UGS has led campus tours for UVA since the 1950s. Starting in the ‘90s, the group expanded the scope to include the more difficult parts of UVA’s history.

The University of Virginia said Thursday it had suspended a long-standing campus tour service, but said the move was unrelated to complaints that the tours cast a negative historical spotlight on ...

The University of Virginia has come under fire for suspending campus tours that acknowledged founder Thomas Jefferson’s history of owning slaves. According to NBC News, the tours—which were ...

UVA is suspending the volunteer-led tours because of reliability and resource issues, not for focusing on the university's ties to slavery, as some claim.

A group of conservative alumni said the student-led tours were overly focused on the school’s history of using enslaved laborers. By Stephanie Saul The University of Virginia said on Thursday ...

For years, UVA’s University Guide Services offered historical tours of the campus. But a conservative alumni group was furious that they discussed slavery and other sensitive topics.