Love Birds at U-VA

The University of Virginia seems to be in something of a repeat mode, according to Inside Higher Ed.  If you have been following our posts on this drama, the head of the university’s Board of Visitors fired the U-VA president and then unfired her when protests erupted.  At a critical point, the state governor became involved with a seeming threat to fire the whole board, including the head, if the issue was not resolved. Now that the president has not been fired, neither has the head of the Board who the governor has now reappointed.  Inside Higher Ed has a…

According to Inside Higher Ed, the U of Virginia Board of Visitors has unfired that university’s president.  Presumably, however, the controversy as to what happened in both the firing and the unfiring will echo for some time. The news item is at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/26/uva-board-reinstates-sullivan-president

Inside Higher Ed carries two items on the ongoing controversy set in motion by the firing of the president of the University of Virginia by its Board of Visitors (the U-VA’s equivalent of the Regents).  One item suggests that a high-up underling – the chief financial officer of the university – was in cahoots with those members of the Board who carried out the firing.  See http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/25/questions-about-uvas-coo-strine-show-complicated-loyalties-administrators. The Board is due to meet tomorrow – possibly to undo what it did.  However, now it faces a missive from the state’s governor that says: “Let me be absolutely clear: I want…

The U of Virginia story just keeps rolling: 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 [equivalent of the Regents]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… Full story at http://chronicle.com/article/What-If-Sullivan-Is/132517/ The University of Virginia library staff is archiving materials…

For those following the University of Virginia saga of the fired president, there is this from the Washington Post: Sullivan supporters plot to reinstate her as U-Va. president: Several members of the University of Virginia’s governing board spent Wednesday quietly counting votes and plotting a move to reinstate Teresa Sullivan after the popular outgoing president informed them that she wants to remain if Rector Helen E. Dragas resigns, according to current and former board members briefed on the conversations. Sullivan holds such broad support among professors that the Faculty Senate chairman held out hope that she could be reinstated following the resignation…