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hi everyone Jim Ryan here I hope you're having a terrific weekend pardon the interruption but it's important that we share this exciting news today over the past year the university has been carefully considering how we might update our brand and Logo to align with the aspirations and values we hold dear during this journey of intellectual inquiry we asked a few essential questions we call ourselves UV a but why what does the a actually stand for after extensive reviews by several steering committees and focus groups along with the deliberation higher education is justly famous for we arrived at the difficult but clear conclusion that the A and UVA stands for well nothing this is a problem as an institution that aspires to be great and good in all that we do I firmly believe that every letter of our University acronym needs to stand for something consider these basic facts we are a university and we are of Virgin Virginia that takes care of the you and the v as