stu Smith, producer of StuStuStudios, captured this video yesterday from the…
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Virginia Tech Cleans up Encampment. UVA Faces Similar Test.
by James A. Bacon Virginia Tech arrested two dozen or more students Sunday night while dispersing an “encampment” similar to other anti-Israeli protests spreading around the country, according to media reports. The gathering of several hundred people on the lawn of the Graduate Life Center was “not a registered event consistent with university policy,” Tech…
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Extensive Plagiarism Alleged for UVA PhD Dissertation
by James A. Bacon Natalie J. Perry, who now leads a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program at UCLA, plagiarized long passages in her PhD dissertation at UVA, allege Luke Rosiak and Christopher F. Rufo in The Daily Wire. In describing the plagiarism in Perry’s dissertation, “Faculty Perceptions of Diversity at a Highly Selective Research-Intensive University,”…
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UVA Report Finds No Pay Inequity for Black, Hispanic Profs
by James A. Bacon The Racial Equity Task Force, a 2020 document that transformed governance at the University of Virginia, listed 12 top priorities for addressing the legacy of historical racism. One was to address “serious challenges to racial equity in staff hiring, wages, retention, promotion, and procurement” by auditing where policies and procedures might…
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Jewish Parents Decry Double Standards at UVA
by James A. Bacon A half year after Hamas terrorists assaulted Israel, hostility at the University of Virginia toward Israel and Jews is unrelenting, according to parents of Jewish students there. In collaboration with other parents, Julie Pearl complained in a letter Tuesday to Rector Robert Hardie that a “blatant double standard against Jewish students…
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UVA As a “Maze of Predatory Systems”
by James A. Bacon If you visit the latest exhibit at the University of Virginia’s Ruffin Gallery, “EscapeRoom,” it takes no more than five or ten seconds for the artists’ message to sink in — the amount of time it takes to read the signage at the entrance: The University of Virginia (UVA) is a…
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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 “history, race, feminism, and technology,” according to her UVA faculty page. Most recently, she co-curated the EscapeRoom exhibition at the Ruffin Gallery, which we highlight in a companion article.…
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University of Virginia Spends $20 Million On 235 DEI Employees, With Some Making $587,340 Per Year
It takes tuition payments from nearly 1,000 undergraduates just to pay their base salaries! Bacon’s Rebellion is reposting this article published by Open the Books, a nonprofit group dedicated to transparency in government spending, and republished on the Jefferson Council blog. Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski will speak at the Jefferson Council 3rd annual…
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UVA Leadership Squelches Debate About University’s Antisemitism Problem
by James A. Bacon During the University of Virginia Board of Visitors meeting Thursday, Provost Ian Baucom briefed board members on what the administration was doing to defuse tensions in the UVA community between Jews and the vocal pro-Palestinian faction over the Israel-Gaza war. He mentioned “sustained academic programming” to illuminate sources of the decades-long conflict. He…
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In Their Own Words: Lanice Avery
Editor’s Note: To document the spread of “wokeness” — short-hand to describe the philosophy of intersectional oppression — The Jefferson Council has begun publishing profiles of University of Virginia faculty members in their own words. Not our words. Not our spin. Not our interpretation. Their words. — JAB Assistant Professor Lanice Avery has a…
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The Purge Comes for Edwin Alderman
by James A. Bacon As President of the University of Virginia between 1904 and 1931, Edwin Anderson Alderman led Thomas Jefferson’s university into the 20th century. A self-proclaimed “progressive” of the Woodrow Wilson stamp, he advocated higher taxes to support public education, admitted the first women into UVA graduate programs, boosted enrollment and faculty hiring,…
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“Enacting Racial Change by Design”
by James A. Bacon The backlash against Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in higher-ed and the corporate world may be gathering momentum across the country, but the University of Virginia is rolling out a new DEI initiative oblivious to the shift in the national mood. UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences has launched a program this…