(Washington) The president of the University of Virginia resigned under pressure from the Department of Justice, which had claimed his departure following the meticulous examination of the establishment’s practices in matters of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), said a person close to the file on Friday.
The departure of James Ryan, who has run the university since 2018, marks a spectacular escalation in the efforts of the Trump administration to reshape higher education.
The fact that he takes place in a public university marks a new stage in a campaign that has almost exclusively targeted the universities of Ivy League. This also widens the logic of government’s aggressive tactics, which favors Dei rather than alleged tolerance to anti -Semitism.
Mr. Ryan had suffered conservative criticisms for having ignored the federal orders aimed at suppressing Dei’s policies, and his dismissal was requested by the Department of Justice in order to contribute to the resolution of a Department’s investigation, according to this person, who was not authorized to comment on this decision namely and expressed himself under the cover of anonymity with the Associated Press.
THE New York Times was the first to discuss this resignation and the insistence of the Department of Justice to claim it. The ministry refused to comment on Friday.
