At 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, about 1,500 people gathered at the University of Virginia to rally for ousted President Teresa Sullivan. A handful made their way to the first floor of the Rotunda, where they joined more than 13,000 people around the world in watching online as the board of visitors considered Sullivan\\'s reinstatement. The board was on the second floor, taking a vote that would transform the crowd\\'s nervous energy into a jubilant party. On the third floor, however, it was business as usual. U.Va. student Alex Halbritter began to lead two visitors on a regularly scheduled tour ar...
Events leading to and following the removal of University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan
A public power struggle at the highest levels of a pre-eminent public university isn\'t the best way to raise money from alumni, but it sure has gotten their attention at the University of Virginia. More than 6,000 of the university\'s estimated 200,000 alumni weighed in on the controversy with comments that the U.Va. Alumni Association delivered directly to the board of visitors, primarily through a website that the association set up to help past graduates make their views known to the people governing the university.
Host Melissa Block talks with NPR's Claudio Sanchez about Tuesday's unanimous vote to reinstate University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan. The university campus has been in an uproar since members of the university's board of visitors forced Sullivan out in a behind-the-scenes maneuver. Virginia's governor ordered the board to hold a formal vote on whether Sullivan should stay.
Facing a torrent of criticism, the University of Virginia trustees made a stunning turnabout on Tuesday, voting unanimously to reinstate the president they had forced to resign over concerns that the university was not adapting fast enough to financial and technological pressures. The decision by the governing Board of Visitors capped an extraordinary 16 days since the ouster of President Teresa A. Sullivan was made public. The turmoil that led to it opened a window on the pressures public universities face nationwide, asthey grapple with shrinking state support, rising tuition, the growing av...
Lyndsay Harper
A 2010 graduate
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The Daily Progress / June 25
Tami Wyatt
Who received her doctorate degree from the University of Virginia
Nursing professor receives award
UT Daily Beacon / June 26
Andy Fahringer
A graduate student
The Daily Run: A look at local athletes at the U.S. Olympic Trials
The Daily Progress / June 25
Bakary Soumare
A soccer player who was drafted out of U.Va. the in 2007
Report: Union ink defender Soumare
Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia / June 25
Richard Bonnie
A professor of law
Bioethics Symposium Examines 'Doctors, Politics and Conscience'
University of Wisconsin / June 25
Dewey Cornell
Linda K Bunker Professor at the Curry School of Education
Bullying finally taken seriously in many schools
The Daily Progress / June 25
Dotan Oliar and Christopher Jon Sprigman
Professors at the School of Law
Standup comedy and the rise of an informal intellectual property regime
Bloomberg BNA / June 26
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Virginia’s Influence
Virginia Public Radio / June 22
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Bush planting seeds for presidential pu...
Brandon L. Garrett
The Roy L. and Rosamond Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law
David A. Martin
A professor at the School of Law
In the history of the University of Virginia few, if any, of its entering presidents have inspired as much scorn and trepidation from the student body as Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. The former Virginia governor was well known for his less than enthusiastic views on the school’s fraternities. During his governorship from 1942 to 1946, he had voiced his opinion that the university’s fraternity houses were “expensive, restricted and ingrown.” When it was announced on March 30, 1947, that Darden had been appointed successor to John Lloyd Newcomb, fraternity houses were thrown into an uproar. The ...
Of the 498 chief executive officers listed on the 2012 Fortune 500 list, 46 hold legal degrees. All 46 hold J.D.'s, and Michael I. Roth, of Inter public Group (No. 358 on the Fortune list), is the only CEO to also have earned a legal master's (LL.M.) degree. (Two chief executive officers hold CEO positions at multiple Fortune 500 companies, which is why there are 498 rather than 500.) Roth's LL.M. is from New York University's School of Law, and he holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Those were two of the 24 law schools that granted degrees to the Fortune 500 CEOs. Eight of the ...
Job hunting is tough for many recent college graduates -- including want-to-be-lawyers. Members of the 2011 class of American Bar Association accredited schools had only a slightly better than a 50 percent chance of finding a potential long-term job within nine months of earning their degree, reports the Wall Street Journal. … Another point the newspaper confirmed with its review, the better a school's brand name, the better the job-hunting results. Traditional law school powerhouses such as the University of Virginia and Harvard University see at least 90 percent of their graduates find legal...
An earthen spiral extending into the Great Salt Lake, a person wearing a bowler hat and a sign that said “Oy,” and a ton of wide-open spaces were the hallmarks of a group of University of Virginia students’ summer journey this year. “It was really a road trip for people to make photography,” said professor William Wylie, who led the trip. It wasn’t exactly Kerouac. Students said the low-key, easy-going approach they took to a summer photography class yielded a newfound appreciation for dramatic landscapes and a fondness for avocadoes.
Trustees for the foundation that supports the University of Virginia's college of arts and sciences have joined the call for the reinstatement of ousted President Teresa Sullivan. A conference call Sunday of more than 50 current and former trustees found overwhelming consensus for Sullivan's return, Peter Brundage, president of the College Foundation, and Jeff Nuechterlein, chairman of the College Foundation Emeritus Society, said in a memorandum to the board of visitors.
When I was preparing to leave a vice presidency at Boston University to become president of the University of Hartford in 1977, John Silber, the legendary BU president, dropped by to give me a farewell word of advice. "When you get to Connecticut, the first thing to find out is who really does the hiring and firing," he told me. Silber was experienced in these matters. As dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, he had crossed the powerful Board of Regents chairman, Frank C. Erwin Jr. In 1970, when Silber would not accede to his will, Erwin told him, "Well...
The trustees of the Darden School Foundation endorse the statement to the Board of Visitors from the University of Virginia deans, including Darden's Bob Bruner, dated 21 June 2012, in which they call for the reinstatement of Teresa Sullivan as president of the University and a collaborative and progressive approach to meeting the challenges of the University. We do not make this suggestion lightly. We are aware of both the dedication and responsibility that the Board of Visitors has for the University and the fact that the Board members have acted in what they believe is in the best interest ...
Here at the University of Virginia, we have been goingthrough a traumatic couple of weeks. As a result of a reckless and radical move by the Board of Visitors to drive President Teresa Sullivan from her office, we have lost financial support, students, and talented colleagues. The board has damaged the reputation of this great institution. So we on the faculty are fighting to restore the reputation.
The University of Virginia has taken the spotlight making headlines all over the country. Backlash from the decision to oust President Teresa Sullivan by the Board of Visitors has grabbed the attention of many. The question now raised is if the recent actions by the Board have deterred prospective students and parents. "It was chaotic at first-I heard the President and it was like all these issues but really I know that the school will make the right decision and the Board will collaborate and decide correctly," said Liza Moore, a prospective student.
Recent events at the University of Virginia following the decision of the institution's governing board to remove its president afteronly two years in office have brought to light some questionable claims that have been animating educational reformers lately. In a statement justifying the Board of Visitors’ decision, the Board’s rector, Helen Dragas, asserted that U.Va.’s president, Terry Sullivan, was unwilling to make the kinds of changes necessary at a time when universities like Virginia are facing an “existential threat.” The times, Dragas claimed, call for a bold leader willing to impose...