There is a huge mess at the University of Virginia. The President has been summarily fired by the Board of Visitors with no discussion with the UV faculty and no rational.
I can take no side since I know too little, however the one thing that is clear is that the traditional mode of governance at the world’s oldest public university is failing.
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