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University of Virginia suspends tours that had come under fire for mentioning Thomas Jefferson's ties to slavery
The University of Virginia suspended a campus tour program that had been criticized for citing school founder Thomas ...
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University of Virginia Students Abandon Jefferson’s Legacy
Earlier this month, the Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia’s student newspaper ... “grounds,” instead of “campus”), ... The president’s patience will likely run out, Rubio ...
Virginia Business2d
DOJ demands University of Virginia prove it’s dismantling DEI
The University of Virginia's president received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division calling for the university to produce audio and video from a closed session of its ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education2d
After Feds Warn U. of Virginia It Is Moving Too Slowly, Board Quickly Rescinds Diversity Goal
Four years ago, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors endorsed a call to double the number of underrepresented faculty ...
Justice Department accuses UVA of failing to dismantle DEI
The letter, posted publicly by the Jefferson Council, said the DOJ has received complaints that UVA is failing in dismantling ...
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Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
He designed Monticello (1769–1809), his plantation home, and his ideal 'academical village' (1817–26), which is still the heart of the University of Virginia. Jefferson's use of an architectural ...
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... During his retirement, he also founded and designed the campus of the University of Virginia. Gravely ill by 1826, he began to slip in and ...