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Department: Quotes

“The committee very much didn’t want to, as it were, take anybody’s word for it. We wanted to do the work ourselves.”

 “The most important aspect of what we offer here is setting students up to be successful in a world that’s changing.”

 “There’s a booth that he goes into and changes from Clark Kent to Superman.”

It doesn’t matter if you’re an introvert or if you’re an extrovert, you’re not yourself. You’re representing something bigger.

“We really have to start teaching our students how to be critical. That’s the challenge. It’s an opportunity too.”

This year brought both incredible pain and incredible triumph ... We found purpose and healing in competing for something greater than ourselves.

We’re here for the students and the University. We try to do our work quietly and in the background as much as possible.

We just want individually to be stronger and our networks to be stronger.

As they currently stand, the U.S. News rankings fail to capture much of what we value at UVA.

We just want individually to be stronger and our networks to be stronger, and our networks are white, Black and everything.