UNIVERSITY of VIRGINIA Dear Members of the University of Virginia Community,
We are honored and excited to announce that the Board of Visitors has selected Scott C. Beardsley to serve as the Tenth President of the University of Virginia. He will assume his new position on January 1, 2026.
This decision follows a comprehensive, five-month search process led by the Special Committee on the Nomination of a President that engaged extensively with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other members of the UVA community. From a global search that yielded intense interest and over 100 nominations, the committee reviewed 27 candidates. At every stage, the focus remained on identifying a leader prepared to guide the University through a period of change while preserving the values and traditions that define UVA.
Scott brings exceptional qualifications to this role. He is currently serving a record third term as the David M. LaCross Dean of the Darden School of Business and as the Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration. During his time as Dean, Darden has achieved record academic rankings, expanded access for students, strengthened faculty excellence, advanced lifelong learning, and secured significant philanthropic support. He has led major capital initiatives, including for UVA Northern Virginia, invested deeply in faculty hiring and retention, and reinforced Darden’s global reputation for teaching and research.
Before dedicating himself to higher education, Scott had 26 years at McKinsey & Company, where he rose to senior partner, oversaw all learning and leadership development, and served on the firm’s global board. That experience shaped his approach as a thoughtful and visionary leader and talent developer with a proven ability to manage complex business needs and build consensus across diverse coalitions. Over the past decade, he has demonstrated how those skills can be effectively adapted to academia.
The Board was unanimous in its vote. We are confident that Scott’s leadership, vision, and commitment to the UVA community uniquely position him to serve as president at this moment. He understands the breadth of the University’s responsibilities across education, research, healthcare, athletics, and public service, and he brings a steady, unifying approach grounded in respect for shared governance and academic excellence.
We are deeply grateful to President Emeritus James E. Ryan for his service to the University of Virginia and for the care and dedication he brought to the presidency. We would like to thank Interim President Paul G. Mahoney for his effective and selfless stewardship of the University in a challenging time.
We also want to extend our gratitude to the members of the Special Committee on the Nomination of a President for their dedication to finding and recommending an exceptional candidate.
Scott will reach out to the University community in the coming days to share his excitement and the path forward. There will be opportunities to hear directly from him as he transitions to his new role and to engage in conversations about the future of UVA.
We want to thank each of you for your commitment to the University of Virginia and for all the recommendations, guidance, and fervor that went into the search process. Today’s election of the Tenth President reflects the input of many across our community, who support and care for UVA as we do. Together, we will move forward with unity, purpose, and pride in this extraordinary institution.
– The University of Virginia Board of Visitors
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McKinsey is a great company. My buddy worked there and learned so much. Hes learned to layoff all sorts of people. Hes laid off engineers, scientists, and even nurses. The layoff knowledge you gain at McKinsey is unprecedented. Im sure UVA will succeed...or whatevers left of it.
Man I hate McKinsey. Good luck!!!
Fun fact, one of the people most responsible for the Enron disaster was originally a McKinsey guy
Fucking exactly, thank you.
Because big business leaders do so well leading research Universities. I’ll wait to see what he does and what ideas he supports before I assume the time of being a Dean tempered any big business bias.
“Because big business leaders do so well”…? They actually don’t. Speaking as a UVA PhD with a background in HE journalism, the fact that this idea has taken hold so strongly in our culture is not rooted in careful study—it’s basically successful marketing… Business leaders are great at that.
In the context of academic cultures , though, business leaders are just as likely to whip campuses into complete turmoil and leave in disgrace as they are to successfully become embraced by the academic cultures. And as for the “secret sauce” that business leaders supposedly bring, 30 years in HE as a journalist and practicing academic have shown me that their ideas for “saving” schools boil down to precisely two: doubling down on STEM, gutting humanities to pay for it. Followed by dragging everyone through (very expensive) strategic rebranding exercises to sell it all to the parents and the public.
