The University of Virginia, as we have known it all our lives, is no more. Its status as an independent academic village, an oasis dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding, ended Wednesday when officials effectively signed the school over to the Trump administration and its weaponized Department of Justice.

In knuckling under, UVA not only effectively surrendered state control of the school to the White House but undermined the united opposition of higher education across the United States to unacceptable demands being made by President Donald Trump. It’s a dark day for Mr. Jefferson’s university, for the commonwealth and for the nation.

In a letter dated Jan. 18, 1800 , Thomas Jefferson first raised the idea of establishing “for the state a University on a plan so bro

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