Will UVA's new president survive? should he?

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Anonymous wrote:If he had any sense of decency he’d offer to let them do a proper search.

Which would make him a more viable candidate.

This is insane. The council determined the hiring approach, not Beardsley. He doesn't get to decide that they have to do another layer of vetting.

So you acknowledge the hiring approach was politically motivated and abnormal?

[b]No, of course not. It's just nuts that you're trying to hold him accountable for a process that he didn't determine.

Either you're completely delusional or not responding in good faith.

The firing and subsequent hiring were clearly abnormal and politically motivated.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/14/jim-ryan-breaks-silence-uva-resignation
"Ryan wrote that UVA soon received an inquiry about why it was slow to dismantle DEI.

“The letter asked us to explain why we hadn’t complied with the Board’s resolution, though it exaggerated the scope and nature of that resolution, suggesting—as had Governor Youngkin on television—that we were supposed to eliminate the entirety of DEI,” Ryan wrote. “It was unclear, and still is, why the United States Department of Justice would have the interest or authority to enforce a resolution of the Board of a state university as opposed to enforcing federal law.”"

"“The rector, the vice rector, and others on the board conspired to oust Jim Ryan, and they made the decision to leverage pressure from the Department of Justice in order to enact that ouster,” Matthew Hedstrom, a religious studies professor, said in Friday’s Faculty Senate meeting."

https://facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-on-the-presidential-search-timeline

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2026/01/07/uva-presidential-hire-raises-process-concerns
“The presidential search, problematic from the start and resulting in this appointment, represents the Board’s continued failure to engage in authentic shared governance with the faculty,” the UVA chapter of the American Association of University Professors wrote in a Tuesday statement. “To accept the result of this tainted process and its appointee as legitimate would be to turn a blind eye to the misfeasance that has reigned at the university since March.”

Ann Brown, co-chair of Wahoos 4 UVA, a nonpartisan group of alumni, students, parents and other constituents, told Inside Higher Ed that she had concerns about both the process and the legality of the search.

“It was an improper search because it was initiated by a board that is not in full compliance with Virginia law,” said Brown, a UVA law graduate, citing the five vacancies."

"Youngkin stocked the state’s Boards of Visitors with multiple conservative donors and former politicians, stamping politics directly onto university oversight. "



Beardsley didn't have to accept the job and/or he could have made a statement about the flawed process.

+100

Thank god Spangerberger appointed a bunch of apolitical moderates to right the ship.....

Sarcasm detected. She appointed:

- Ralph Northam, the disgraced former D governor of VA, and

- handed out the rest of the appointments like candy to her top $$$ political donors (all of them are extreme progressives).

What? https://news.virginia.edu/content/gov-spanberger-appoints-10-members-uva-board-visitors
So of these 10, who do you think is just there because they are a donor?

BTW - Northam was appointed to the board at VMI. https://virginiabusiness.com/spanberger-names-27-new-university-board-members/

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Ignore the m*ga morons

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Anonymous wrote:If he had any sense of decency he’d offer to let them do a proper search.

Which would make him a more viable candidate.

This is insane. The council determined the hiring approach, not Beardsley. He doesn't get to decide that they have to do another layer of vetting.

So you acknowledge the hiring approach was politically motivated and abnormal?

[b]No, of course not. It's just nuts that you're trying to hold him accountable for a process that he didn't determine.

Either you're completely delusional or not responding in good faith.

The firing and subsequent hiring were clearly abnormal and politically motivated.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/14/jim-ryan-breaks-silence-uva-resignation
"Ryan wrote that UVA soon received an inquiry about why it was slow to dismantle DEI.

“The letter asked us to explain why we hadn’t complied with the Board’s resolution, though it exaggerated the scope and nature of that resolution, suggesting—as had Governor Youngkin on television—that we were supposed to eliminate the entirety of DEI,” Ryan wrote. “It was unclear, and still is, why the United States Department of Justice would have the interest or authority to enforce a resolution of the Board of a state university as opposed to enforcing federal law.”"

"“The rector, the vice rector, and others on the board conspired to oust Jim Ryan, and they made the decision to leverage pressure from the Department of Justice in order to enact that ouster,” Matthew Hedstrom, a religious studies professor, said in Friday’s Faculty Senate meeting."

https://facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-on-the-presidential-search-timeline

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2026/01/07/uva-presidential-hire-raises-process-concerns
“The presidential search, problematic from the start and resulting in this appointment, represents the Board’s continued failure to engage in authentic shared governance with the faculty,” the UVA chapter of the American Association of University Professors wrote in a Tuesday statement. “To accept the result of this tainted process and its appointee as legitimate would be to turn a blind eye to the misfeasance that has reigned at the university since March.”

Ann Brown, co-chair of Wahoos 4 UVA, a nonpartisan group of alumni, students, parents and other constituents, told Inside Higher Ed that she had concerns about both the process and the legality of the search.

