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President of @UVA

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1 year
Light in darkness. Thanks to our students for lighting the way.
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An update on the active shooter incident at UVA:
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4 years
A quick thought for our students:
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4 years
This is Mohammed Al Syra. He is an environmental services professional who works 12-hour days at the COVID-19 clinic, cleaning every surface in the clinic, every two hours. Please join me in thanking our remarkably dedicated colleague, Mohammed.
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1 year
With gratitude to the Cavalier Marching Band, for bringing us all grace tonight. #uvastrong
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1 year
Today’s 26.2 miles were dedicated to Devin, Lavel, and D’Sean. We will never forget them. #UVAstrong @VirginiaSports @UVAFootball
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5 years
Let’s see your #finalfour game face...
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Tomorrow, I am running the #BostonMarathon to honor the lives of Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., and D'Sean Perry. #UVAstrong @UVAFootball @VirginiaSports
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5 years
As an alum of both schools, lacrosse final will be like watching your kids play against each other. Where you like one kid more than the other. 🙂 #GoHoos
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4 years
To the @UVAMenSoccer team, A profound thanks. You represented the University of Virginia with excellence this season, and I could not be more honored to be your president. Your fan too, Jim
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OMGuy! I have never enjoyed watching a team as much as this one — so much heart! One more... #wahoowa #finalfour
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The University of Virginia will always, always remember and honor the lives of Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. & D’Sean Perry, and the courage of Mike Hollins and Marlee Morgan. Today’s powerful memorial service at JPJ was just the beginning of recognizing their light. #UVAstrong
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Starting January 1, 2020, @UVA will begin paying all full-time employees a living wage of at least $15 an hour.
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5 years
Speechless! Couldn’t be happier for this special team! #wahoowa #finalfour
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4 years
Gratitude — for hard work paying off, streaks being broken, and getting to celebrate it all by storming the field with my 35-plus relatives and this big beautiful @UVA family I have the honor to serve! #wahoowa #beatTech #check #beatclemson
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6 years
My first time ever rushing the field (and subsequently, being kicked off the field)! Congrats, @uvafootball ! What a fantastic win! #wahoowa
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5 years
Phew! A well earned 3-0. Congrats @UVAfootball on an exciting night, especially a comeback fourth quarter full of so much heart. #TheStandard
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5 years
Two years. So much has changed, so much hasn’t. May the better angels of our nature continue to lead us down the path where our aspirations and realities meet, and give strength to those who are showing us the way. We are, and always will be, in this together.
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What an incredible and hard fought win tonight for Coach Elliott and our football team! This is Virginia football’s first road victory against a top ten team in the history of the program. I am so happy for them on this well earned, remarkable accomplishment. #Wahoowa
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Wahoowa! The Virginia women’s swimming & diving team just won the 2021 NCAA Championship! This is really big news — and a remarkable achievement, one that we will be celebrating from all corners of UVA.
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5 years
To the 130+ @UVA community members who showed up this morning — including the Mayor of Minneapolis — thanks for a good start to a big/exciting/crazy/stressful/wonderful/nerve wracking/special kind of day! Certainly gives new meaning to a Final Four “run.” #gohoos
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1 year
A solid win tonight at JPJ for the men’s basketball team – made even more fun by a terrific cheering section.
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2 years
Big congrats to our own Megan Sullivan, who won tonight and now advances to the semifinals in the ‘Jeopardy!’ National College Championship. #Wahoowa and great job representing @UVA !
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Jim Ryan
4 years
My deepest gratitude to Merrill and Jaffray Woodriff, both UVA alumni, whose timely & incredibly generous gift to UVA Health helped increase the number of COVID-19 tests produced daily from 200 to more than 500. Please join me in thanking Merrill & Jaffray for their generosity.
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Jim Ryan
4 years
You might see the Rotunda in the snow, which is beautiful. But I hope you also see the clean sidewalks and staircase, which are clean and safe thanks to our hardworking and dedicated facilities team. Thanks to all and stay warm tonight!