So I don’t actually have to wait to see what the Darden dean does. I’ve seen what he’s done—cooperated with a board and a governor with a whole-ass Christian nationalist agenda to reshape higher ed in Virginia … by putting Ken Cuccinelli back in power… in order, apparently, to make our world-renowned flagships into Liberty. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Personally, if I were in a search that got this political this fast, I’d put things on pause and try to make nice with the new regime. Spanberger is getting to replace 22 Youngkin appointees. So the folks hiring him with an explicit mandate and agenda are possibly ALL going to be replaced. The rector and vice rector are on thin ice, too, I hear. Fun times for all concerned but especially for the guy who decided to jump out of the frying and directly into the fire by accepting this job.
TL:Dr, skip the above. In my experience, STEM types make more effective leaders than business types.
Being a Dean makes it worse.
I never understand why tech/finance bros gotta come and fuck up our universities. Wouldn't you be happier running a hedge fund instead of slowly strangling academic institutions to death?
Veblen wrote about it a century ago - https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Learning-America-Thorstein-Veblen/dp/1602067473
Absolutely. Hopefully it won't be like Elon Musk's trying to "fix" the govt back in March.
We like the ones we have managing our endowment investments.
Eh, big business guys have way more historical ties to Universities than you seem to be implying. Rockefeller basically founded UChicago, and an industrialist of that period is as close to tech/finance bro of today as you can get.
Stanford was founded by a railroad magnate...and its modern incarnation was basically built by the defense aerospace industry and skunkworks.
Vanderbilt....well that one is obvious.
So yeah, one can make an argument UVA is different, but the idea of the 'current' wealthy taking a leading role in shaping major academic institutions is unique in history is kinda absurd.
They funded universities - they didn't try to run them. Unless you think Jane Stanford's idea that Stanford's psychology department spend its time figuring out which mediums were best at contacting her dead relatives was a good one.
I don’t think he said it was unique in history. He said that it sucks, which it does.
I don't know anything about Beardsley but I have absolutely no confidence in this board and how this process unfolded.
I knew nothing about him until he accepted this post under these circumstances, at which point I became aware that he's a craven turd.
A real leader from within the university community would never accept the job under these rushed circumstances.
As someone who works in executive search, just be mindful that a five-month timeline for a President (let alone at a top public, AAU institution) is absolutely insane even with a perfectly functioning governing board.
Wrong. Anyone can search the web and see that this timeline was normal.
Yeah, it took a year for JMU to replace Alger.
And if you look at the web to see Georgetown’s presidential search, a peer institution in research and academic caliber, you’ll find that their process took nearly 11 months—over twice the length this one had.
Well, damn. One datapoint is the same as a scientific survey, no?
Cool. So then where’s your scientific survey?
Vs your non-existing datapoints.
After reading this thread, let me be the first to welcome you to the internet, Mr. Bert Ellis.
Thanks for coming. Have a nice, brief, stay.
"search the web" oh god you boomer
Name one datapoint from your web search
https://drgtalent.com/how-long-does-an-executive-search-take/
https://millmansearch.com/insights/search-fundamentals/executive-recruitment-process/
https://altios.com/publication/executive-search-process-timeline-the-6-month-reality-no-one-wants-to-hear/
I think this is what the kids mean by “shady af.”
Sus
Bet.
It is INSANE to name a president on December 19 and announce he's taking the position on January 1. That is absolutely unprecedented, is unfair to Darden, and shows exactly what a rush job this is.
It is an obvious eff you to Spanberger. She told them to wait, so they install someone before she takes office.
Spanberger should wait until she is in office before she tries to run the state.
I’m a current Darden student and actually enrolled in a course that Beardsley is scheduled to teach January 5th - January 9th lololololol.
Yeah don’t think that J-term course is going to be taught by him, which sucks given it’s his connections to the guest speakers that got them there…
Yeah and that’s literally the last class I was supposed to take before graduation that I’ve been waiting 2 years for. Still holding out a sliver of hope though.
It's a great class. I did it this past year. Sorry it might get ruined. But the speakers are really what makes the class.
Thank you! Hopefully it still goes fairly similarly.
