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Anonymous wrote:Paywalled but basically his “doctorate from Penn” is a two year Ed.D. from a cash cow, pay to play program

https://richmond.com/opinion/column/article_a6df09e0-5d84-411c-a780-c6416e28ddd3.html

There’s already a lot of prejudice towards ed schools and EdDs in elite academia (as in, the EdD is not the terminal degree unless it’s from Harvard Ed school or Columbia Teachers College) but a two year program made up of classes once a month, plus a week or two per summer, seems pretty skimpy. Definitely sets him apart from the presidents of the actual Ivies, AAU, or T20 schools. Not a great for UVa, besides all of the political issues with the appointment.

Gee, OP, maybe if you had given your post a thought before posting …. Or bothered to research the people and issues involved.. you might have realized you had it wrong:

1) the article you cite is not the opinion of the paper (and just a Richmond paper at that) but an editorial by a single guest author.

2) this author is a professor of education (yes, same degree you are making of) and has an axe to grind because her field is the diminishing one of race, diversity and DEI in education.

3) As a young academic, she needs to make herself relevant so wrote this trash to keep current with publications. Note it’s in a Richmond paper, not even Charlottesville or a national paper.

4) if you had bothered to even read up on Scott Beardsley’s background you would know he has: (direct from Wikipedia) “Beardsley graduated from Tufts University, where he earned a BS in electrical engineering. He subsequently earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He earned an EdD in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. As of 2024, he is completing a part-time master of studies in practical ethics (artificial intelligence) in the Department of Philosophy at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.”

5) the info in wiki is old. I believe Beardsley the Oxford MPhil degree now -so he has a hard science undergrad and three graduate degrees.

6) had you bothered to check in what people at UVA think (where I am now), you would have learned that the Presidency of any University is primarily that of fund-raiser and that Beardsley is renowned for what he has already accomplished in that area at UVA. No one is unhappy with his pick. Now you might find some liberal Spanberger types who try to trash him but so far nothing has stuck - and they are uniformly off grounds people (like the author of this piece) who don’t know what they are talking about.

7) the article you cite is old and was never picked up by any major publication for the reasons given above.

If no one is unhappy why did[b] the faculty write a letter?

Why do “some” not “all” faculty get involved where they are not wanted every time there’s an issue on any camous? Because they are protesters by nature and because they never have all the facts. You haven’t heard from that segment of the faculty since then, right? Of course not, they’ve gone off to protest something else. Also many were turned off by Ryan’s embarrassing self-serving 12 pages of excuses and whining. I was embarrassing for him. He actually admits in it that he shoukd not be held responsible for the discrimination at the Medical School in hiring and firing. Post the SCOTUS case. If not him, the. Who? That was his job. It was his job to deal with DOJ on the five discrimination cases but he failed to do that too. And he failed to bring UVA in line post-SCOTUS.

Go read the articles by the Jefferson Council. That’s actually what happened.

So you are with the Jefferson Counsel LOL

DP. Yup. The whiny hysteria about faculty is a dead giveaway. Who are faculty to “get involved” in campus issues? Just the people who teach all of the classes and do all of the research! How could they possibly know anything about what goes on day to day at the university?

What a nitwit.

Says the person who can’t even spell Jefferson Council correctly. Right … like you know what you are talking about

What is the average age of Jefferson Council members? About that of Trump and Biden?

DP

Still waiting lol what’s the average age of The Council?! Should we check their website?

White old bald men. https://jeffersoncouncil.org/leadership

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Anonymous wrote:Paywalled but basically his “doctorate from Penn” is a two year Ed.D. from a cash cow, pay to play program

https://richmond.com/opinion/column/article_a6df09e0-5d84-411c-a780-c6416e28ddd3.html

There’s already a lot of prejudice towards ed schools and EdDs in elite academia (as in, the EdD is not the terminal degree unless it’s from Harvard Ed school or Columbia Teachers College) but a two year program made up of classes once a month, plus a week or two per summer, seems pretty skimpy. Definitely sets him apart from the presidents of the actual Ivies, AAU, or T20 schools. Not a great for UVa, besides all of the political issues with the appointment.

Gee, OP, maybe if you had given your post a thought before posting …. Or bothered to research the people and issues involved.. you might have realized you had it wrong:

1) the article you cite is not the opinion of the paper (and just a Richmond paper at that) but an editorial by a single guest author.

