The president of the University of Virginia, James Ryan, resigned on Friday under the pressure of the administration of President Donald Trump about the diversity, equity and inclusion policies of the school.
In a letter to the UVA community, Ryan said he had made the “unbearable decision” to resign after concluding that resisting the demands of Trump’s officials would put the students and teachers of the school at risk.
“I can’t make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government to save my own work,” he wrote. “To do it not only would it be quixotic but it would seem selfish and egocentric for the hundreds of employees who would lose their work, the researchers who would lose their funds and the hundreds of students who could lose financial help or have their retained visas.”
The American Democratic senators of Virginia, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, described the demand of the Trump “outrageous” administration in a joint statement and said that Ryan’s departure would harm the University and the State.
It was not clear if Ryan’s resignation would immediately go into force. Previously, the New York Times had reported that the Department of Justice had demanded its resignation and decided to capitular.
The administration has launched a campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion and the specific colleges and universities that they have affirmed are promoting anti -Semitic, anti -American, Marxist and left -wing ideologies “radicals.”
Universities that have been investigated or had frozen funds have said that Trump’s attacks are threats to freedom of expression, freedom of academics and the very existence of schools.
In a warning issued to UVA last week, the Department of Justice said that the Government had concluded that the use of the breed in admissions and other benefits of students was “generalized practices in all components and facets of the institution,” according to The Times.
