UVA bows to Trump, signs deal with administration

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/22/university-of-virginia-trump-administration-settlement/

Unbelievable. UVA signed the “settlement” agreement with the trump administration.

[Anonymous]

Read the article. They didn't bow. DOJ is positioning a nothingburger as a win.

Reading comprehension, folks!

[Anonymous]

Oof. I really hoped they were going to resist and not bed the knee. Disappointing.

[Anonymous]

Link to the DOJ announcement: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-agreement-university-virginia-0

Essentially, UVA agrees that they aren't breaking the law and gives quarterly updates reiterating that they still aren't breaking the law. DOJ stops investigating them. Yawn.

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement with the University of Virginia (“UVA”) that will protect UVA’s students, faculty, and employees from violations of federal civil rights laws, including from discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin.

As part of the agreement, the University of Virginia agrees to be bound by the Department of Justice’s “Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination,” ensuring that UVA does not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities. UVA will provide relevant information and data to the Department of Justice on a quarterly basis through 2028. The President of UVA will personally certify each quarter that UVA is in compliance with the agreement. The Department will pause its pending investigations into the university’s admissions policies and other civil rights concerns. The United States shall treat UVA as eligible for future grants and awards. If UVA completes its planned reforms prohibiting DEI at the university, the Department will close its investigations against UVA.

“This notable agreement with the University of Virginia will protect students and faculty from unlawful discrimination, ensuring that equal opportunity and fairness are restored,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division. “We appreciate the progress that the university has made in combatting antisemitism and racial bias, and other American universities should be on alert that the Justice Department will ensure that our federal civil rights laws are enforced for every American, without exception.”

That guidance (Civil Rights Act of 1964, don't use race or proxies in hiring or admissions) : https://links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2Fag%2Fmedia%2F1409486%2Fdl%3Finline=%26utm_medium=email%26utm_source=govdelivery/1/010001985c36b911-61c8d569-6d56-46d7-a035-616d9d8fe7e9-000000/TsIBQqBaWzEOyES8UUgQDNShsWJG3q3R3Tew_gKTTok=416

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oof. I really hoped they were going to resist and not bed the knee. Disappointing.

Please point out where they "bent the knee."

Do people read anymore?

[Anonymous]

I'm sure that Fox News will be telling its ignorant viewers that Trump was the big winner and stuck it to the libs. And they will all believe it because they believe everything they are told about us "radical" "woke" libs.

I thought the president was supposed to try to unite the country? Can we just secede to be away from this sociopathic mafia wanna be loser? Or will the actuarial tables finally catch up to him and his fat backside?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/22/university-of-virginia-trump-administration-settlement/

Unbelievable. UVA signed the “settlement” agreement with the trump administration.

No, it didn’t. Please read before posting. The story you posted has nothing to do with the compact, which UVA said it would not sign a week ago. The article says so in the last paragraph.

The deal in the article you posted says that UVA will work to end DEI discrimination in exchange for which the administration will halt its investigations into the discriminatory DEI practices at UVA which Ryan refused to end, thus resulting in his resignation (which the board gladly took)

[Anonymous]

UVA made FAQs. I'm chuckling reading them. https://federalinfo.virginia.edu/

Did UVA break the law? No.
Will UVA lose research grants? No.
Will there be an external monitor? No.
Does this impact free speech rights? No.
Does UVA have to pay money to the government? No.
Does this impact independence or academic freedom? No.

[Anonymous]

Wait - does this mean UVA won’t give any added admissions consideration / hook, at all, to URMs?

WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait - does this mean UVA won’t give any added admissions consideration / hook, at all, to URMs?

WTF?

They stopped doing that after the 2024 SCOTUS decision. This year, they even removed the "background" essay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait - does this mean UVA won’t give any added admissions consideration / hook, at all, to URMs?

WTF?

They stopped doing that after the 2023 SCOTUS decision. This year, they even removed the "background" essay.

Whoops. It was 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oof. I really hoped they were going to resist and not bed the knee. Disappointing.

Please point out where they "bent the knee."

Do people read anymore?

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[Anonymous]

They really didn’t have a choice if they wanted to stop the investigations and still get federal funding. They simply don’t have the endowment of Harvard et al to fight the administration. I imagine the Cal system will be the next to fall in line.

Disappointing, but not surprising.

[Anonymous]

Yea this is a big nothing but people are too stupid to know the difference

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Link to the DOJ announcement: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-agreement-university-virginia-0

Essentially, UVA agrees that they aren't breaking the law and gives quarterly updates reiterating that they still aren't breaking the law. DOJ stops investigating them. Yawn.

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement with the University of Virginia (“UVA”) that will protect UVA’s students, faculty, and employees from violations of federal civil rights laws, including from discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin.

As part of the agreement, the University of Virginia agrees to be bound by the Department of Justice’s “Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination,” ensuring that UVA does not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities. UVA will provide relevant information and data to the Department of Justice on a quarterly basis through 2028. The President of UVA will personally certify each quarter that UVA is in compliance with the agreement. The Department will pause its pending investigations into the university’s admissions policies and other civil rights concerns. The United States shall treat UVA as eligible for future grants and awards. If UVA completes its planned reforms prohibiting DEI at the university, the Department will close its investigations against UVA.

“This notable agreement with the University of Virginia will protect students and faculty from unlawful discrimination, ensuring that equal opportunity and fairness are restored,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division. “We appreciate the progress that the university has made in combatting antisemitism and racial bias, and other American universities should be on alert that the Justice Department will ensure that our federal civil rights laws are enforced for every American, without exception.”

That guidance (Civil Rights Act of 1964, don't use race or proxies in hiring or admissions) : https://links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2Fag%2Fmedia%2F1409486%2Fdl%3Finline=%26utm_medium=email%26utm_source=govdelivery/1/010001985c36b911-61c8d569-6d56-46d7-a035-616d9d8fe7e9-000000/TsIBQqBaWzEOyES8UUgQDNShsWJG3q3R3Tew_gKTTok=416

Trump's contract also requires no sex or gender DEI. Does UVA follow that already?