Doj pressuring UVA to fire it's president

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an alumna and absolutely heartbroken. They tried to force out Sullivan and now they’ve forced out Ryan. This goes against the very ethos of UVA and why it was founded.

Wrong.

So enlighten us

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Anonymous wrote:So sad to hear he’s resigning. We are in scary times.

Absolutely and Youngkin just added 4 to the BOV

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Anonymous wrote:Lol he's gone!! Wonder who is going to replace him.

The logical insider (Ian Baucomb) bailed and left to become the President of Middlebury. He probably saw the writing in the wall and didn't feel like dealing with this idiocy.

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Authoritarianism wins. I guess that's what people voted for...

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Anonymous wrote:He has resigned already according to the NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/university-of-virginia-president-resigns-trump-justice-department.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE8.bt-W.WMLE7gsXW1tu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I hope his replacement is very right wing and takes UVA in the direction it should've been going in this whole time. Maybe they can change the school colors to red and purple instead of orange and purple?

Stop.

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so bizarre - the guy IS a conservative!

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the wrong move. stand and fight.

they took the wrong lesson from Columbia and Harvard.

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rumor has it that they have Cucinelli waiting in the wings to come in as president. I also have a UVA student who thought Jim Ryan was terrific.

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Anonymous wrote:We told you he’s coming for ALL colleges when everyone was gloating about the Ivies getting hit.

DEI, anti-Semitism:
“These are all smokescreens. Trump views colleges as his political enemies, so he is doing everything he can to tear them down. That may be because college graduates overwhelmingly voted for his Democratic opponent, or because college professors produce the research that undermines his baseless claims about everything from climate change to tax cuts. Or he may be influenced by a branch of conservative evangelicals who believe that they need to take over education and other realms.

With Trump, the simplest answer is often the most likely. After winning the Nevada Republican caucuses in 2016 due to support from people who never went to college, he infamously proclaimed, "I love the poorly educated." He's now doing his best to ensure more Americans fit that description.”

Anonymous wrote:
Conservatives left. It wasn’t liberal coercion. Conservatives decided to abandon their intellectual wing to grifters like Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson. Conservatives today don’t even know who Edmund Burke is, but instead prop up any anti establishment figure. You can’t whine about meritocracy when you aren’t even attempting to get into the club. Republicans teach their kids that school is indoctrination and college is a scam, and then wonder why their kids aren’t represented in academia.

I agree that conservatives have basically given up on academia and it is a huge loss. I’m liberal (but not far left) and really believe in challenge and debate. I think the right should re-enter academia but this is the wrong way. They are destroying it. I also think DEI is a smokescreen. I wonder why they don’t come up with legitimate intellectual positions instead of this populist garbage.

Trump is a descendent of the anti-intellectualism of Nixon, Agnew, Reagan and the second Bush, as represented in more extreme form in mass media over the years by people like Joe Pyne, Morton Downey and Rush Limbaugh before the advent of social media. Hostility towards elite educational institutions (shorthand reference "Harvard" or "Yale" as pejoratives) and government workers (Agnew: "pointy headed bureaucrats"), with not very subtle appeals to racism as with Limbaugh, were a means for the Republicans, dominated by the country club faction, to gain and maintain political power (Nixon: the Southern Strategy). The anti-intellectualism and racism were interwoven, and we see that here with the attacks on universities through demonizing DEI and appeals to Islamophobia.

But whereas the country club Republicans kept the people who responded to these appeals in check to retain their elite control over the party and achieve their economic objectives, and never actually did much to higher education, this is front and center for Trump and Vance. Enforcing a Hillsdale kind of educational orthodoxy on the US is the objective, a critical pillar for the construction of society where they will be in the ascendency indefinitely.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an alumna and absolutely heartbroken. They tried to force out Sullivan and now they’ve forced out Ryan. This goes against the very ethos of UVA and why it was founded.

With Sullivan, it was the Board. This is the Federal
Government!

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Anonymous wrote:DEI is blatantly illegal.

The fascists are certainly pretending it is.

DEI is not just morally and ethically vital, it's practical. Businesses do better when they practice it.

The hate, misogyny and racism of the regime knows no bounds though, so here we are.

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Trump is a descendent of the anti-intellectualism of Nixon, Agnew, Reagan and the second Bush, as represented in more extreme form in mass media over the years by people like Joe Pyne, Morton Downey and Rush Limbaugh before the advent of social media. Hostility towards elite educational institutions (shorthand reference "Harvard" or "Yale" as pejoratives) and government workers (Agnew: "pointy headed bureaucrats"), with not very subtle appeals to racism as with Limbaugh, were a means for the Republicans, dominated by the country club faction, to gain and maintain political power (Nixon: the Southern Strategy). The anti-intellectualism and racism were interwoven, and we see that here with the attacks on universities through demonizing DEI and appeals to Islamophobia. Nixon, in particular, is a seminal figure in Trump's political development.

But whereas the country club Republicans kept the people who responded to these appeals in check to retain their elite control over the party and achieve their economic objectives, and never actually did much to higher education, this is front and center for Trump and Vance. Enforcing a Hillsdale kind of educational orthodoxy on the US is the objective, a critical pillar for the construction of society where they will be in the ascendency indefinitely.

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Ryan probably had huge resistance from UVA faculty and staff about getting rid of DEI. All those people shouting for him to join Harvard and resist.

President Ryan worked for a board. It’s an ugly dismissal but the noisy resistors to DEI need to understand the stakes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an alumna and absolutely heartbroken. They tried to force out Sullivan and now they’ve forced out Ryan. This goes against the very ethos of UVA and why it was founded.

With Sullivan, it was the Board. This is the Federal
Government!

And both actions driven by conservatives. Sullivan was re-instated but I don’t see that happening with Ryan. Rumors running rampant that Cuccinelli had been picked to replace him.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DEI is blatantly illegal.

The fascists are certainly pretending it is.

DEI is not just morally and ethically vital, it's practical. Businesses do better when they practice it.

The hate, misogyny and racism of the regime knows no bounds though, so here we are.

DEI is hateful and racist.