The First University has Admitted to Race-Based Hiring
The University of Virginia’s interim president and Board of Visitors have been widely criticized by the left for their standstill agreement with the Justice Department, in which the university agreed, most notably, not to take race into account in admissions and employment decisions. In exchange, the Justice Department is suspending a handful of civil rights investigations of the university.
For example, Virginia’s notoriously left-leaning student newspaper, the Cavalier Daily, published an editorial faulting Interim President Paul Mahoney for signing an agreement that binds the university to “the Justice Department’s controversial interpretation of existing civil rights legislation.”