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Evidence Reveals Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin Was Right on DEI. Here’s What Parents and Students Need to Know.
Yes, Virginia, radicals are promoting racial discrimination and drag queens in the Old Dominion’s public schools. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, however, has tried to protect children from sexually explicit content and reject racial prejudice since his first day in office.
New research only confirms the Republican governor’s plan and adds urgency to the cause.
Last week, researchers found that Virginia has more “diversity, equity, and inclusion” bureaucrats in its public universities than any other state in the country.
Virginia Tech employs about six DEI staff for every 100 faculty members, while George Mason University has more than seven DEI staff per 100 faculty. These figures outpace the schools in traditionally left-leaning states such as Oregon—and even some schools in California.
Nationwide, DEI offices have appropriately faced criticism this year, including in recent weeks, for pushing fringe ideas. With DEI offices on campuses in every state, officials are right to ask for results.
They’ve turned up little so far. At Boston University, Ibram X. Kendi’s DEI-driven Antiracism Center is under investigation for raking in millions of dollars for operations with little academic content to show for it.
In Virginia, the DEI office at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise hosted a drag show last year. GMU promotes the main Black Lives Matter organization, which faces accusations that it used tens of millions in donations to enrich its founders.
How do these programs produce better doctors, engineers, pilots, or teachers?
Earlier this year, Youngkin said that “ESG and DEI have gone off the rails, candidly,” adding: “We’ve got work to do.”
Virginia’s governor is hardly the only one to feel this way: Lawmakers in Florida and Texas have prohibited DEI offices on campus from using taxpayer money and no longer allow administrators to require job applicants to write statements in favor of diversity, equity, and inclusion to go along with their resumes.
“The Youngkin administration has worked with college and university leaders throughout the Commonwealth to shift the focus to restoring excellence in education and providing opportunities for all students to receive a best-in-class experience,” Virginia Education Secretary Aimee Guidera said in an email to a Heritage Foundation colleague and me, responding to a request for comment on the report.
Youngkin is also among elected executives and lawmakers who have recognized that DEI and critical race theory likely violate state and federal civil rights laws. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, also a Republican, issued an executive order that rejects the application of critical race theory in K-12 schools and signed legislation to reinforce students’ and employees’ civil rights on college campuses.
Meanwhile, lawmakers in Mississippi, Idaho, South Carolina, and elsewhere have adopted proposals that also reinforce the idea that kids in grades K-12 matter more than their skin color.
On Jan. 15, 2022, his first day in office, Youngkin ordered a review of K-12 curricula and practices in Virginia, anticipating that educators’ applications of critical race theory were unlawful.
Correct again: After a legal challenge, a school district in Massachusetts abandoned its mandatory racial affinity groups, a program that separated students by race for different activities. A South Carolina school district canceled its contract with a teacher training organization after lawmakers found the organization was promoting critical race theory’s prejudiced worldview.
“Governor Youngkin will continue to advance equal opportunities—not equal outcomes—for all Virginians,” Guidera said in her email.
Youngkin has parents’ support on these issues. Virginians have filed lawsuits against public school districts where educators push prejudiced ideas in schools. In Bedford, parents called on the school board to cancel a drag show that school officials intended to host in a school gym.
In higher education, professors have more freedom over what they teach than teachers do in elementary and high schools, but this doesn’t mean college officials can violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 nor that universities should use taxpayer resources on unproductive departments.
The new evidence on Virginia universities’ DEI offices proves that Youngkin and other public officials who are trying to restore a sense of racial equality under the law have been right all along.
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With the game of year looming this weekend, members of the Virginia football team were made available to to the media after practice on Tuesday morning to talk about the regular season finale against Virginia Tech in the Commonwealth Clash on Saturday night in Blacksburg. Watch the video below to hear what UVA senior safety Jonas Sanker, graduate tight ends Tyler Neville and Sackett Wood Jr., and graduate defensive tackle Jahmeer Carter had to say ahead of the Virginia Tech game:
Sanker is the team’s leader in tackles with 89 total tackles and also leads the ACC in solo stops with 60 unassisted tackles. He has racked up 8.5 tackles for loss, two sacks, four pass breakups, two fumble recoveries, and an interception as part of a strong senior campaign that should earn Sanker some serious consideration for a First-Team All-ACC selection.
A transfer from Harvard, Tyler Neville is Virginia’s second-leading receiver with 35 catches for 387 yards and two touchdowns. Sackett Wood Jr., meanwhile, has recorded three receptions for 18 yards and a touchdown this season. Between the two of them, Neville and Wood have combined to appear in 83 college football games and make 48 starts.
Saturday will be the 55th game in the five-year career of Jahmeer Carter, who has started nearly every game for the last four seasons at Virginia. This season, Carter has 30 total tackles, including nine solo stops, two tackles for loss, one sack, and a pass defender. For his career, Carter is up to 131 total tackles, 2.5 sacks, and 7.5 tackles for loss.