“It was an improper search because it was initiated by a board that is not in full compliance with Virginia law,” said Brown, a UVA law graduate, citing the five vacancies."

"Youngkin stocked the state’s Boards of Visitors with multiple conservative donors and former politicians, stamping politics directly onto university oversight. "



Beardsley didn't have to accept the job and/or he could have made a statement about the flawed process.

+100

Thank god Spangerberger appointed a bunch of apolitical moderates to right the ship.....

Sarcasm detected. She appointed:

- Ralph Northam, the disgraced former D governor of VA, and

- handed out the rest of the appointments like candy to her top $$$ political donors (all of them are extreme progressives).

What? https://news.virginia.edu/content/gov-spanberger-appoints-10-members-uva-board-visitors
So of these 10, who do you think is just there because they are a donor?

BTW - Northam was appointed to the board at VMI. https://virginiabusiness.com/spanberger-names-27-new-university-board-members/

Did you check before you posted?

Owen D. Griffey, Jr. Contribution(s) Totaling $16,000
$16,000 - all to Democratic. Zero to Republican.

Amount Committee
$12,500 Spanberger for Governor - Abigail Spanberger.


Rudene Haynes: Contribution(s) Totaling $21,584
$21,584
Democratic
Amount Committee
$15,334 Spanberger for Governor - Abigail

DO YOUR RESEARCH.

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Looks like nearly all of her appointments are Spanberger campaign donors:



https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026/01/a-look-at-the-political-donations-of-spanbergers-board-of-visitors-nominees

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like nearly all of her appointments are Spanberger campaign donors:



https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026/01/a-look-at-the-political-donations-of-spanbergers-board-of-visitors-nominees

And.....

"at least five have donated to Republican-affiliated candidates or organizations in the past. One nominee, Peter Grant, has consistently donated to Republican candidacies."

"This figure includes $10,000 to gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears, who ran against Spanberger in 2025. Grant also gave $25,000 to Youngkin’s 2022 inaugural committee and $10,000 to his 2021 campaign for governor. "

"Harker has donated to several state and federal Republican candidates as well. In 2023, she gave $6,600 to Youngkin’s Spirit of Virginia PAC."

"He donated $2,500 to former Attorney General Jason Miyares’ (R) "

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Anonymous wrote:If he had any sense of decency he’d offer to let them do a proper search.

Which would make him a more viable candidate.

This is insane. The council determined the hiring approach, not Beardsley. He doesn't get to decide that they have to do another layer of vetting.

So you acknowledge the hiring approach was politically motivated and abnormal?

No, of course not. It's just nuts that you're trying to hold him accountable for a process that he didn't determine.

Perhaps if he had better educational credentials, he would be able to recognize a flawed process.

You people are ridiculous. He was wildly successful both professionally and as the dean of Darden. There was no outrage then or calls that he wasn't qualified. He has an engineering degree and an MBA from MIT. You want some academic with with no practical operational or fundraising skills? That is what the job calls for - to be a leader, not an academic.

You act like these are either-or things, like you can be a clueless academic or a leader. Actually you can be both, and you see both in the presidency of every top 25 school/SLAC (and almost all of the other t50-75 schools)…just not UVa. Which is embarrassing for UVa, to have a president with a diploma mill, pay to play degree. Yes, it is one,even if it’s from Penn.

Beardsley has an MBA from MIT. Ryan had a JD from UVA.

Ryan went through the usual vetting process. Beardsley did not. See the difference?

+100 the m*ga meltdown over the new board is laughable. You reap what you sow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like nearly all of her appointments are Spanberger campaign donors:



https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026/01/a-look-at-the-political-donations-of-spanbergers-board-of-visitors-nominees

And.....

"at least five have donated to Republican-affiliated candidates or organizations in the past. One nominee, Peter Grant, has consistently donated to Republican candidacies."

"This figure includes $10,000 to gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears, who ran against Spanberger in 2025. Grant also gave $25,000 to Youngkin’s 2022 inaugural committee and $10,000 to his 2021 campaign for governor. "

"Harker has donated to several state and federal Republican candidates as well. In 2023, she gave $6,600 to Youngkin’s Spirit of Virginia PAC."

"He donated $2,500 to former Attorney General Jason Miyares’ (R) "

Were you good with Bert Ellis? The guy who went after a student for a sign on his dorm room door?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If he had any sense of decency he’d offer to let them do a proper search.

Which would make him a more viable candidate.

This is insane. The council determined the hiring approach, not Beardsley. He doesn't get to decide that they have to do another layer of vetting.

So you acknowledge the hiring approach was politically motivated and abnormal?

No, of course not. It's just nuts that you're trying to hold him accountable for a process that he didn't determine.

