That's the bottom line here, from a Richmond newspaper, and certainly seems to fit the evidence, including the opaque statement issued by the Board:  a board full of "business" people, interested in gimmicks (like on-line education), could not cope with an academic administrator who cared about education.  You can get a sense for the strong support President Sullivan enjoyed among faculty leaders from this open letter signed by several dozen department chairs.  But perhaps that's the real story here:  she was an academic leader, but UVA is now in the grips of non-academics with very different agendas.