Green Dot to tackle income inequality with job hub
On a recent sweltering July morning, Toan Nguyen and Fabian Kuttner stood in a vast basement in the IX complex on Second Street Southeast. As forklifts rumbled across the warehouse floor above them, they explained how the raw space could be a catalyst for change. Despite its relative affluence, Charlottesville has an income gap problem, [...]
Albemarle approves visitors bureau marketing plan
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has backed off its threat to yank hundreds of thousands of dollars in accumulated tax revenue from the Charlottesville Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau, instead agreeing to spend the money on a marketing push to draw tourists to the area. The CACVB is funded by both county and city, [...]
UVA grapples with GE in electronic records suit
More than three years after it filed a $30 million lawsuit against the software company hired to design an electronic records system for its hospital, UVA heads to Charlottesville Circuit Court this week, and while the suit is expected to suck up an unusually large amount of the court’s time, it’s just the latest chapter [...]
Higher ed scholar says Sullivan reinstatement ‘unprecedented’
Leaf to the back of University of Georgia sociology professor Joseph Hermanowicz’s 2011 book The American Academic Profession: Transformation in Contemporary Higher Education, and you’ll find a familiar name. A few weeks ago, Teresa Sullivan’s contribution to the book, an essay on the institutional importance of university faculty that was written while she was still [...]
Quoting Thomas Jefferson at UVA
The ever-quotable Thomas Jefferson had plenty to say during his lifetime about governance, transparency, and the future of the university he founded. No surprise, then, that his name and words have been invoked a number of times over the last three weeks by people on both sides of the debate on Grounds over Sullivan’s resignation. [...]
Bypass opponents study plans, await environmental assessment
After decades of controversy and an unexpected revival, the Route 29 bypass project hit a key milestone earlier this month with the Virginia Department of Transportation’s release of contractor Skanska-Branch’s detailed plans for the 6.2-mile route around the traffic-clogged arterial.
Sullivan reinstated in unanimous Board vote
In a unanimous vote Tuesday afternoon, UVA’s Board of Visitors reinstated Teresa Sullivan as president of the University. The vote came more than two weeks after the surprise announcement of Sullivan’s resignation June 10, and just over a week after a divided Board voted to appoint an interim president, who then stepped aside as anger [...]
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Atlanta developer snaps up Landmark for $6.25 million
The shell of what was to be the Landmark Hotel was sold at auction in a Charlottesville courtroom last week to a property developer from Atlanta who paid $6.25 million for local investor Halsey Minor’s failed project, and hopes to turn it into one of a string of boutique luxury hotels.
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Dragas claims concerns justified Sullivan's ouster; faculty remain unconvinced
In the two weeks of turmoil that have followed the surprise announcement that UVA President Teresa Sullivan would step down in August, the University community has tried to understand why the Board of Visitors decided to force a popular president out of office just two years after appointing her.
Faculty Senate calls for vigil on Lawn during Board vote
UVA Faculty Senate Chair George Cohen has sent a message the University community calling for another show of support outside the Rotunda during tomorrow’s planned meeting of the Board of Visitors
Sullivan supporters rally again to demand reinstatement
Critics of the effort by UVA’s Board of Visitors to push out President Teresa Sullivan again rallied University faculty, alumni, students, staff on the Lawn Sunday afternoon in another show of support for a key demand: the reinstatement of the ousted president.
UVA interim president explains decision to step aside
Zeithaml: If I’m going to do this job, I’ve got to have legitimacy
Zeithaml steps aside, ends negotiations with UVA Board of Visitors
UVA interim president Carl Zeithaml is stepping aside, he announced in statement emailed to press this morning, saying "trust cannot be restored in our community until the President Sullivan’s status is clarified and ultimately resolved."
UVA Board to meet Tuesday for possible reinstatement vote
Three members of UVA’s Board of Visitors have called for an emergency meeting of the Board, set for Tuesday at 3pm, to "discuss possible changes in the terms of employment of the President." It’s evidence that Sullivan’s supporters on the 16-member Board—down a voting member after the resignation of Vice Rector Mark Kington earlier this [...]
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UVA Board under fire following Sullivan resignation
Outrage within the UVA community over the sudden and still poorly understood resignation of University President Teresa Sullivan is building to a head this week, and the Board of Visitors is bearing the brunt of the anger over the secret ouster.
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Board of Visitors’ Fralin voices opposition to Sullivan’s removal
Sole member of UVA Board of Visitors to vote against Zeithaml issues statement
Kington resigns from UVA Board of Visitors, signals need for “healing process”
UVA Vice Rector Mark Kington has resigned from his position, according to a letter sent to Governor Robert McDonnell today
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Carl Zeithaml appointed interim UVA President after marathon meeting
After more than 11 hours behind closed doors, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors has elected Carl Zeithaml, head of UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, interim president.
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Thousands rally for Sullivan; Board of Visitors stands its ground
More than 2,000 UVA faculty, students, and alumni took to the Lawn this afternoon in a strong show of support for ousted President Teresa Sullivan, who met briefly with the Board of Visitors.
Full text of Sullivan’s statement to Board of Visitors
Sullivan’s complete remarks to the Board of Visitors during a closed session today
Sullivan to Board of Visitors: Trust requires frank discussion
UVA has released a statement made by ousted president Teresa Sullivan to the Board of Visitors this afternoon, a seven-plus page document read aloud by Faculty Senate member and drama professor Gweneth West on the Rotunda steps as the Board carried on a closed-session meeting.
Faculty Senate supports resolution blasting Board over Sullivan ouster
In a near-unanimous vote, the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia on Sunday passed a resolution put forward late last week by its Executive Council that expressed strong support of ousted University President Teresa Sullivan and a lack of confidence in the Board of Visitors that apparently orchestrated her resignation.
Court releases auction bidders for Landmark Hotel property
Live auction of Downtown property set for Monday
Faculty Senate resolution expresses “lack of confidence” in UVA leaders
UVA’s Faculty Senate went a step further today in its criticism of University leaders over their ousting of President Theresa Sullivan, even as Sullivan’s own appointees encouraged cooperation within the community.
