In one quick post please tell me what's going on at UVA

[Anonymous]

Too lazy to Google or read.

Tx

[Anonymous]

The lazy shall not be rewarded. No info for you!

[Anonymous]

The board fired their principal (teehee) without much warning.
Big backlash against the firing.
The school's reputation is suffering now.
VA's governor said 'Hey board, fix this or I'll fire y'all.'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The board fired their principal (teehee) without much warning.
Big backlash against the firing.
The school's reputation is suffering now.
VA's governor said 'Hey board, fix this or I'll fire y'all.'

Op here, great. Saw that WSJ Oped board has joined in the fray. Whose side are they on? Why did the fire the Chancellor?

[Anonymous]

they fired her because she was 'ineffective' and 'not producing' (the stuff that chancellor's 'produce')!

no idea about oped board stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:they fired her because she was 'ineffective' and 'not producing' (the stuff that chancellor's 'produce')!

no idea about oped board stuff.

Well, it's a lot more complicated than that. She was "ineffective" from the point of view of some, not all of the Board. She resisted the lure of $$$$$$$ in exchange for offering online classes. In short, she resisted the corporatization of UVA. She refused to sell out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-karpf/uva-boards-lazy-business-_b_1612319.html

Large, well-run organizations don't make a habit of jumping on every new fad. Yet this is exactly what led to the abrupt firing of President Sullivan -- she apparently wasn't ready to chase headfirst after David Brooks's latest fancy.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/25/questions-about-uvas-coo-strine-show-complicated-loyalties-administrators

See also:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/what-u-va-needs-after-the-sullivan-mess/2012/06/24/gJQAfB6qzV_blog.html

IMO this is emblematic of a larger and extremely serious crisis in public education--not just higher ed, but k-12 as well. The trend is to sell out to business interests, pure and simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The board fired their principal (teehee) without much warning.
Big backlash against the firing.
The school's reputation is suffering now.
VA's governor said 'Hey board, fix this or I'll fire y'all.'

Op here, great. Saw that WSJ Oped board has joined in the fray. Whose side are they on? Why did the fire the Chancellor?

Why should the school's reputation suffer because the president was fired?

[Freeman]

Anonymous wrote:Why should the school's reputation suffer because the president was fired?

Because there is a large, often bitter argument being played out in a public forum, involving the board, faculty, students, etc. No matter which side you come down on, if either, it doesn't portray the type of image that UVA would like to project. I doubt this will seriously harm them in the long run, but it is definitely detracting from the school's reputation in the short term.