Reports: UVA President to step down

The Trump administration has demanded Jim Ryan's resignation

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Reports: Ryan to step down as UVA president

The New York Times is reporting that University of Virginia President Jim Ryan will resign after demands from President Donald Trump’s administration.

From the NY Times:

“The University of Virginia’s president, James E. Ryan, has told the board overseeing the school that he will resign in the face of demands by the Trump administration that he step aside in order to help resolve a Justice Department inquiry into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, according to three people briefed on the matter.

For the leader of a major public university to take such an extraordinary step demonstrates President Trump’s success in harnessing the investigative powers of the federal government to accomplish his administration’s policy goals.”

According to the Times, the Justice Department demanded Ryan’s resignation as a condition to settle a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity practices.

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