Saturday night will be the first time Virginia plays at Lane Stadium in front of fans since the 2018 season, as the 2020 edition of the Commonwealth Clash was played in front of only 250 fans due to COVID-19 restrictions and then the 2022 Virginia vs. Virginia Tech game was canceled due to the shooting tragedy at UVA.
Virginia is seeking its first road victory at Virginia Tech since 1998, as the Hokies have won the last 11 Commonwealth Clash games played at Lane Stadium. Virginia Tech has won 17 of the last 18 overall games against Virginia and leads UVA 61-38-5 in the all-time series that dates back to 1895.
Both Virginia and Virginia Tech bring a 5-6 overall record into the regular season finale and both need to win the game in order to reach the six-win threshold required for bowl eligibility. There is only one other game this weekend between FBS teams who are battling for bowl eligibility (Eastern Michigan vs. Western Michigan). Virginia and Virginia Tech played each other for bowl eligibility at the end of the 2014 season.
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Virginia (4-2) got back in the win column with a 74-65 victory over Manhattan (3-3) on Tuesday night at John Paul Jones Arena. Here are our five quick takeaways from the Cavaliers’ win over the Jaspers.
Virginia was in serious need of a win after suffering those two humbling losses to Tennessee and St. John’s in The Bahamas. But a convincing and comfortable victory would have been even better and for a while, it seemed like the Cavaliers were on their way to doing just that. UVA led by as many as 15 points in the first half and opened up a 16-point advantage midway through the second half. But rather than putting the game away, Virginia let Manhattan hang around and the visiting Jaspers were in a situation where they were fouling to stop the clock in the final minutes, narrowing the deficit to as little as six points. A win is a win, but this was far from a confidence-boosting performance.
Virginia went with a new starting lineup on Tuesday night, as Andrew Rohde replaced TJ Power. Rohde has been playing very well recently, particularly with his resurgent outside shot, while Power came into this game shooting 25% from beyond the arc this season.
Power initially responded well to the benching, swishing a corner three shortly after he first entered the game, hitting the deck for a loose ball, and coming up with a steal to stop a Manhattan fastbreak. But he wound up playing only six minutes, fewest among Cavaliers who saw the floor in the game. That does not bode well for the Duke transfer.
Read Val’s Plus/Minus breakdown of the game here.
Rohde, on the other hand, had another solid game and was perhaps the top performer for the Hoos on Tuesday night. Though he missed his only three-pointer, which was a desperation off-balanced heave at the end of the shot clock, Rohde finished with a season-high 14 points, two assists (with one turnover), two rebounds, and four steals. Rohde showed excellent feel for the game, getting exactly where he wanted to go and exhibiting some nice touch on a couple of floaters plus a short jumper off the glass. If Rohde is playing like this and his three-point shot continues to be there, this could be a big season for the former St. Thomas transfer.
The main reason why this game continued to be close deep into the second half is because UVA’s defense frequently broke down and gave up open shots to Manhattan, particularly from the perimeter. The Jaspers shot 11/26 (42.3%) from beyond the arc and and seven different players knocked down a three. A couple of those Manhattan triples were well-contested, but the vast majority of them were wide-open. That’s very concerning and shows that this Virginia defense, with its many new faces, is still very much a work in progress.
Virginia’s offense was pretty well neutralized by Tennessee and St. John’s in The Bahamas. Tuesday night against Manhattan was a small step in the right direction, but there’s still a lot of room for improvement.
Let’s start with the good. Five different Cavaliers scored in double figures, including a game-high 18 points from Isaac McKneely, who hit three of his four three-point attempts and went 5/6 from the free throw line. We still think McKneely needs to shoot way more, but we’ll leave that alone for now. Dai Dai Ames scored 10 points and dished out five assists, but fouled out of the game. Blake Buchanan made his first four shots and finished with 11 points and five boards. Cofie made five of his seven shots and finished with 10 points and five boards. The best part of the game was that Virginia had 15 assists on 29 made baskets and turned the ball over only eight times, a vast improvement over the team’s turnover issues in The Bahamas.
Virginia outscored Manhattan 42-22 in the paint. That looks like a good stat, but it’s also an inevitable stat because of UVA’s size advantage over the Jaspers, whose tallest player in the rotation is 6’8″. Still, Manhattan snared 10 offensive rebounds and scored 11 second-chance points. In The Bahamas, UVA was dominated on the glass and was simply outmatched from a physicality and athleticism standpoint. Nothing we saw from the Cavaliers on Tuesday night did anything to alleviate those concerns.
Up next, Virginia remains at home for another (supposed) tune-up game against Holy Cross on Friday at 4pm at John Paul Jones Arena.
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