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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · Jul 16

Some UVA faculty urged that a “no confidence” vote in the Board of Visitors would spoil the chance of productive partnership moving forward.

But if the BOV won’t even respond to this polite (secret) letter FROM THE DEANS… the problems run so much deeper.

Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · Jul 16

“New hires are rethinking joining our ranks” at UVA (per 12 of 14 deans).

Still silence from our Board of Visitors as their top-secret “negotiations” continue.

(Again, great work from the student journalists at the Cav Daily: www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...)

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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · Aug 2

State Sen. Creigh Deeds asks the BOV: “What is your understanding of the importance of shared governance in a university? What is your understanding of the significance of having lost the confidence of the people who educate students in that university?” www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Virginia General Assembly demands answers about Ryan's resignation in Aug. 1 letter

In a 10-page letter obtained by The Cavalier Daily, State Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, demanded written responses and documentation from University Rector Rachel Sheridan and University Vice ...

www.cavalierdaily.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Jul 31

Columbia and Brown, by settling, have encouraged this tactic. Authoritarians are emboldened by capitulation, and they won't stop until the cost outweighs the benefits.

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Jul 31

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Aug 2

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

August 1, 2025
AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the American Economic Association on the
Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner

Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today.
The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day.
Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias.
The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity.
Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions.
We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure.

Lawrence Katz
President, American Economic Association
Katharine Abraham
President-Elect, American Economic Association
Karen Dynan
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics
Kenneth Troske
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · Aug 2

These are exactly the questions that need to be answered.

Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · Aug 2

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Virginia General Assembly demands answers about Ryan's resignation in Aug. 1 letter

In a 10-page letter obtained by The Cavalier Daily, State Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, demanded written responses and documentation from University Rector Rachel Sheridan and University Vice ...

www.cavalierdaily.com

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · Aug 2

And, thank you @creighdeeds.bsky.social!

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · Aug 2

Cavalier Daily reports an important development that will certainly be on the mind of many BOV members on Monday. While I am not a lawyer, it appears to me that Deeds is establishing a legal basis for the GA to seek an injunction on the enactment of any Voluntary Settlement
bsky.app/profile/dem8...

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · Aug 2

To clarify, the scope of closed session provides ample room for the BOV to approve a Voluntary Settlement with the DOJ. So, it would not be shocking if they announce that as early as Monday.

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · Aug 2

For anyone curious about such things, here's the agenda and meeting packet for Monday's special meeting of the UVA Board of Visitors
bov.virginia.edu/meetings/aug...

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Delegate Katrina Callsen @katrinacallsen.com · Jul 30

Good meeting with @uvahealth.bsky.social and @creighdeeds.bsky.social to discuss how UVA and schools in our Research Diamond are paving the way for medical innovation and economic opportunity. Our UVA Manning Institute For Biotechnology will be a hub to turn science into medicine that heals.

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cpcville @cpcville.bsky.social · Aug 1

If you care about #UVA, sign this letter to the BoV and share the link. win.newmode.net/wahoos4uva/u...

New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · Aug 1

Seems clear that the Columbia capitulation crosses the red line of academic freedom, if what Rashid Khalidi says here is accurate (and I have no reason to think it is not)

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AAUP @aaup.org · Aug 1

“The focus on monetary damages paid by the university and restrictions on campus protests and diversity policies obscures the Trump administration’s imposition of the right to interfere directly in university admissions, hiring, and promotion decisions.”

—Aaron Nisenson, AAUP Senior Counsel

Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 1

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/08/01/g...

Government Intrusion at Columbia Has Only Just Begun

BY AARON NISENSON The Trump administration has successfully buried a key component of the Columbia settlement agreement. The focus on monetary damages paid by the university and restrictions on cam…

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 31

DOJ put out a memo stating that all recipients of federal funding must ban trans people from bathrooms.

www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

Alt text:
A section from a government memorandum titled "Segregation Based on Protected Characteristics" under the header "What Constitutes Unlawful Segregation?" It explains that segregation by federally funded entities based on characteristics like race or sex is generally unlawful, even if intended to promote inclusion. Highlighted text focuses on concerns regarding allowing males, including those who identify as women, access to female-only spaces such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and athletic events. The memo claims this compromises women's safety, privacy, and equal opportunity, potentially violating Title IX, and advocates for sex-based boundaries based on biological differences.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · Jul 26

A typical summer in Charlottesville where everything looks the same around the grounds. Mothers in loose linen dresses and fathers in khaki cargo shorts, their children—prospective UVA students—in tow, tour the grounds. Nothing is the same. Everything has changed. For me, dread is redolent.

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AAUP @aaup.org · Jul 24

For higher education to function, students and faculty must be free to think and speak their minds. Students, faculty, and all who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuing assault. We have no choice.

