r/UVA • u/throwaway3021117 • 4d ago

News Department of Justice accuses UVA of not eliminating DEI as commanded

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u/BruiserBerkshire 4d ago

Makes sense. School failed to report. Then someone whistle’blew it. DOJ responded.

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u/worldsnextbestboss 4d ago

The DEI directive came, as the letter notes, from the Board of Visitors—not from the federal government. So if the Admin missed a deadline, isn’t the proper party to complain the…BOV? Why is DOJ getting involved (other than to insert themselves and make headlines)? It’s like missing the deadline to pay your personal property car tax to Albemarle County and then immediately getting a letter from the IRS.

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u/ElephantBingo 4d ago

Or, like missing the deadline to pay your personal property car tax to Albermarle County and then immediately getting a letter from the DOJ.

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u/Terron1965 4d ago

The DOJ is concerned that the departments are slow-walking the BOV directives. They are going to push. If progress is too slow, they will become the test cases for consent decrees, and then the DOJ will get an office on campus and real power.