June 2012
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UVA Board to Meet Again to “Reconsider” Decision on Sullivan
It looks like the forces opposed to the coup now have the upper hand. UPDATE: Board Rector Helen Dragas issues statement defending the decision. This one has content–identifying problems facing the university–but does not indicate how President Sullivan was failling to address them. It also confirms that the dingbats on the Board were, indeed, obsessed…
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I have to agree with Spiros…
…NDPR shouldn't publish this kind of junk. But a quick glance at the editorial board will tell you who is responsible for it, and it isn't me or Gary Gutting! ADDENDUM: It does raise a question how the NY Times picked such a hack to 'moderate' a blog column on philosophy, though.
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UVA Board to Meet to “Reconsider” Decision on President Sullivan
It looks like the forces opposed to the coup now have the upper hand. A hopeful development for UVA!
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UVA Psychology Prof to the Board: A Grade of “F”
Here. ALSO a strong editorial by the Virginia student newspaper.
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How the American plutocracy works
The U.S. Supreme Court, over nearly forty years, gets a lot of the blame.
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Achieve Greatness: Jumpstart That US News Ranking
It's now clear from the UVa Board of Visitors emails that the Rector and Vice-Rector were worried about spin control early on in the process of forcing out President Sullivan. The Influential UVa donor and alumnus, John Paul Jones, joined that effort with his June 17 op-ed reasserting the need for a radical change in…
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UC Davis vs. UVA: or What a President Has to do to Get Fired These Days
Robert May, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of California at Davis, writes: I think there is an interesting contrast between the University of Virginia situation and that of Linda Katehi, chancellor here at UC Davis. We now know from the Reynoso report (discussed here) of Katehi's complicity in the violent act…
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UVA Board of Visitors Issues “Declaration”…
…with some help from Kieran Healy. The spear of satire was never better wielded. (Thanks to Matt Lister for the pointer.)
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UVA Board of Visitors Issues “Declaration”…
…with some help from Duke sociologist Kieran Healy. The spear of satire was never better wielded. (Thanks to Matt Lister for the pointer.) ADDENDUM: This is also apt on the lack of "business" sense among the business-people on the BOV.
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And on a more hopeful note…
…UVA's Larry Sabato tweets that this isn't over yet. So there's still a chance that Dragas is canned, and Sullivan restored to the throne!
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Members of the UVA Board of Visitors were, indeed, as dumb as we suspected
A nice piece of reporting by IHE: E-mail messages were flying among leaders of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia in the weeks leading up to the ouster of Teresa A. Sullivan as president of the university. The e-mail messages show that one reason board leaders wanted to move quickly was the…
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Miami’s Employment Data
Miami's Professor Froomkin corrects the record.
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UVA Board’s Vice-Rector (one of the miscreants) Resigns
I guess he can see the writing on the wall, and prefers this to being removed from office or having to answer to the legislature. I suspect Dragas's turn is coming. One may hope so.
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