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · Jul 24

coming here next, UVA. trump's doj is negotiating with our trumpist board as represented by a pet trump law firm to sell us out the same way. up to all of us to show them they are not the university

AAUP @aaup.org · Jul 24

For higher education to function, students and faculty must be free to think and speak their minds. Students, faculty, and all who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuing assault. We have no choice.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · Jul 24

it is absolutely critical that the first priority of the new Virginia state legislature that will sit next January is to drastically reform the UVA Board of Visitors in both membership and organization, or they will be dismantling UVA next.

Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · Jul 24

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

Screenshot of Columbia's settlement with the White House

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · Jul 25

UVA announces presidential search committee. Noticeably few faculty members are on the list.

view.mc.virginia.edu?qs=e828e5831...

UVA announces presidential search committee

view.mc.virginia.edu

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John McLaren @johnmclaren.bsky.social · Jul 24

Terrified that this is what's next for UVA.

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Kimberly Acquaviva (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @kimacquaviva.bsky.social · Jul 26

Safe travels!

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Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · Jul 25

There are 28 members on the committee to select a new president at UVA. There's exactly one faculty member from Arts & Sciences, the biggest school and the heart of undergraduate education. There are 10 members from a discredited board news.virginia.edu/content/uva-...

UVA announces special committee to help select 10th president

The committee includes current and past University leaders, faculty members, students and several alumni.

news.virginia.edu

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Kimberly Acquaviva (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @kimacquaviva.bsky.social · Jul 25

The previous two presidential search committees looked MUCH different. The current Rector’s disrespect for shared governance is staggering.

2009 Presidential Search
• 9 current BOV members
• 2 former BOV members (both Rectors)
• 6 faculty members
• 2 students
BOV Members
• John O. Wynne (Law '71), rector, Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia
• W. Heywood Fralin (College '62), immediate past rector, Board of Visitors
• Daniel R. Abramson (College '70), vice rector, Board of Visitors
• A. Macdonald Caputo (College '63, Law '66), Board of Visitors
• Susan Y. Dorsey (Architecture '82, Darden 87), Board of Visitors
• Helen E. Dragas (College '84, Darden 88), Board of Visitors
• Austin Ligon, Board of Visitors
• Vincent J. Mastracco Jr. (College '61), Board of Visitors
• Warren M. Thompson (Darden 83), Board of Visitors
Former BOV Members
• Thomas F. Farrell || (College '76, Law '79), former rector and current member of the board of the University's College at Wise
• Gordon F. Rainey (College 62, Law '67), former rector and current chairman of the University's $3 billion capital campaign
Faculty
• Robert Eatton Jr., Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in the Department of Politics and associate dean of graduate programs in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
• James N. Galloway, Sidman P. Poole Professor of Environmental Sciences and associate dean for the sciences in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
• Ann B. Hamric, professor in the School of Nursing and chair of the Faculty Senate.
• John C. Jeffries Jr. (Law '73), David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law. He joined the faculty in 1975, and served from 2001 to 2008 as dean of the School of Law.
• Deborah E. McDowell, director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and Alice Griffin Professor of Literary Studies.
• Dr. Peyton T. Taylor, Crockett Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, founding director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology and associate medical director of the U.Va.
Cancer Center.
Students
• J…

2017 Presidential Search
11 current BOV members
3 former BOV members (2 of them Rectors)
• 5 faculty members
2 students
• 1 senior member of the UVA Medical Center management team
BOV Members
• William H. Goodwin, Jr. (Darden 66), Rector (co-Chair)
• Frank M. "Rusty" Conner III (College '78, Law '81), Vice Rector (co-Chair)
• Mark T. Bowles
• L.D. Britt, M.D. (College '72)
• Whittington W. "Whitt" Clement (College '70, Law '74)
• Elizabeth M. Cranwell (College '86)
• Thomas A. DePasquale (Commerce '82)
• Barbara J. Fried (College '04)
• Babur B. Lateef, M.D.
• John G. Macfarlane III (Darden '79)
• James B. Murray Jr. (College '68)
Former BOV Members
• Thomas F. Farrell || (College '76, Law '79) CEO of Dominion Resources Inc., and former rector, Board of Visitors
• Victoria D. Harker (College '86), COO of Tegna Inc., former member of the Board of Visitors, and former chair of the UVA Alumni Association Board of Managers
• George Keith Martin (College 75), managing partner, McGuireWoods LLP, and former rector, Board of Visitors
Students
of Visitors
• Phoebe A. Willis (College '13), second-year Law and Darden student and student representative, Board
• Aryn Frazier, fourth-year undergraduate student and a recently named Rhodes Scholar
Faculty
• John C. Jeffries Jr. (Law '73), David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law and former dean, UVA School of Law
• Robert. F. Bruner, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and dean emeritus, Darden
School of Business
• Michael F. Suarez, S.J., University Professor of English and director, Rare Book School
• Margaret Foster "Mimi" Riley, chair of the Faculty Senate and Professor of Law
• Jahan Ramazani (College '81), University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor, Department of English
Senior Administrator - UVA Health
• Pamela Sutton-Wallace, CEO, UVA Medical Center

