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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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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. [/quote]

So you acknowledge the hiring approach was politically motivated and abnormal?[/quote]

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

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
[i]"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."
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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
[i]“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. "[/i]

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

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+100[/quote]

Thank god Spangerberger appointed a bunch of apolitical moderates to right the ship.....[/quote]

Is this sarcasm???[/quote]

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