We hope for greater transparency because for the principles of solidarity in this statement to be enacted and effective, stakeholders must be treated as partners in resistance.
By withdrawing its competing bid and endorsing the Charlottesville City Schools’ bid, the University has a high-profile opportunity to strengthen its partnership with Charlottesville City Schools.
We must applaud the University for the efforts they are continuously making to be more sustainable.
While VERVE may shift student demand closer to Grounds, whether housing market effects will outweigh the harms of the University’s expanding presence is a gamble Charlottesville residents may not wish to take.
I pray that we will not persecute now and atone later.
While the department’s pursuit of curricular innovation is commendable, the implementation approach raises serious ethical concerns.
Given the tenuous connection to battling antisemitism, we are left to assume that the Trump administration is actually interested in censoring a certain set of departments which promote multiculturalism and global literacy.
With a longer-term view, it is clear that the College at Wise has held a good track record of growth, and one blip is not cause for concern for the University’s regional campuses.
This appearance gives a fooling impression that Inclusive Access is the cheapest, best option for students, when in reality, the program is misleading in cost, accessibility and privacy.
Resisting an unjust system should be at the forefront of university policy.
The unwilling departure of the FEI from Charlottesville represents the severing of a constructive accord between the government and the University.
In this uncertain environment, the University must act creatively and strategically to ensure it can maintain its commitment to affordability.
This has grown into a pattern of failing the rights of noncitizens to due process and overstepping judicial checks and balances on the executive branch.
Adding more stringent security measures will not solve the underlying issue, which is that schools must do more to invest in students’ mental health.
In this sense, neglecting to publicize the report itself further erodes public trust in U.Va. Health.
These materials are paramount to teaching civics in the state, and officials must take due care to ensure any funding cuts will not hamper access to them.
Casteen may be best remembered as the founder of AccessUVA, a scholarship program to support undergraduate students whose qualifications were excellent, but whose families would be hard pressed to afford college tuition.
Perhaps, it may seem as though the University is hosting a decent amount of events, and criticisms of its engagement or genuineness sound nitpicky.
Each student, employee, faculty member and University and Charlottesville community member deserves to feel safe, a feeling that has been uprooted in the past few weeks.
The bottom line is that an institutional shift has occurred. Today, DEI is done at the University — and we are all worse off because of it.
