The time has come for the Governor and Attorney General to stop abandoning their duty to defend Virginia.
Having six Black persons is an unexpected improvement over past search committees of this stature and importance.
With these recommendations, we wish the University a great and good academic year — a year which will take significant administrative repair to heal this institution after some of its darkest hours.
No number of “listening sessions” or other forms of outreach provide constituencies with the access, accountability and real influence that come with serving on the search committee.
Honor is still a staple of the student vocabulary — just more often as a facetious justification for leaving one’s backpack unattended than as a true rationale for remaining academically honest.
For better or worse, a substantial number of students bring their cars to school every year. The University can either choose to ignore this fact, or they can accommodate their students.
The Board’s actions and inactions as summarized above have generated a great deal of mistrust, widespread concern and indeed fear among our faculty
Our University does not have legal counsel independent from the state government nor, in this case, from the Trump administration.
What follows are a few respectfully proffered suggestions that I think can help you try to restore the University to the greatness it enjoyed when I was a student decades ago.
The lessons from 1997, though brutal to learn, are clear — battling weight cutting requires systemic change. Yet, they are lessons that high schools have failed to grasp.
The self-serving actions of the Board are not just harmful to students and faculty today, but they are harmful to our institution as a whole and the future president who will be invited to lead it.
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.
