The controversy over President Teresa Sullivan’s ouster and reinstatement was framed as a question of whether academic or corporate values should govern higher education. This is the wrong framing. If we faculty rely on it, we will miss important questions. The right question is how any given institution of higher education should attack its long-range ambitions.
The day after U.Va.'s governing board reversed course and reinstated her as president, Teresa Sullivan joined other university presidents and legislators Wednesday at the state Capitol for ongoing policy discussions on challenges facing higher education. In Charlottesville, a resolve to move forward replaced the anger that had consumed the campus.
Even with Teresa Sullivan holding her job at Virginia, all in all, it's been a rough year for leaders of public universities. The universities of Illinois, Wisconsin and Oregon have all seen top-level changes in the past 12 months.
Questions — perhaps years’ worth — still linger about what happened in the past three weeks at the University of Virginia, but Wednesday, members of the university community were exhaling and taking a step back. “Today was a getting-back-to-business day for President Sullivan,” said university spokeswoman Carol Wood.
Danny Hultzen
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Steve Marino
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
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Research in urban planning is examining how we can obtain a more qualitative location on the map than just an omni-directional lat/long position. Guoping Huang, assistant professor and researcher in Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia, is combining GPS with digital compass technologies to produce way points on a map that emphasize direction. A GPS way point usually only gives us a lat/long or x,y position on a map that is ambiguous to any one direction. … Using geo-tagged photos, Huang collects visual references of a site into an ArcGIS map over the duration of the ...
Young writers from all over America are getting inspiration from our part of Virginia. The University of Virginia is holding its annual"Young Writers Workshop," but not in Charlottesville. Because of construction, the program has moved to Sweet Briar College in Amherst.
U.Va.s Institute for Environmental Negotiation held a public Coastal Flooding Workshop with partners, Accomac-Northampton Planning District Commission and Wetlands Watch inMelfa, Va. on June 13. Almost 200 people attended the event.
The University of Virginia got its president back Tuesday. President Teresa A. Sullivan was reinstated by the university’s Board of Visitors just more than two weeks after the same body forced her to resign. The vote was unanimous. “I’m grateful to the visitors for this renewed opportunity, but more than that I’m grateful to them for the example they have given us in reconsidering and reversing their previous action,” she told the crowd on the Lawn. “This is not a sign of weakness on their part, but a sign of strength and deliberation, and a good example to each of us.”
Shortly before one of my sons graduated from college in 1995, a terrible tragedy struck his university. A student in my son’s dorm murdered her roommate and then killed herself. This produced national headlines, but made no discernable impact on the school’s fine reputation. The next year it still had far more applicants for spaces than it had room for. The same thing happened after the massacre of students by a crazed undergraduate at Virginia Tech. That university’s standing in the highly competitive world of higher education was unaffected. Will the University of Virginia, looking bad at th...
When the University of Virginia Board of Visitors unexpectedly announced this month that President Teresa Sullivan had agreed to step down, the response from some students was: The board of what? Even those who knew the governing board existed didn’t know the reach of its power or that it has 16 voting members who are appointed by the governor for four-year terms. The U-Va. Faculty Senate is now pushing for faculty representation on that board, and others are advocating even more changes.
In the end, the olive branch trumped at Mr. Jefferson’s university. After 16 days of campus upheaval following the sudden ouster of President Teresa A. Sullivan, the 15-member U.Va. Board of Visitors voted unanimously Tuesday to reinstate Sullivan and to rescind the naming of an interim president. The board also approved a vote of confidence in Rector Helen E. Dragas of Virginia Beach. She helped engineer the president’s forced resignation, which sparked a faculty uproar, campus demonstrations, a debate on the challenges facing higher education and calls for Dragas’ resignation.
The University of Virginia's governing board reinstated its popular president Tuesday only weeks after ousting her in a secretive move that infuriated students and faculty, had the governor threatening to fire the entire board and sparked debate about how to best run public universities in a tight budget climate. The 15-member Board of Visitors voted unanimously to give Teresa Sullivan her job back during a brief meeting at the university's historic Rotunda. Afterward, Sullivan thanked the board for its renewed confidence in her leadership of the prestigious public university founded by Thomas...
Rage turned into elation outside the Rotunda on Tuesday, after the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors voted unanimously to reinstate President Teresa A. Sullivan. A crowd of about 2,000 chanted “thank you” at former university Rector W. Heywood Fralin, who engineered the vote, chanted Sullivan’s name and joined in a rendition of “The Good Old Song” after the weeks-long fracas ended. The chairman of the Media Studies Department, Siva Vaidhyanathan, called the vote an “amazing moment” for UVa, but said there is still work to be done.
The University of Virginia reinstated its popular president Tuesday less than three weeks after ousting her in a secretive move that infuriated students and faculty, had the governor threatening to fire the entire governing board and sparked a debate about the best way to operate public universities in an era of tight finances. The 15-member Board of Visitors voted unanimously to reinstate Teresa Sullivan during a brief meeting held at the university's historic Rotunda.
Teresa Sullivan's gonna keep her job after all. Today, the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia voted unanimously to reinstate Sullivan as president of the university. Her forced resignation two weeks ago was a case study in decision-making, crisis management and the changing business of public higher education.
The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors reversed course Tuesday, reinstating President Teresa Sullivan and ending two weeks of turmoil on the Charlottesville campus. The unanimous vote represented the best possible solution to the chaos that had roiled the university founded by Thomas Jefferson. It marked a graceful, unified conclusion to a divisive chapter in the university's history, one that wavered dangerously close to causing irreparable damage.