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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 January, the U.S. inflation rate was 1.4 percent. Inflation hasn’t gone higher than 2.3 percen...

During the current fiscal year 2021, there have been $142 million of costs and lost revenue, with $55 million allocated towards COVID-related expenses.