CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — President Donald Trump has ordered universities to end their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices, but the battle to oust the leftist president of the University of Virginia shows that more house-cleaning is required to rid academic institutions of Marxist ideology.
Tuesday evening, at a meeting of The Jefferson Council (TJC), a very active alumni group that has been trying to battle the left-wing shredding of one of America’s most historic schools, the University of Virginia (UVA), many members insisted that the school’s vote to ditch DEI in accordance with Trump’s order means nothing if the school’s board refuses to get rid of the leadership that helped put it there.
After the vote from the UVA Board of Visitors (BOV), Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., triumphantly declared DEI “done” at UVA, but all evidence suggests…