Judge orders striking Virginia college board appointments.

A judge has ordered that eight university board members tapped by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin should be removed from their posts. His order is a victory for Virginia Senate Democrats who rejected the appointees in a June committee vote. Now the appointees will be immediately severed from their board seats at the University of Virginia, George Mason University and the Virginia Military Institute. The case comes amid the White House’s effort to reshape higher education, with a focus on DEI. Universities in Virginia have become a groundswell for political tension between academic leaders and the federal government, with boards at the center of those battles.