WHAT THIRTY YEARS DID TO UVA’S PRICE TAG
In the fall of 1995, a Virginia family sending a kid to UVA got a bill for $4,614 in tuition and required fees. Thirty years later, an entering first-year is billed $23,960, on average. A family deciding if UVA is affordable is not just looking at tuition. They are looking at a total bill. Averaged across the schools, that bill is now about 2.2 times what thirty years of inflation would have produced — and the same is true for out-of- state. In both cases, inflation accounts for less than half the total bill. The rest is a series of decisions: a long run of them, made by each administration and Board of Visitors year after year.
DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE ALIVE AND WELL AT UVA
Shannon Fellowships are supposedly awarded to “outstanding mid-career faculty.” By any reasonable standard, has Mr. Ogunnaike deserved this recognition–or is this just a reward for representing the most outlandish pablum from a faculty where liberals outnumber conservatives by a ratio in the neighborhood of 99:1?
ONE WEEK LATER. SILENCE FROM UVA.
Last week we asked whether anyone in UVA's administration would respond to a petition promulgated by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) demanding the resignation of Darden Dean Yael Grushka-Cockayne on the grounds that she is Israeli and served in the IDF, as Israeli law requires of nearly everyone. A student answered. UVA did not
UVA Has Been Facing This issue since 2023. It still hasn’t Responded. President Beardsley — Will you?
UVA has been dealing with the harassment and intimidation of Jewish members of its community since 2023 by the student chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. Now, SJP is demanding the resignation of Darden’s new dean, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, citing her prior service in the Israeli military. The Jefferson Council asks a pointed question: Will President Beardsley finally speak out—or will UVA continue to remain silent?
HOW UVA BECAME ONE OF THE MOST LIBERAL UNIVERSITIES
IN THE COUNTRY
A new national ranking places UVA among the 25 most liberal colleges in the country — and a 2026 FIRE study offers an even more revealing statistic: UVA students identify as liberal rather than conservative by a 5.29-to-1 ratio, one of the highest disparities among major public universities. But UVA wasn't always this lopsided. How did we get here — and what would it take to restore genuine intellectual diversity at UVA?
Updates from
The Jefferson Council
PAVING THE WAY FOR CIVIL DIALOGUE AND INTELLECTUAL DIVERSITY at UVA
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