Last Thursday, local radio personality Coy Barefoot addressed the employees, friends, and family of 107 Charlottesville businesses about the importance of being environmentally conscious: “Being green actually makes good business sense and improves the bottom line.
After more than two weeks of protests, speculation, and angst in the UVA community, the University's Board of Visitors unanimously voted Tuesday afternoon to reinstate Teresa Sullivan as president.
I’m a kid now, but when I saw Explosions in the Sky three years ago, I was truly a kid. Nineteen, I guess, at Merriweather Post Pavilion, stretched out on the wet grass of the lawn section and soaking up their opening set before Flaming Lips came on. Seeing them again at the Jefferson felt […]
Here’s the statement UVA president Teresa Sullivan read aloud on the Rotunda steps following her reinstatement by the Board of Visitors Tuesday afternoon. Today the Board of Visitors has voted to reinstate me as the President of the University. I have asked Heywood Fralin, former Rector and senior member of the Board of Visitors, who […]
JUMP TO: The U The Pols The Landlords The Investors The Entrepreneurs The Arts The Youth Movement Late last year, Forbes ranked Charlottesville the 13th richest metropolitan area in the country. Earlier this month, Richard Florida, a senior editor at The Atlantic, published his list of the “brainiest” cities in the U.S. Using data collected […]
The U Charlottesville is a company town and UVA is the company. The relatively small size of the city, its longstanding relationship with the University, and the fact that UVA runs its biggest hospital, real estate business, and media team, in addition to accounting for 12,500 jobs and a budget footprint of $2.6 billion, means […]
UVA’s Faculty Senate is holding its ground in opposition to Sullivan’s removal. Yesterday, Cohen sent an e-mail to UVA faculty members urging them to sign up for task forces and join the fight for Sullivan’s reinstatement. Cohen rallied his co-workers to resist the BOV’s coup d’état, saying, “With your help, we will prevail.” On Thursday […]
Ousted UVA president Teresa Sullivan issued a statement earlier today calling for civility in the debate over her resignation. Here’s the full text of her message.
UVA Rector Helen Dragas, head of the University’s embattled Board of Visitors, has issued a statement outlining the reasons she and others on the Board forced the resignation of Teresa Sullivan. The long letter was released to media by University spokeswoman Carol Wood Thursday evening. Here it is in full: In my statement to […]
Students and reporters surround Teresa Sullivan after her reinstatement as supporters joined her in a rendition of the Good Old Song. Photo by Graelyn Brashear. Click through these links to read our full coverage of the events surrounding President Teresa Sullivan’s resignation. BREAKING NEWS Full statement from Sullivan following her reappointment Video: Sullivan joins […]