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Jim Ryan
1 year
Congrats to our remarkable Coach Tony Bennett for becoming UVA's all-time winningest coach tonight, building on Coach Terry Holland’s incredible legacy of success. Wahoowa, and great win over Syracuse! @UVAMensHoops @VirginiaSports @UVA
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3 years
Hard way to end the season, but we should all tip our caps to Brian O’Connor and the @uvabaseball team.  Great run and an amazing team.
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This is Harrison Keevil. A 2005 @UVA grad & owner of a market in Charlottesville, two weeks ago he shifted operations to become a community kitchen, with the goal of producing 500 meals a day. Please join me in recognizing Harrison for his remarkable commitment to #FeedCville .
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Jim Ryan
6 years
I honestly thought 3 people would show up. This morning, to my great surprise, 125 brave students and community members met me at 6:30 a.m. at the steps of Madison Hall for a brisk 4-mile run around Grounds.
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Jim Ryan
5 years
Students, athletes, and now @NCAALAX National Champions — my biggest congrats to the @UVAMensLax team and Coach Lars Tiffany on a hard fought, special season! What a year! #gohoos
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6 years
So good to be home -- and really looking forward to starting this @uva journey together! #FirstDayofSchool #Grounds #OursToShape
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5 years
Thanks to @UVAFootball for inviting me to workout this AM. While tired, sore, & in age-appropriate pain as I post, I wouldn’t have wanted to start my day any other way. You’re an amazing team & I can’t wait to see what you do this season...with me happily cheering from a seat.
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5 years
Regardless of tonight’s outcome, the highlight of the #SuperBowl already happened for me. Congrats to @UVA alum @JOEL9ONE on being named the Walter Payton Man of the Year — an award for outstanding service...something we’ve all known about Chris for quite some time. #greatandgood
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Jim Ryan
4 years
This is Pam Sierschula. Yesterday, while at home in hospice care, she graduated from the School of Nursing. I had the honor of participating in a special Zoom graduation ceremony with her, along with fellow administrators, faculty, and classmates — cheering on Pam!
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5 years
I’d love to see an analysis of grey hair count of university presidents before and after a #FinalFour run.
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1 year
Exciting news today from the University of Virginia!
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Today, @presjimryan announces an important change at the University that reflects what we truly stand for – and what stands for us. #GoHoos
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Impressed with the strength and resilience of our student athletes today, competing in men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, and wrestling. Thank you, win or lose, for being #UVAstrong .
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3 years
Apparently, this is how one celebrates an NCAA Swimming and Diving National Championship — and I wouldn’t have it any other way, @ADWilliamsUVA . Congrats, again! #WeWinWeSwim @UVASwimDive
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4 years
Lighting of the Lawn was, as my kids say, lit.
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Wahoowa! My biggest congrats to Coach Bennett and the remarkable @uvamenshoops team on earning the title of 2021 ACC Regular Season Champions.
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4 years
Tough loss tonight but a great game and season. Thanks to Bronco and the entire @uvafootball team for giving us so much to cheer about on this special ride. A final #wahoowa to you all, with deep gratitude and memories for a lifetime.
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1 year
Thanksgiving always calls to mind family.  UVA has never felt more like a family than it has over the last painful and difficult couple of weeks, nor have I ever felt more blessed and grateful to be a part of it.
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3 years
Ya Gotta Believe! Congrats to Coach O’Connor and the @uvabaseball team. See you in Omaha! #wahoowa
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5 years
Thanks @UVA community for keeping me going — today, & really everyday! Kudos to @UVAcurry on a fantastic job supporting this run and honoring teachers. Wahoowa-water station at Mile 25 is my favorite #BostonMarathon stop. Now, time for a giant, guilt-free cheeseburger...and beer.
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Jim Ryan
6 years
A final #ThankYouHaiku for Anne, my biological mother who I recently discovered. New to my life, yet my oldest life companion. For me, I thank you.
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1 year
Heartbreaking loss today. Not the way we wanted to end the season – but thanks to our student-athletes for an otherwise terrific men’s basketball season. Win or lose, go hoos.
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5 years
The final four may surprise you but the winner should not — a pick of both the head and heart! #gohoos #marchmadness
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5 years
Ready to go and so excited to still be dedicating the #BostonMarathon to teachers, this year through the wonderful @UVACurry school. Thanks to all who donated and looking forward to seeing some Hoos along the route!
