The three-part “Dismantling Democracy” series examines democracies and threats to democracies around the world, with interviews with politicians, journalists, faculty and more. Part two airs tonight in Virginia.
The changes include renaming a school, contextualizing Jefferson’s statue, removing the George Rogers Clark statue, rededicating or removing the Whispering Wall and renaming a Law School building.
The Board endorsed commitments to double the number of underrepresented faculty by 2030, review tenure and promotion processes and support a more racially and socioeconomically diverse student population, among other goals.
It ranks the University the fourth-best public school in the U.S. UVA moved up two spots in the overall rankings, to No. 26. UVA boasts the top graduation rate of any public university in the country.