2025 Presidential Search
• 12 current BOV members (1 is the student rep, 1 is the faculty rep)
• 3 former BOV members (1 of them a Rector)
• 4 Vice Presidents and senior leaders
• 4 alumni
• 3 faculty members
• 1 student
• 1 staff member
BOV Members
• Rachel Sheridan, committee chair: rector of the University; president, Virginia Athletics
Foundation; partner, Capital Markets Group, Kirkland & Ellis. Sheridan earned an undergraduate degree from UVA in 1994 and a law degree in 1998. She is the parent of a UVA student.
• Porter Wilkinson, committee vice chair: vice rector of the University; counselor and chief of staff, Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents. Wilkinson earned a law degree from UVA in 2007.
• Jim Donovan: member, UVA Board of Visitors; vice chairman, Global Client Coverage at Goldman Sachs; adjunct professor, UVA School of Law; board member, Karsh Institute of Democracy. Donovan is the parent of a UVA student.
• Marvin Gilliam: member, UVA Board of Visitors; owner and manager, MAM Development;
trustee, Virginia Athletics Foundation. Gilliam graduated from UVA in 1978.
• John Harris: member, UVA Board of Visitors; private investor and previous managing director, chief financial officer and senior adviser for The Carlyle Group. Harris graduated from UVA in 1982.
• Paul Manning: member, UVA Board of Visitors; chair, UVA Health System Board; chair and CEO of PBM Capital
• John Nau: member, UVA Board of Visitors; former chair and CEO of Silver Eagle Distributors.
Nau graduated from UVA in 1968.
• Dr. David Okonkwo: member, UVA Board of Visitors; professor of neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Okonkwo is a 1994 UVA graduate and the parent of a UVA student.
• Amanda Pillion: member, UVA Board of Visitors; former mayor of Abingdon. Pillion earned an undergraduate degree from UVA in 1997 and a master's in 1999. She is the parent of a UVA student.
• Doug Wetmore: member, UVA Board of Visitors; senior vice president for business development, …

Former BOV Members
• Dr. Babur Lateef: former member, UVA Board of Visitors; former chair, UVA Health System Board; chair, Prince William County School Board; founder and owner, Advanced Ophthalmology.
Lateef is a UVA graduate student.
• George Martin: former rector of the University; former managing partner, McGuireWoods. Martin graduated from UVA in 1975.
• Jimmy Reyes: former member, UVA Board of Visitors; owner, Reyes Holdings
Vice Presidents & Senior Leaders
Kenyon Bonner: UVA vice president and chief student affairs officer. Bonner is the parent of a UVA student.
• Lori McMahon: UVA vice president for research; professor of neuroscience
• Dr. Mitch Rosner: chair, UVA Department of Medicine; Henry B. Mulholland Professor of Medicine; interim executive vice president for health affairs at UVA Health
• Carla Williams: UVA director of athletics. Williams is the parent of a UVA student.
Faculty
• Philip Bourne: founding dean, School of Data Science; professor of biomedical engineering
• David Leblang: Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Endowed Professor of Politics at the College of Arts & Sciences; professor of public policy, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy; director of policy studies, UVA's Miller Center of Public Affairs Sherri Moore: associate professor, Mcintire School of Commerce. Moore graduated from UVA in 1985.
Staff
Student
• Adam Richard: co-chair, UVA Staff Senate Executive Committee
• Quana Dennis: faculty member, Saint Anne's-Belfield School. Dennis graduated from UVA in 2023 and earned a master's in 2024 and is a UVA doctoral student.
Alumni
• Gretchen Walsh: Olympian; world record holder; NCAA Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year (swimming and diving). Walsh graduated from UVA in May.
• Marvin Bush: vice president and director, Winston Capital Management and Winston Partners Group; vice president, Virginia Athletics Foundation. Bush graduated from UVA in 1979.
• Pam Edmonds: trustee emerita, the College Foundati…

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CBS19 News: Charlottesville News First @cbs19news.bsky.social · Jul 18

State senators express concern over political pressure at UVA

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) — Ongoing leadership changes at the University of Virginia are drawing concern on Capitol Hill, with Virginia Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner warning that political

www.cbs19news.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · Jul 16

We condemn this campaign to exert ideological & political control over higher ed in Virginia, including these attempts to attack & displace our campus leaders. We will fight for the independence of George Mason, UVa, & every public college & university in VA.

— Tim Gibson, AAUP Virginia President

ProPublica @propublica.org · Jul 14

Right-wing publications called for ousting George Mason University's president just after a federal probe was launched.

“When you start seeing these hit pieces come out one after another in a matter of days, you know it’s coordinated,” said a faculty member.

George Mason Is the Latest University Under Fire From Trump. Its President Fears an “Orchestrated” Campaign.

When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.” But there are signs it may…

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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · Jul 16

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Letter from 12 deans to Board of Visitors goes unanswered for almost two weeks

At the time of publication, the academic deans had received no response from the Board regarding their offer to meet with the Board “as soon as possible.”

www.cavalierdaily.com

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