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University of Virginia President Jim Ryan speaks during a memorial service on November 19, 2022 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The president of the University of Virginia is resigning following pressure from the Trump administration to step aside amid a Justice Department probe into the school’s diversity practices.
James E. Ryan convened a meeting with his senior leadership on Friday and announced that he would be stepping down, according to a source who attended the UVA Board of Visitors meeting.
The Justice Department had demanded Ryan step down in order to resolve an investigation over the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, according to The New York Times, which was first to report the news of his resignation.
The university’s governing Board of Visitors voted in March to end its DEI office under the Trump administration’s order that U.S. schools end diversity programs or risk losing federal funding. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had praised the decision, saying the board “voted for common sense.”
“DEI is done at the University of Virginia. We stand for the universal truth that everyone is created equal, and opportunity is at the heart of Virginians’ and Americans’ future,” he said in a March 7 news release.
I have no issues with him getting the boot but DEI is far from gone at any university, UVA included.
If Youngkin had any balls at all he would have terminated DEI at Virginia universities like DeSantis did rather than waiting for Trump to do it for him.
Don't kid yourself though, I am willing to bet that no person in the DEI office at UVA was terminated.
The DEI officials were just shuffled around and the office itself was rebranded with some more innocuous sounding title.
As soon as Trump is gone it will be back to business as usual unless Vance is his successor.
So many UVA Hospital’s resident’s personal profile statements read like Peace Corps applications written by an Antifa lieutenant.
Cville and UVA is a pretty area but it is full of Liberals.
