The president of the University of Virginia was forced to announce her resignation on June 10. The UVa student newspaper, the Cavalier Daily, used a Freedom of Information request to obtain emails between the Rector (i.e., chair) and Vice Rector of the the University Board of Visitors. The emails from Rector Helen Dragas and Vice Rector Mark Kington expressed great concern that a digital revolution was mounting in higher education, and UVa might be left behind. Their perception that the president was not moving aggressively enough into digital learning was apparently important in the ir decisi...
The University of Virginia is now effectively led by a man some on campus have termed a “puppet,” and whose interim presidency many faculty refuse to recognize. It may come as no surprise that Carl Zeithaml turned the job down twice before reluctantly agreeing to take it. Zeithaml, one of 11 academic deans at Virginia’s state flagship, was installed by the Board of Visitors as interim leader after 2 a.m. on Tuesday - - the timing alone says something about the turbulent circumstances behind the choice.
Nearly two weeks after Teresa A. Sullivan was forced to resign as president of the University of Virginia, a push to reinstate her appears to have traction. The Board of Visitors announced Thursday that it would meet on Tuesday to "discuss possible changes in the terms of employment of the president." The announcement follows a statement Thursday from the college's deans, who voiced support for Ms. Sullivan's reappointment. The Faculty Senate has also endorsed her reinstatement.
The University of Virginia governing board will meet next week to discuss whether to reinstate popular President Teresa Sullivan, whose abrupt ouster this month caused a massive revolt on the historic campus. Sullivan supporters on the Board of Visitors called for a special meeting Thursday after they secured what they believe are enough votes to retain her, according to current and former board members briefed on the conversations. She is scheduled to step down Aug. 15, under the terms of her forced resignation.
UVA interim president Carl Zeithaml is stepping aside, he announced in statement emailed to press this morning, saying "trust cannot be restored in our community until the President Sullivan's status is clarified and ultimately resolved." Zeithaml said he would cease negotiations with the University's Board of Visitors over the terms of his interim presidency, and end all activities associated with the role he agreed to take on earlier this week. He signed off of the message by identifying himself as Dean of the McIntire School.
Higher education is in crisis, and leaders like Teresa Sullivan, the recently dismissed University of Virginia president, bear a heavy burden of responsibility for not effectively leading. Simply put, high-quality universities have become too expensive and increasingly inaccessible because their presidents and other top leaders have failed to recognize and address the challenges and opportunities posed to their institutions by new technologies.
The recent firing of the president of the University of Virginia brought that public university into the national spotlight. But on Thursday, the Commonwealth of Virginia contributes only seven percent of the university's budget. Many other public universities receive similarly small percentages of their funding from state budgets, which raises the question — how public are our public universities? Robert Siegel talks to Eric Kelderman, reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
On June 10, former University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan abruptly announced her resignation pursuant to a vote of a quorum of the U-Va. Board of Visitors. The Board’s ultimate motivation for ousting President Sullivan remains unclear, and students, faculty, and alumni alike have vehemently protested against what many believe was an unwarranted termination of the popular, progressive, and effective Sullivan.
As a home builder in Hampton Roads, Helen E. Dragas has won praise for solving big problems decisively. Several years ago, she learned that a subcontractor her business hired had been using defective drywall that emitted an odor and raised concerns about wiring corrosion and health. Dragas decided to relocate people, tear out the drywall and rebuild more than 70 houses. “She did not have to be threatened. She did not have to be taken to court,” said former Virginia Beach mayor Meyera Oberndorf. “She just immediately made it right at her own expense.”
Before asking University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan to resign, Board of Visitors members and various trustees of U.Va.foundations worried that online college courses were being adapted by Stanford and other universities and that U.Va. was lagging behind. Emails released under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act between Rector Helen E. Dragas and Vice Rector Mark J. Kington show the officials and others in the university community discussed the need to develop online classes to reach new students, increase revenues and cut costs. Those were among the issues board officials cited ...
Earlier this week, as huge crowds rallied on the Lawn in her support, University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan signed an amendment to her contract outlining her severance package. Sullivan is set to go on sabbatical for one year when her tenure as president ends Aug. 15. She will receive her current base salary of $485,000 and perform duties at the direction of the Board of Visitors, including research and consulting. She also will receive a total of $50,000 for staff and office support for the sabbatical year. Beginning Aug. 16, 2013, Sullivan will have the option of remaining at U...
Speaker of the House William J. Howell, R. Stafford, said today that it would be "premature" to call a legislative hearing on the ouster of University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan. He said the situation is "still very fluid" and he is going to wait and see what develops before determining whether such a hearing would be productive. He added that a decision on such a hearing is "not a question of cost."
In the continuing turmoil after the abrupt ouster of University of Virginia’s president, Teresa Sullivan, on June 10, the university’s vice rector, Mark Kington, and a prominent computer science professor have resigned — and some faculty members say there may soon be enough turnover on the 16-member Board of Visitors that Dr. Sullivan could be reinstated.
Carl Zeithaml, the dean of the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and the man who will become the university’s interim president on Aug. 16, knows he has a rough road ahead of him. Accepting the interim position early Tuesday morning while he was still in London on a university trip, Zeithaml, a scholar of strategic management and the school’s dean since 1997, agreed to step into one of the most-watched leadership roles in the country. "I did not assume this role lightly," he said Wednesday at a press conference.
Victor De La Paz
A 2003 graduate from the Darden School of Business
Top Hartford School Official Leaving For Baltimore
The Hartford Courant / June 20
David Goldberg
A recent U.Va. graduate
ODU benefits Alzheimer's research with marathon day of indoor tennis
Daily Press (blog) / June 21
Bob Nastanovich
Who graduated from U.Va. in the late 1980s
'It Hasn't Been a Disaster'
Grantland / June 20
Andy Fahringer
A fourth-year student
Whitehall, UVA product to compete Saturday in javelin.
Bruce Bouocher
Director of the University of Virginia Art Museum
Museum of Biblical Art raises its profile amid array of challenges
NOLA.com / June 20
James W. Ceaser
Harry R. Byrd, Jr Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
James Ceaser on Political Constitutionalism
National Review / June 20
Amar Cheema
An associate professor in the McIntire School of Commerce
Does background noise make consumers buy more innovative products?
Psychology & Sociology / June 20
Dewey Cornell
The Linda K. Bunker Professor at the Curry School of Education
Charlottesville Conference Focuses on ...
Online management programmes have gained momentum among companies. While more and more companies want their executives to take up an online MBA because of the time factor, many institutes such as Glion Institute of Higher Education, Switzerland; Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C); UNC Kenan Flagler Business School and U21 Global, have found this market attractive. … There are also others, like U21 Global, that are entirely online based. U21 Global offers postgraduate programmes, and has big expansion plans. The graduate school is in close partnership and collaboration with four p...
There's a new weapon in the war on meat: a tiny tick, whose bite might be spreading meat allergies up the East Coast. A bite from the lone star tick, so-called for the white spot on its back, looks innocent enough. But University of Virginia researchers say saliva that sneaks into the tiny wound may trigger an allergic reaction to meat -- agonizing enough to convert lifelong carnivores into wary vegetarians.
Does your child have a tendency to argue? Don't worry, it's good for them, as a new study has found that those who regularly fight verbally with their parents cope better with peer pressure and are less likely to turn to drug abuse or alcohol. They are also more skilled negotiators and can "learn to be taken more seriously" after some verbal jousting with their elders, researchers from the University of Virginia have found.