This is in stark contrast to the Charlottesville City Council, which decided to drop the day.

The College Fix reports:

UVA to keep pro-Jefferson ‘Founder’s Day’...

This concerned mother shares the anxiety of many parents sending their kids off to college.

She writes at the Federalist:

My Son’s Freshman Orientation At Virginia Tech Was Full Of Leftist Propaganda

Are taxpayers funding academic institutions to indoctrinate our kids? That disturbing and irresistible question plagued me during the long drive home last...

Remember when the left said this was only about Confederate statues? They lied.

The College Fix reports:

University of Virginia considers removing statue of Revolutionary War officer

As the University of Virginia grapples with its h...

The money for this is reportedly coming from private funding.

From the Associated Press via WTOP News:

University of Virginia to offer aid to undocumented students

The University of Virginia has extended financial aid eligibility to undergraduate students who are in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The Daily Progress reports the financial help...

This student describes a scene which may be familiar to other conservative students.

From the Daily Signal:

When My College Art Class Became a Political Ambush

One afternoon during my sophomore year at the University of Virginia, I had to attend a presentation from the college’s residential artist for an art class that I...

This just might have something to do with the ridiculously high cost of college tuition.

The College Fix reports:

In Virginia, 80 percent of the highest-paid public employees are in higher education

Nearly 80 percent of the highest paid state employees in the state of Virginia are public university staffers. Those individuals all pull...

Everyone should be angry about this. American history is being erased before our eyes.

Campus Reform reports:

Charlottesville, Va. scraps Thomas Jefferson’s b-day as paid holiday. UVA College Republicans are livid.

University of Virginia’s College Republicans chapter slammed Charlottesville, Va. Friday for dropping former president and UVA founder Thomas Jefferson’s birthday as a paid...

Charlottesville, VA, decided to end making Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, April 13, a city holiday. Yes, the city now known for the riots back in 2017.

Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, and his Monticello home is a popular tourist spot.

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The school isn’t entirely clear on what this means. Perhaps that’s the point.

The College Fix reports:

State university forbids student groups from violating ‘public morals’

An official policy at a state university in Virginia prohibits student organizations...

Sometimes there are incredible stories that come out, that when you see them you think, “Did that person really say that?”

Such was the case for me Friday when I read the news that embattled Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) told reporters he was seriously considering a 2021 gubernatorial run—because the...

This morning, officials from Eastern Virginia Medical School held a press conference to report the findings from an investigation they commissioned into a racist photo published on Va. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s page in the school’s 1984 yearbook.

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Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson, the two women who have accused Democrat Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault and rape, sat down with Gayle King for CBS This Morning to provide details of the incidents.

Tyson demanded an investigation from the Virginia legislature while Watson reminded people that she has...

When it comes to addressing the lingering issue of Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s refusal to resign over a college blackface photo that surfaced last month, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) would rather talk about… herself and Pres. Trump.
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Goodness sake, Virginia. Just weeks after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam came under fire for black face back in college, his wife Pam Northam is in hot water for offering black students cotton and encouraging them to imagine being enslaved and forced to pick the crop. From The Washington Post:

“The Governor and...

If these students are serious about this, they should get a big media outlet like Rolling Stone to do a story about it.

The College Fix reports:

UVA student leaders want more ‘safe spaces’ for minority students

Student leaders at the University of Virginia say the current quantity of minority student “safe spaces” is...

What a difference going on groveling apology tours can make for Democrats.

Results from two recent Virginia polls show that Gov. Ralph Northam and AG Mark Herring have managed to survive the blackface scandals that rocked the state earlier this month. The sexual assault allegations against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, however, have...

Meredith Watson, the second woman who accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of rape, lashed at out the politician and those who have not called for a public hearing into the accusations in The Washington Post.

Watson has accused Fairfax of raping her in 2000 when both of them attended Duke University....