A statue of Thomas Jefferson stands in front of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., on May 16, 2020. Steve Helber / AP file ...

Bell Ringer Assignment Describe Thomas Jefferson's initial design for the University of Virginia. Describe the living conditions for faculty and students on the campus of the University of Virginia.

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Thirty years later, Jefferson busied himself in his retirement overseeing the construction of the University of Virginia, which welcomed its first entering class in 1825.

Jefferson — once he left the presidency — went on to found the University of Virginia in 1819. He believed that with the founding generation dying out, America needed its universities to ...

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Council president Thomas Neale, who graduated from the University of Virginia in 1974, stated that the tours shouldn’t erase Jefferson’s past as much as it should contextualize it.

When Jefferson founded the public university in 1819, it was uncharted academic territory. The idea of a public institution for the advancement of knowledge seemed to many like a reach.

The University of Virginia suspended a campus tour program that had been criticized for citing school founder Thomas Jefferson's ties to slavery, officials said Friday. The tours led by University ...