U-VA seems to be in repeat mode

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 related story suggesting that university boards – under pressure from budgets and such – are more likely than in the past to engage in U-VA type interventions.  Our Regents?

The two stories are at:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/02/virginia-governor-reappoints-controversial-uva-board-member

and
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/02/trustees-are-different-they-used-be-and-uva-clashes-will-be-more-common

Anyway, U-VA seems to be in the repeat mode:


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