This University was built on student self-governance, and a University governed by alumni cannot stand.
Transparency is the foundation of trust, and without trust, the University community will not be able to unite and move forward towards the bright future it deserves.
It is time for our Board of Visitors to recognize the moment they in part created and still perpetuate with their general exclusion of students from the presidential search committee.
Departmental budgets, staff and course offerings in the humanities will be tightened, while curricular innovation moves elsewhere. This shift tilts the University’s identity away from its liberal arts foundations.
Lawyers, financiers, teachers, students and, yes, Olympic swimmers belong on the search committee. But, surely, faculty members who carry out a core mission of the University belong there, too.
Virginia must remember that, in this new era of college athletics, success will depend not just on attracting talent, but on keeping it.
Following this resignation, The Cavalier Daily has received letters from the University community which provide various perspectives on what this moment means to them and to the University’s future.
As it stands, students will be returning to Grounds with no concrete sense of who will be at the helm of this institution and little reason to trust the governing body, which has made no attempt to explain or justify its actions.
While gender-affirming care is one of the biggest ways U.Va. Health is falling short, it is not the only one.
As scholars and teachers, we know that dissent and debate strengthen our intellectual commitments and moral judgments rather than threaten them. We reject any attempt to deny these basic truths.
With a new class of students arriving in August, Corner restaurants will face another test of their price discrimination and thus need to learn LittleJohn’s lesson quickly.
We call on the Board to collaborate closely with faculty in appointing an Interim President to guide the university through this perilous time.
The sealing law is one step to help place Virginia back on this path of treating its felons as equal citizens but it cannot be the last step.
Specifically, the reduction of funds in public transportation may leave University students stranded without convenient means of transport. But more broadly, the environmental impacts which deregulation may have are long-lasting.
To yield in the face of federal pressure does more than betray the University’s core values — it encourages future attacks on academia.
This University belongs to the people of Virginia — not to Washington, not to unelected federal appointees and certainly not to political donors with an agenda. This is our University. And we will fight for it.
It is essential that each and every one of us are vocal in our opposition towards any president who is unwilling to stand up for us and the integrity of the University.
The University is the first institution to lose their president as a result of dramatic and unprecedented federal intervention. But we will not be the last.
Youngkin cannot be held responsible for the attacks like that in Culpeper, but he can play a powerful role in preventing this disease of hatred from spreading.
Though these resources are a step in the right direction, the consistent difficulties in attaining work experience for many students serves to show that the Career Center must continue to expand its offerings to students.
