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===Student leadership opportunities===
There are a number of UVA undergraduate leadership opportunities that are offered in addition to the standard student government or fraternity and sorority positions found at many other universities. They include UVA's [[#Secret societies|secret societies and debating societies]], the [[#Honor system|student-run honor committees]], and the chance to be recognized as a fourth-year student at the pinnacle of student leadership by being asked to live on [[the Lawn]].

The [[Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy]], established in 2007, expands on these unique student leadership opportunities to study Leadership itself as a cross-disciplinary subject of focus and is closely aligned with many of the university's schools, including the [[University of Virginia School of Architecture|Architecture]], [[Curry School of Education|Education]], [[University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science|Engineering]], [[University of Virginia School of Law|Law]], [[University of Virginia School of Medicine|Medical]], and [[Darden Graduate School of Business Administration|Darden]] schools, as well as with programs in politics, economics, and applied ethics.

The University of Virginia has a long history of student activists who formed radical environmental, religious, and political groups to champion various social changes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc%2Fviu03897.xml%3Bquery%3D|title=A Guide to the Social Movements Collection, ca. 1959–1989, 2000, and n.d. Social Movements Collection 9430-f|website=ead.lib.virginia.edu|access-date=February 28, 2020|archive-date=October 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001045813/http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc%2Fviu03897.xml%3Bquery%3D|url-status=live}}</ref> An especially intense period of student activism occurred in the 1970s during the May Days strikes against the Vietnam War.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uvamagazine.org/articles/antiwar_stories|title=Antiwar Stories: May Days, 1970: The week that would change UVA forever|website=Virginia Magazine|language=en|access-date=February 28, 2020|archive-date=February 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228165103/https://uvamagazine.org/articles/antiwar_stories|url-status=live}}</ref> More recently, the [[University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development|School of Education and Human Development]] and its Youth-Nex Center held a national conference in 2019 to promote student activism at UVA and beyond.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Conference-Held-at-UVA-to-Support-Student-Activism-564818771.html|title=Conference Held at UVA to Support Student Activism|last=Kempler|first=Carly|website=www.wdbj7.com|date=November 12, 2019 |language=en|access-date=February 28, 2020|archive-date=February 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228165059/https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Conference-Held-at-UVA-to-Support-Student-Activism-564818771.html|url-status=live}}</ref>