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The University held five Final Exercises ceremonies over three joyful days, celebrating graduates after one of the most unusual, difficult years in UVA’s history.

STUDENTS at the University of Virginia are pleading with the school’s Board of Visitors not to increase tuition for the 2021-22 school year. Their complaint is legitimate. U.Va. is considering a 3.1 percent tuition hike, citing the economic ravages visited on the school by COVID-19 as a key factor. If you consider that the students themselves (and their parents) are hurting just as much—if not more—than a well-heeled university, this doesn’t wash. For the 12 months ending in...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL January 06, 2021 A main idea behind the University of Virginia’s “Democracy Dialogues” series that kicked off on Wednesday night was to make some sense of the upheaval and transition taking place within the United States’ political system, part of the initiative’s goal of contributing to the strengthening of democracy through civil debate. In light of the events earlier in the day that saw pro-Donald Trump rioters storm the U.S. Capito...