2) this author is a professor of education (yes, same degree you are making of) and has an axe to grind because her field is the diminishing one of race, diversity and DEI in education.

3) As a young academic, she needs to make herself relevant so wrote this trash to keep current with publications. Note it’s in a Richmond paper, not even Charlottesville or a national paper.

4) if you had bothered to even read up on Scott Beardsley’s background you would know he has: (direct from Wikipedia) “Beardsley graduated from Tufts University, where he earned a BS in electrical engineering. He subsequently earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He earned an EdD in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. As of 2024, he is completing a part-time master of studies in practical ethics (artificial intelligence) in the Department of Philosophy at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.”

5) the info in wiki is old. I believe Beardsley the Oxford MPhil degree now -so he has a hard science undergrad and three graduate degrees.

6) had you bothered to check in what people at UVA think (where I am now), you would have learned that the Presidency of any University is primarily that of fund-raiser and that Beardsley is renowned for what he has already accomplished in that area at UVA. No one is unhappy with his pick. Now you might find some liberal Spanberger types who try to trash him but so far nothing has stuck - and they are uniformly off grounds people (like the author of this piece) who don’t know what they are talking about.

7) the article you cite is old and was never picked up by any major publication for the reasons given above.

If no one is unhappy why did[b] the faculty write a letter?

Why do “some” not “all” faculty get involved where they are not wanted every time there’s an issue on any camous? Because they are protesters by nature and because they never have all the facts. You haven’t heard from that segment of the faculty since then, right? Of course not, they’ve gone off to protest something else. Also many were turned off by Ryan’s embarrassing self-serving 12 pages of excuses and whining. I was embarrassing for him. He actually admits in it that he shoukd not be held responsible for the discrimination at the Medical School in hiring and firing. Post the SCOTUS case. If not him, the. Who? That was his job. It was his job to deal with DOJ on the five discrimination cases but he failed to do that too. And he failed to bring UVA in line post-SCOTUS.

Go read the articles by the Jefferson Council. That’s actually what happened.

So you are with the Jefferson Counsel LOL

DP. Yup. The whiny hysteria about faculty is a dead giveaway. Who are faculty to “get involved” in campus issues? Just the people who teach all of the classes and do all of the research! How could they possibly know anything about what goes on day to day at the university?

What a nitwit.

Says the person who can’t even spell Jefferson Council correctly. Right … like you know what you are talking about

What is the average age of Jefferson Council members? About that of Trump and Biden?

DP

Still waiting lol what’s the average age of The Council?! Should we check their website?

Anonymous wrote:Academic here: the best college administrators are not always the best scholars. Managerial skills and brilliant scholarship are not one and the same; often they don't co-exist. I can be as snobby about degrees as the next person, but for me the key to a great university president is not what they've published but how they handle students, faculty, parents, fundraising, community-building, etc

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Anonymous wrote:Paywalled but basically his “doctorate from Penn” is a two year Ed.D. from a cash cow, pay to play program

https://richmond.com/opinion/column/article_a6df09e0-5d84-411c-a780-c6416e28ddd3.html

There’s already a lot of prejudice towards ed schools and EdDs in elite academia (as in, the EdD is not the terminal degree unless it’s from Harvard Ed school or Columbia Teachers College) but a two year program made up of classes once a month, plus a week or two per summer, seems pretty skimpy. Definitely sets him apart from the presidents of the actual Ivies, AAU, or T20 schools. Not a great for UVa, besides all of the political issues with the appointment.

Another poster envious of UVA and grasping at straws. Give it a rest.

I’m not the OP. But any decent academic institution is led by someone who has experience doing true academic research and has been established academically.

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Anonymous wrote:Paywalled but basically his “doctorate from Penn” is a two year Ed.D. from a cash cow, pay to play program

https://richmond.com/opinion/column/article_a6df09e0-5d84-411c-a780-c6416e28ddd3.html

There’s already a lot of prejudice towards ed schools and EdDs in elite academia (as in, the EdD is not the terminal degree unless it’s from Harvard Ed school or Columbia Teachers College) but a two year program made up of classes once a month, plus a week or two per summer, seems pretty skimpy. Definitely sets him apart from the presidents of the actual Ivies, AAU, or T20 schools. Not a great for UVa, besides all of the political issues with the appointment.