That’s the real issue in all this. They rushed in a guy over the governors objections, just to play politics. I’m surprised Beardsley took the offer. I guess he wanted to pad his resume by achieving the UVA presidency, even if it’s just for a short time. The man is very ambitious if nothing else.
We’re glad to be rid of him, to be honest. Bummed for the University though, on several fronts.
DeanYael
who do you think will be the next interim dean, Yael or MTH?
Yael if I had to guess, I assume that’s why they moved her back to Charlottesville and moved MTH to Rosslyn. Even though they were both supposed to take turns with both programs
Definitely Yael
Yael is great and her vibes fits cville more than nova imo. They could always bring Jeanne out of retirement to be interim dean again lmao, she’s got experience doing it
I agree, she loves it, plus her kids are finishing high school
Is this the same group that voted to rename the Kennedy Center?
I mean, he’s been Dean of one of the major schools for more than a decade. He already knows all of the University’s main players and systems. It’s not like he needs to relocate. How much time should he need?
I think he is referring to replacing him at Darden.
Jim Ryan resigned almost 6 months ago? Rushed??
Yes, rushed. The search committee didn’t have their first meeting until August. Didn’t talk to any candidates until September. Look up any other presidential search at an R1 university and compare the timelines. The search was absolutely rushed.
But even more so, the implementation is CRAZILY rushed. Go find another example of a university president (a permanent one, not an interim) taking office twelve days after being named. Spoiler: you won’t find one.
It’s not fair to UVA, to Beardsley, to Darden, hell even to Mahoney. I’m no university president, but I’ve always given more than 12 days notice to a job I’m leaving. Haven’t you?
University presidents are typically named 3-6 months out, allowing for a transition period.
Unless the BOV feels that Mahoney is dangerously incompetent (and there’s no sign of that), there’s only one reason to have Beardsley start on 1/1/26. And that’s to rush him into office ahead of Spanberger’s inauguration.
If he were truly — TRULY — the best choice to lead this university, would that be necessary?
Why would there be a 3 month transition period when there is an interim president? There certainly wasn’t one when Ryan stepped down. There’s nothing to “transition”
Also just because bureaucracy and bloat slow down other institutions doesn’t mean UVA needs to drag its feet. Any corporation would find a new CEO in 6 months.
If the political situation was reversed here you all would be cheering for this.
"We're so grateful to Jim Ryan for his service that we lied to him to convince him to quit so that we, members of the board who had been told by the incoming duly elected representatives of the state of Virginia to stop and who will likely be made obselete if not fired in about a month, can put somebody thats going to listen to us and not students, faculty, or staff."
Lied how? If Ryan had a legitimate defense against what he was accused of (outwardly skirting the law), the university definitely would have been there to defend him. He clearly had a damning legal case with audio recordings or something
Silly comment. Ryan quit because he was told, correctly and truthfully, that if he stayed on, the DoJ was going to extract billions from UVa's funding. I guess you think UVa would be better off if he had stayed on and 20% of the staff and faculty lost their jobs?
Giving in to illegal extortion actually doesn’t help the university as much as fighting it
It wasn't illegal and it wasn't extortion. The DoJ has a right to go after people and institutions that break the law.
Is this Pam Bondi's burner account?
It was clearly illegal which is why a Harvard has been continually winning. Obviously pretextual and arbitrary punishment doesn’t become legal because you attach obvious nonsense justifications
You are assuming they were actually breaking the law. That the government was declaring studies the looked at differences between how men and women react to medical treatment means they simultaneously denying men and women are different in the case of heath care outcomes and insisting they are when it comes to transgender care.
The administration doesn't recognize how hypocritical the act.
DoJ doesn't have "rights" lol
Ok, pedant. It has a duty....
Look, if you don't know what rights or duty are, you sure as shit aren't gonna know what extortion is
The traditional of dumping controversial news just before the end of the workday, then heading home continues at UVA. At least they didn't wait for mid-week between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Some claim it isn’t a partisan pick but it is partisan to accept the presidency under the current circumstances.