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5 years
Aww! Thanks for this characteristically @UVA welcome at the check-in of the #BostonMarathon today. Seriously, it made my day.
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3 years
What a game! Great effort from a terrific University of Maryland team. Huge congratulations to Coach Tiffany, @ADWilliamsUVA , and our incredible @UVAMensLAX student athletes for bringing home another National Championship trophy back to Charlottesville. Wahoowa and Go Hoos.
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3 years
To the @UVAFootball program, for all you accomplished and endured in this unprecedented season, you have my gratitude and admiration.
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5 years
Tonight, we had the good fortune to catch @UVA alum Joe Harris play for the Nets against the Hornets. Joe took time after the game to say hello to my family & @ADWilliamsUVA – he couldn’t have been nicer! I invited him to the Wahoo Welcome Social, which is where I’m headed now.
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4 years
Hearing “Defending National Champs” for the first time brings back all those good feelings. #gohoos #letsdoitagain @UVAMensHoops
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5 years
Attending #UVAreunions this weekend was absolutely terrific! However, we did have an issue yesterday with a member of the Class of 1979 who seemed to have trouble following the rules. We’ve remedied the situation today with better, more clearly marked signage. 😉 @katiecouric
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5 years
Wahoowa and what a game! Big congrats to the @UVAfootball team and @UVACoachBronco on a thrilling #BelkBowl win. Let’s party like it’s 2005! #ryanfamilysingers
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3 years
Off to run the #BostonMarathon for nurses. To the 26 nurses on the back of my shirt, please be on standby. I may need your help in 26.2, if not sooner!
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2 years
Reece Beekman! Virginia Basketball! #wahoowa
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Jim Ryan
4 years
These are 250 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Troop 944 from Charlottesville arranged for these cookies to be delivered to nurses at UVA Health this week, in gratitude for their dedication during such difficult times. Please join me in thanking these inspiring 3rd-7th graders.
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5 years
Pardon the cliche, but this photo, and time spent with @pharrell on Grounds today made me #happy .
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5 years
My official entry in today’s unofficial caption contest regarding what @UVAFootball ’s Bryce Perkins is thinking in this photo: “ #NewStandard meets old.”
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4 years
“Change of shift at UVA Health. These construction workers are cheering on medical staff, but they helped build the new tower in the background that is helping us rapidly open over 80 new beds at our hospital. Heroes wear hard hats TOO!” -- Susan Goins-Eplee, RN Care Coordinator
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4 years
Best of luck to @UVACoachBronco and the entire @UVAFootball team. My game face for today. #CommonwealthCup #gohoos
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6 years
The absolute highlight of my day (if not month as President) was finally getting to meet the famous and fabulous Miss Kathy of Newcomb Dining Hall! Thank you for making @UVA feel like home through your humor, hugs, and humanity.
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4 years
Leaping over Duke.
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3 years
Gotta believe! Wow. #GoHoos
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5 years
Not a perfect bracket, but had Michigan State over Duke and the championship game is still intact. Just saying. #gohoos
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6 years
First day as @UVA president was warm, welcoming, and whirlwind — bookended by two real treats: a 5:30AM run with my wife and an end-of-day ice cream social with the community (and Cav Man!) #wahoowa
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3 years
Walk. Off. Home run. This is such a special team — wahoowa and on to Super Regionals, @uvabaseball !
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3 years
Wow! Thanks to everyone for cheering and tweeting and donating and keeping me going today. I couldn’t have done this without all of you. Off for a post-race beer, which I definitely will not nurse.
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2 months
Huge upset win for @UVAwomenshoops tonight at JPJ, in front of 11,975 fans, the largest crowd ever for a women's basketball game held in the Commonwealth of VA! Wahoowa and congrats to Coach Mox and this incredible team. I can’t wait to watch them in the upcoming ACC tournament!
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1 year
Katie and I would like to thank all of the wonderful students that spent some time up at Carr’s Hill this past week. It was really special having you with us, amidst the grief and uncertainty on Grounds.