Perhaps if he had better educational credentials, he would be able to recognize a flawed process.

You people are ridiculous. He was wildly successful both professionally and as the dean of Darden. There was no outrage then or calls that he wasn't qualified. He has an engineering degree and an MBA from MIT. You want some academic with with no practical operational or fundraising skills? That is what the job calls for - to be a leader, not an academic.

You act like these are either-or things, like you can be a clueless academic or a leader. Actually you can be both, and you see both in the presidency of every top 25 school/SLAC (and almost all of the other t50-75 schools)…just not UVa. Which is embarrassing for UVa, to have a president with a diploma mill, pay to play degree. Yes, it is one,even if it’s from Penn.

Beardsley has an MBA from MIT. Ryan had a JD from UVA.

Just a jd is fine for a top uni president who’s a legal scholar. There are no top uni presidents with just an mba. Beardsley has an mba + two yr pay to play Ed.D., which isn’t much better.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If he had any sense of decency he’d offer to let them do a proper search.

Which would make him a more viable candidate.

This is insane. The council determined the hiring approach, not Beardsley. He doesn't get to decide that they have to do another layer of vetting.

So you acknowledge the hiring approach was politically motivated and abnormal?

No, of course not. It's just nuts that you're trying to hold him accountable for a process that he didn't determine.

Perhaps if he had better educational credentials, he would be able to recognize a flawed process.

You people are ridiculous. He was wildly successful both professionally and as the dean of Darden. There was no outrage then or calls that he wasn't qualified. He has an engineering degree and an MBA from MIT. You want some academic with with no practical operational or fundraising skills? That is what the job calls for - to be a leader, not an academic.

You act like these are either-or things, like you can be a clueless academic or a leader. Actually you can be both, and you see both in the presidency of every top 25 school/SLAC (and almost all of the other t50-75 schools)…just not UVa. Which is embarrassing for UVa, to have a president with a diploma mill, pay to play degree. Yes, it is one,even if it’s from Penn.

Beardsley has an MBA from MIT. Ryan had a JD from UVA.

Ryan went through the usual vetting process. Beardsley did not. See the difference?

You are quite wrong. Read. https://jeffersoncouncil.org/news/191-uva-faculty-materially-mislead-the-uva-community

+100 the m*ga meltdown over the new board is laughable. You reap what you sow.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If he had any sense of decency he’d offer to let them do a proper search.

Which would make him a more viable candidate.

This is insane. The council determined the hiring approach, not Beardsley. He doesn't get to decide that they have to do another layer of vetting.

So you acknowledge the hiring approach was politically motivated and abnormal?

No, of course not. It's just nuts that you're trying to hold him accountable for a process that he didn't determine.

Perhaps if he had better educational credentials, he would be able to recognize a flawed process.

You people are ridiculous. He was wildly successful both professionally and as the dean of Darden. There was no outrage then or calls that he wasn't qualified. He has an engineering degree and an MBA from MIT. You want some academic with with no practical operational or fundraising skills? That is what the job calls for - to be a leader, not an academic.

You act like these are either-or things, like you can be a clueless academic or a leader. Actually you can be both, and you see both in the presidency of every top 25 school/SLAC (and almost all of the other t50-75 schools)…just not UVa. Which is embarrassing for UVa, to have a president with a diploma mill, pay to play degree. Yes, it is one,even if it’s from Penn.

Beardsley has an MBA from MIT. Ryan had a JD from UVA.

Just a jd is fine for a top uni president who’s a legal scholar. There are no top uni presidents with just an mba. Beardsley has an mba + two yr pay to play Ed.D., which isn’t much better.

All false. if you had bothered with wikipedia you would know that Beardsley has a

1) BS from Tufts in electrical engineering
2) a MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management
3) a Doctorate from Universityof Pennsylvania in higher education management (which is what this job is)
4) and will receive a M.Phil from Oxford this year for his work in A.I.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cav Daily reports:
191 concerned faculty request the University presidential search to restart
The faculty members asked the newly-constituted Board of Visitors to address unanswered questions about Beardsley’s presidency and pause the University provost search
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026/02/191-concerned-faculty-request-the-university-presidential-search-to-restart

And they were wrong. https://jeffersoncouncil.org/news/191-uva-fac...ad-the-uva-community

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If he had any sense of decency he’d offer to let them do a proper search.

Which would make him a more viable candidate.

This is insane. The council determined the hiring approach, not Beardsley. He doesn't get to decide that they have to do another layer of vetting.

So you acknowledge the hiring approach was politically motivated and abnormal?

No, of course not. It's just nuts that you're trying to hold him accountable for a process that he didn't determine.

Perhaps if he had better educational credentials, he would be able to recognize a flawed process.

You people are ridiculous. He was wildly successful both professionally and as the dean of Darden. There was no outrage then or calls that he wasn't qualified. He has an engineering degree and an MBA from MIT. You want some academic with with no practical operational or fundraising skills? That is what the job calls for - to be a leader, not an academic.