Gee, OP, maybe if you had given your post a thought before posting …. Or bothered to research the people and issues involved.. you might have realized you had it wrong:

1) the article you cite is not the opinion of the paper (and just a Richmond paper at that) but an editorial by a single guest author.

2) this author is a professor of education (yes, same degree you are making of) and has an axe to grind because her field is the diminishing one of race, diversity and DEI in education.

3) As a young academic, she needs to make herself relevant so wrote this trash to keep current with publications. Note it’s in a Richmond paper, not even Charlottesville or a national paper.

4) if you had bothered to even read up on Scott Beardsley’s background you would know he has: (direct from Wikipedia) “Beardsley graduated from Tufts University, where he earned a BS in electrical engineering. He subsequently earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He earned an EdD in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. As of 2024, he is completing a part-time master of studies in practical ethics (artificial intelligence) in the Department of Philosophy at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.”

5) the info in wiki is old. I believe Beardsley the Oxford MPhil degree now -so he has a hard science undergrad and three graduate degrees.

6) had you bothered to check in what people at UVA think (where I am now), you would have learned that the Presidency of any University is primarily that of fund-raiser and that Beardsley is renowned for what he has already accomplished in that area at UVA. No one is unhappy with his pick. Now you might find some liberal Spanberger types who try to trash him but so far nothing has stuck - and they are uniformly off grounds people (like the author of this piece) who don’t know what they are talking about.

7) the article you cite is old and was never picked up by any major publication for the reasons given above.

If no one is unhappy why did[b] the faculty write a letter?

Why do “some” not “all” faculty get involved where they are not wanted every time there’s an issue on any camous? Because they are protesters by nature and because they never have all the facts. You haven’t heard from that segment of the faculty since then, right? Of course not, they’ve gone off to protest something else. Also many were turned off by Ryan’s embarrassing self-serving 12 pages of excuses and whining. I was embarrassing for him. He actually admits in it that he shoukd not be held responsible for the discrimination at the Medical School in hiring and firing. Post the SCOTUS case. If not him, the. Who? That was his job. It was his job to deal with DOJ on the five discrimination cases but he failed to do that too. And he failed to bring UVA in line post-SCOTUS.

Go read the articles by the Jefferson Council. That’s actually what happened.

So you are with the Jefferson Counsel LOL

DP. Yup. The whiny hysteria about faculty is a dead giveaway. Who are faculty to “get involved” in campus issues? Just the people who teach all of the classes and do all of the research! How could they possibly know anything about what goes on day to day at the university?

What a nitwit.

Says the person who can’t even spell Jefferson Council correctly. Right … like you know what you are talking about

What is the average age of Jefferson Council members? About that of Trump and Biden?

DP

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Anonymous wrote:Beardsley managed Darden, one of UVA's most prestigious and successful components for 10 years. He also rose through the ranks of McKinsey, perhaps the world's top management consulting firms. He certainly brings something to the table. I believe Ryan had a JD and not a PhD.

Yes but Ryan was on the faculty of UVA law for awhile and well published, respected in legal academic circles. He was also Dean at Harvard Grad School of Ed. So not just a random lawyer.

Yep Ryan is a top notch scholar in his field. Very well respected.

He got UVA onto thin ice.

Whatever, when all is said and done years from now, UVA will be worse off. A controversial president reporting to Spanberger’s board will be awkward at best. In the meantime, nothing will get done with misalignment at the top. Get ready for a few years is sitting in neutral while other universities pass by UVA.

Time to give it a rest.

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Anonymous wrote:Beardsley managed Darden, one of UVA's most prestigious and successful components for 10 years. He also rose through the ranks of McKinsey, perhaps the world's top management consulting firms. He certainly brings something to the table. I believe Ryan had a JD and not a PhD.

Yes but Ryan was on the faculty of UVA law for awhile and well published, respected in legal academic circles. He was also Dean at Harvard Grad School of Ed. So not just a random lawyer.

Yep Ryan is a top notch scholar in his field. Very well respected.

He got UVA onto thin ice.

