{"id":148626,"date":"2025-07-01T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=148626"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:50:00","slug":"u-va-president-resigns-amid-trump-administration-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=148626","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;U-Va. president resigns amid Trump administration pressure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2025\/06\/27\/uva-president-submits-resignation-trump-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;University of Virginia President James E. Ryan resigned Friday, a decision he said he took to try to spare the university a costly fight with the Trump administration amid pressure over diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Department officials had previously told Ryan they\u2019d like him to step down, a person familiar with the matter said. The agency declined to comment Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a note to the community, Ryan said he worried that trying to save his own job to fight the federal government would harm U-Va. researchers reliant on federal funding and students who could lose financial aid or their visas.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;University of Virginia President James E. Ryan resigned Friday, a decision he said he took to try to spare the university a costly fight with the Trump administration amid pressure over diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Justice Department officials had previously told Ryan they\u2019d like him to step down, a person familiar with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148627,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148626\/revisions\/148627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}