You act like these are either-or things, like you can be a clueless academic or a leader. Actually you can be both, and you see both in the presidency of every top 25 school/SLAC (and almost all of the other t50-75 schools)…just not UVa. Which is embarrassing for UVa, to have a president with a diploma mill, pay to play degree. Yes, it is one,even if it’s from Penn.

Beardsley has an MBA from MIT. Ryan had a JD from UVA.

Just a jd is fine for a top uni president who’s a legal scholar. There are no top uni presidents with just an mba. Beardsley has an mba + two yr pay to play Ed.D., which isn’t much better.

All false. if you had bothered with wikipedia you would know that Beardsley has a

1) BS from Tufts in electrical engineering
2) a MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management
3) a Doctorate from Universityof Pennsylvania in higher education management (which is what this job is)
4) and will receive a M.Phil from Oxford this year for his work in A.I.

But he doesn't have a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so he could never run a multi-million dollar, complex enterprise like a university and related health system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cav Daily reports:
191 concerned faculty request the University presidential search to restart
The faculty members asked the newly-constituted Board of Visitors to address unanswered questions about Beardsley’s presidency and pause the University provost search
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026/02/191-concerned-faculty-request-the-university-presidential-search-to-restart

Yikes.

"The faculty also wrote that Beardsley’s employment contract is a “poison pill contract.” If Beardsley’s employment were to be terminated without cause, he is entitled to receive payments equal to his salary for 12 months as well as paid sabbatical leave for up to 12 months — Beardsley’s base salary for 2026 is $1.3 million.

“It is unusual, perhaps unprecedented, for such a contract to be used in appointing a president by the University’s governing Board, the more so because we are a public institution,” the faculty wrote. “By making it prohibitively expensive to dismiss Beardsley, the contract effectively undercuts the Board’s and by extension the governor’s, the legislature’s and the taxpayers’ right and obligation to oversee the operations of the University."

Of course they did.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cav Daily reports:
191 concerned faculty request the University presidential search to restart
The faculty members asked the newly-constituted Board of Visitors to address unanswered questions about Beardsley’s presidency and pause the University provost search
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026/02/191-concerned-faculty-request-the-university-presidential-search-to-restart

Klantastic!


And they were wrong. https://jeffersoncouncil.org/news/191-uva-fac...ad-the-uva-community

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If he had any sense of decency he’d offer to let them do a proper search.

Which would make him a more viable candidate.

This is insane. The council determined the hiring approach, not Beardsley. He doesn't get to decide that they have to do another layer of vetting.

So you acknowledge the hiring approach was politically motivated and abnormal?

No, of course not. It's just nuts that you're trying to hold him accountable for a process that he didn't determine.

Either you're completely delusional or not responding in good faith.

The firing and subsequent hiring were clearly abnormal and politically motivated.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/14/jim-ryan-breaks-silence-uva-resignation
"Ryan wrote that UVA soon received an inquiry about why it was slow to dismantle DEI.

“The letter asked us to explain why we hadn’t complied with the Board’s resolution, though it exaggerated the scope and nature of that resolution, suggesting—as had Governor Youngkin on television—that we were supposed to eliminate the entirety of DEI,” Ryan wrote. “It was unclear, and still is, why the United States Department of Justice would have the interest or authority to enforce a resolution of the Board of a state university as opposed to enforcing federal law.”"

"“The rector, the vice rector, and others on the board conspired to oust Jim Ryan, and they made the decision to leverage pressure from the Department of Justice in order to enact that ouster,” Matthew Hedstrom, a religious studies professor, said in Friday’s Faculty Senate meeting."

https://facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-on-the-presidential-search-timeline

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2026/01/07/uva-presidential-hire-raises-process-concerns
“The presidential search, problematic from the start and resulting in this appointment, represents the Board’s continued failure to engage in authentic shared governance with the faculty,” the UVA chapter of the American Association of University Professors wrote in a Tuesday statement. “To accept the result of this tainted process and its appointee as legitimate would be to turn a blind eye to the misfeasance that has reigned at the university since March.”

Ann Brown, co-chair of Wahoos 4 UVA, a nonpartisan group of alumni, students, parents and other constituents, told Inside Higher Ed that she had concerns about both the process and the legality of the search.

“It was an improper search because it was initiated by a board that is not in full compliance with Virginia law,” said Brown, a UVA law graduate, citing the five vacancies."

"Youngkin stocked the state’s Boards of Visitors with multiple conservative donors and former politicians, stamping politics directly onto university oversight. "



Beardsley didn't have to accept the job and/or he could have made a statement about the flawed process.

+100

Thank god Spangerberger appointed a bunch of apolitical moderates to right the ship.....

Is this sarcasm???