Virginia state seal, with a woman in a blue Roman toga, the allegorical figure of virtue, stepping on a man in a purple toga, the allegorical figure of tyranny, above the state motto "Sic semper tyrannis" (meaning "Thus always to tyrants") appears on a blue background

Who Rules Virginia’s Public Universities?

BY TIMOTHY KAUFMAN-OSBORN Much has been said about the radical right’s assault on the autonomy of US public higher education and that campaign’s subversion of academic freedom. Today, for example, we all know about Florida’s Stop WOKE Act as well as it successor, SB 266, which expressly prohibits faculty from teaching that “systemic racism, sexism,…