For most of WTJU's fifty-one year history at the University of Virginia the station has been either a student organization or an administrative department within Student Affairs. On July 1, 2008 WTJU's reporting line changed from the Division of Student Affairs to the Office of Public Affairs. Station management now reports to Carol Wood, Assistant Vice President of Public Affairs.

WTJU's was imagined much earlier but in 1955 Kappa Delta Pi fraternity put up funds to help the Department of Speech and Drama start an educational radio station at the University of Virginia. Under the faculty sponsorship of George P. Wilson, professor of Speech and Drama, UVA students began limited broadcasting from WTJU studios on April 1, 1957.

From 1968 until 1993 WTJU was a University Contracted Independent Organization (CIO), administered by Student Council. By 1986, in acknowledgement of the steadily increasing participation of community members at WTJU, the station received special CIO status that allowed up to 3/5 of members of the Board of Directors to come from the community.

In 1987 the University of Virginia Committee for WTJU was formed, initiated by Professor Bernard Mayes and Ron Stump, the Associate Dean of Students, to whom the Board was reporting. Reflecting the changing structure of WTJU the new advisory group consisted of students, faculty, staff and community members.

In 1992 the executive branch of the University decided to establish the station as an administrative department under the Office of the Dean of Students. Dean Ron Stump led the search for a manager, and Chuck Taylor was hired in 1993.

In 1996 Associate Dean Stump left the University to become Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Dean of Students, Robert Canevari, took over the administration of WTJU. But later that year and at the suggestion of Vice President of Student Affairs, William Harmon, WTJU moved up the University reporting line directly to the Vice President of Student Affairs.

Harmon became a Senior Vice President at the University in June of 2001 and later left U.Va. for Houston Community College.

Patricia Lampkin was hired in October 2002 to replace Harmon as Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Officer and was WTJU's immediate overseer until Christina Morell (Associate Vice President for Student Affairs) took over as primary liaison with the management of WTJU.

WTJU sincerely thanks Patricia Lampkin and Christina Morell and all the others mentioned above for their generous support, both financial and philosophical, of our operation during the many years within the Division of Student Affairs. And we look forward to a long and creative partnership with our new friends in the Office of Public Affairs.