Whatever, when all is said and done years from now, UVA will be worse off. A controversial president reporting to Spanberger’s board will be awkward at best. In the meantime, nothing will get done with misalignment at the top. Get ready for a few years is sitting in neutral while other universities pass by UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:Beardsley managed Darden, one of UVA's most prestigious and successful components for 10 years. He also rose through the ranks of McKinsey, perhaps the world's top management consulting firms. He certainly brings something to the table. I believe Ryan had a JD and not a PhD.

Yes but Ryan was on the faculty of UVA law for awhile and well published, respected in legal academic circles. He was also Dean at Harvard Grad School of Ed. So not just a random lawyer.

Yep Ryan is a top notch scholar in his field. Very well respected.

He got UVA onto thin ice.

Anonymous wrote:University President’s main job is raising money, Beardsley has amply demonstrated his capacity to do that quite well. In the end it is all about the money, not some contrived conservative or liberal philosophy.

Spanberger should be happy he is there, she will need to send less of the tax dollars she is raising UVA’s way.

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Anonymous wrote:Beardsley managed Darden, one of UVA's most prestigious and successful components for 10 years. He also rose through the ranks of McKinsey, perhaps the world's top management consulting firms. He certainly brings something to the table. I believe Ryan had a JD and not a PhD.

Yes but Ryan was on the faculty of UVA law for awhile and well published, respected in legal academic circles. He was also Dean at Harvard Grad School of Ed. So not just a random lawyer.

Yep Ryan is a top notch scholar in his field. Very well respected.

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Anonymous wrote:Beardsley managed Darden, one of UVA's most prestigious and successful components for 10 years. He also rose through the ranks of McKinsey, perhaps the world's top management consulting firms. He certainly brings something to the table. I believe Ryan had a JD and not a PhD.

Yes but Ryan was on the faculty of UVA law for awhile and well published, respected in legal academic circles. He was also Dean at Harvard Grad School of Ed. So not just a random lawyer.

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Anonymous wrote:Paywalled but basically his “doctorate from Penn” is a two year Ed.D. from a cash cow, pay to play program

https://richmond.com/opinion/column/article_a6df09e0-5d84-411c-a780-c6416e28ddd3.html

There’s already a lot of prejudice towards ed schools and EdDs in elite academia (as in, the EdD is not the terminal degree unless it’s from Harvard Ed school or Columbia Teachers College) but a two year program made up of classes once a month, plus a week or two per summer, seems pretty skimpy. Definitely sets him apart from the presidents of the actual Ivies, AAU, or T20 schools. Not a great for UVa, besides all of the political issues with the appointment.
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Gee, OP, maybe if you had given your post a thought before posting …. Or bothered to research the people and issues involved.. you might have realized you had it wrong:

1) the article you cite is not the opinion of the paper (and just a Richmond paper at that) but an editorial by a single guest author.

2) this author is a professor of education (yes, same degree you are making of) and has an axe to grind because her field is the diminishing one of race, diversity and DEI in education.

3) As a young academic, she needs to make herself relevant so wrote this trash to keep current with publications. Note it’s in a Richmond paper, not even Charlottesville or a national paper.

4) if you had bothered to even read up on Scott Beardsley’s background you would know he has: (direct from Wikipedia) “Beardsley graduated from Tufts University, where he earned a BS in electrical engineering. He subsequently earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He earned an EdD in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. As of 2024, he is completing a part-time master of studies in practical ethics (artificial intelligence) in the Department of Philosophy at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.”

5) the info in wiki is old. I believe Beardsley the Oxford MPhil degree now -so he has a hard science undergrad and three graduate degrees.

6) had you bothered to check in what people at UVA think (where I am now), you would have learned that the Presidency of any University is primarily that of fund-raiser and that Beardsley is renowned for what he has already accomplished in that area at UVA. No one is unhappy with his pick. Now you might find some liberal Spanberger types who try to trash him but so far nothing has stuck - and they are uniformly off grounds people (like the author of this piece) who don’t know what they are talking about.

7) the article you cite is old and was never picked up by any major publication for the reasons given above.

If you are truly at UVA now, how can you be unaware that 200+ faculty signed this letter expressing concern about his appointment? You sound very out of touch with what the UVA community thinks. Or you are trying to deny reality.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026/01/a-statement-from-201-concerned-faculty-about-uva-president-beardsleys-appointment

I hope these 200+ faculty members won’t be retaliated by their incompetent new president!

Now I regret suggesting my kid to apply RD to UVA because there’s no supplemental essay requirement.