The 12-page letter University of Virginia’s recently resigned president Jim Ryan sent to the UVA Faculty Senate offers a look inside the attempted conservative takeover of America’s finest universities by the Trump administration.

Ryan’s detailed explanation of his sacking recounted each bizarre twist and turn in his case. The story reveals an ugly, partisan truth that has nothing to do with academic freedom and everything to do with force-feeding a right-wing viewpoint into UVA’s leadership. What happened to Ryan was politically driven and deceitful, if not illegal. It was a template for what will likely happen at other schools where Trump wants to redirect the focus of higher education toward a strict dogma of conservatism.

Ryan’s letter came as Virginia’s Governor-elect Abigail Spanbe

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