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A national championship three-peat for our enormously talented UVA women’s swimming & diving team! Loved being there with @ADWilliamsUVA to cheer on Coach DeSorbo and our remarkable student-athletes – & yes, even join the champs for a celebratory jump in the pool! @UVASwimDive
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Exhale. Nice win, @uvamenshoops . Bring on Oklahoma. #gohoos #marchmadness
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6 months
One year later, we remain UVA Strong. @UVAFootball @VirginiaSports
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2 years
In Boston today, meeting with our @UVA alumni in Massachusetts, including one of Boston’s newest residents (and newest player for the @celtics )! @MalcolmBrogdon7 @UVAMensHoops @VirginiaSports
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5 years
Tonight was a good night. Thanks to everyone in the @UVA community for organizing & celebrating a wonderful tradition in the Lighting of the Lawn. Note: I’m posting to social media a video of my ‘Dad dancing’ before 25 other students beat me to it. #DanceLikeNoOneHasACameraPhone
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5 years
See you at @theACC tournament, @DukeMBB .
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4 years
Earlier today, Provost Magill and I shared this email with our international students:
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Jim Ryan
1 year
Yesterday was a particularly great day to be a Wahoo sports fan: men's lacrosse beat #1 ranked Notre Dame, women's lacrosse beat #11 ranked Notre Dame, UVA softball clinched their series against Pitt, and UVA baseball clinched their series against Florida State.
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3 years
Tomorrow, I’ll be running the #BostonMarathon for nurses. For the past few years, I have run in marathons to support an important group or cause, including teachers and Madison House.
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4 years
Every four years, we get a bonus day. Here’s to making it count. #leapday #bucketlist #gohoos
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1 year
Update: Police have the suspect in custody. I’m grateful to law enforcement for their extraordinary work in this search. Here is a link to today’s press conference: We will be working with student leaders today to plan for a community vigil.
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2 years
Four years ago today, I started as @UVA president. What an honor and privilege to serve this University. Thanks to everyone who has been with me on this journey, including the members of my staff who shared this ‘before and after’ photo with me this morning.
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5 years
Really hoping there’s a stress ball giveaway at the game tonight. #justkeepbreathing
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1 year
Below is a message I shared with the University community earlier tonight:
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3 years
Just back from a great 14-mile run with, then sort of with, then near, then sort of near, and finally somewhere in the same county as the UVA men’s cross country team. Best of luck to them in their first meet later this week. They look very fast to me! #gohoos
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1 year
Thanks to those who organized and joined this morning’s Community of Care 4Y5K / UVA Running Club Memorial Run. It’s been important to gather together as a community in different ways this week. As I said this morning before our moment of silence: you are all loved. #uvastrong
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Wahoowa on FOUR Straight National Championships from our Women’s Swimming and Diving team! Congratulations to Coach Todd DeSorbo, his staff, and our incredibly talented student-athletes on this remarkable accomplishment! Thanks for giving me another reason to cannonball.
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2 years
Yesterday, we played @UVA Move-In Trivia, where I asked new first year students on Grounds some questions about being a "freshman" on "campus," and who is UVA’s president.
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1 year
Today, I am honored to be wearing shoes designed by Gianluca Moriello, a remarkable six-year-old from Stuarts Draft, VA.
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2 years
Tonight, I’m having dinner at the home of Duke University ( @DukeU ) President Vincent Price. I’m looking forward to it, and even brought along a small host gift.
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4 years
This is our library staff. They have been doing everything they can to ease the transition for faculty and students to online learning. Please join me in thanking @UVaLibrary for their tireless efforts to help our community.
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Jim Ryan
5 years
Did you know @reddit was founded at @uvalibrary ? I bet @alexisohanian knew this one – and I’m glad visitors to Alderman will now know this too. Thanks for a terrific visit, Alexis and welcome back to Grounds!
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2 years
Best of luck to Coach Elliott and the football team this year! @UVAFootball @VirginiaSports
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Jim Ryan
5 years
Today is Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the US. Every morning, I pass the construction site of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, which will acknowledge & honor the 4,000 or more individuals who built & maintained the University.
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