The university said it would hand over $425 million now and put $75 million into a trust fund for people who allege in the future that the disgraced sports doctor sexually abused them.
The arrests of four protesters had inflamed an already tense racial climate at the university, which has endured white-supremacist leafleting and protests over demands for diversity.
The university’s Academic Senate, which includes professors and administrators, voted in favor of sending the “academic renewal” plan to trustees for a final vote.
“One of the challenges at this university is that it’s so historic — the ADA wasn’t around in 1819,” says Cory Paradis, who uses a wheelchair and majors in urban planning at the University of Virginia.
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Lucy Ferriss says we have enough to worry about in trying to teach students to think critically.
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