UVA is not serious about football and this proves it
This made me lol, thank you
So how long will he stay as the president is the question loll
Twenty four hours or less, I hope. He’s a disgrace to take this appointment under such corrupt circumstances.
If Spanberger runs him off you can kiss ever getting a great president in place. I think she's not that dumb. Dear God, I hope she's not. That would be dumber than Younkin appointing Razorblade Bert Ellis.
Oh he gone.
No way should this process have happened so quickly, without a full BOV and less than 2 weeks before a new governor takes office.
Oof, McKinsey 👀
What kind of "leader" would show such disrespect for his constituents? What kind of candidate couldn't wait another month?
Shame on the BoV and shame on Beardsley for taking a job offer from an utterly corrupt BoV.
So, liberal Hardie as rector got a liberal board to unanimously declare DEI is dead, but a conservative Board must be corrupt if it hires a non-partisan as President?
"conservative board" elects "non-partisan" as president, imagine believing that.
Sshhh he’s riding hard for this, you’ll hurt his feelings
This entire situation deserves national attention. Would it change the outcome, no it wouldn’t I acknowledge that. At least part of our population could be informed.
This guy’s first priority is going to have to be cleaning up the PR disaster around his hiring. Awkward.
Day 1 Spanberger agenda should be firing everyone
Unbelievably dumb move by the BOV.
Why?
Because they barely have enough members for quorum and have been told by the incoming governor and several other elected officials to cease their search until new board members could be seated, and thus the governor-elect might decide that they have operated with "malfeasance, misfeasance, incompetence, or gross neglect of duty" and legally remove them from the board. Though tbh they probably already met that standard through their conduct that lead to the resignation of Jim Ryan.
"He barely had enough yards for a touchdown!"
No one is saying they acted illegally, genius
Dead man walking.
Unless he rolls over like a puppy for the new power reality in the Capitol, he's toast within six months.
Youngkin's last limp move
Two weeks is a joke. From what I hear Scott isn’t a bad guy but unfortunately he will need to be removed.
Yeah. No.
Stupid move by the BOV but Beardsley is an ok selection.
That he would accept the role doesn’t speak very highly of him. Compare his CV with any of the recent Presidents, he doesn’t really compare at all.
Accepting this position at this moment is absolutely damning of his character, judgement, and ability to lead.
Are you saying Sullivan had a better resume? She was a mediocre scholar in a subject no one cared about. Beardsley is insanely ambitious, that has defined his entire career at Darden. It’s clear to me he took this job just to pad his resume. He has close ties to UVA, all his children went there since he began as Dean. I think he’s going to try his best to keep things steady, and will likely step way if asked by the next appointed BOV.
I mean 26 years at McKinsey and on the board is very impressive. It’s just not traditional.
At least it’s not Cucchinili or a politician.
"impressive" ok
Have you ever tried to (1) get a job at McKinsey and (2) then survive the up or out cuts every two years for more than 2 decades?
2 decades of being just good enough to not get cut but not good enough to get hired away
lol just being “good enough” okay…
Its not impressive its unqualifying if anything
Why? I mean UVA is, at its core, a multi-billion dollar business and hospital. Why wouldn’t you want someone with decades of experience advising large businesses and then multiple stints as a professional school dean? Plus, he’s got a doctorate in education with a focus in higher education management from Penn and a Masters from Oxford. What kind of CV is better suited to that? I’m seriously asking.
Plus, he already knows UVA well, to boot. I get the concerns about the process, but this seems like a perfectly unobjectionable—even good—pick.
And in terms of being controversial or some big MAGA guy, here’s the test: this guy’s been Dean of Darden, and no one in here knew his name until today. That tells me that he’s pretty good at keeping his head down, himself out of the limelight, and steering the ship.
Most presidents of the best research universities in the country have considerably more academic background than Beardsley. This is not disqualifying, but accepting the role from a greatly diminished, lame duck Board of Visitors probably is.
But how is “more academic background” relevant to the day to day job of being a University President? I’m not an anti-prof guy or anti-academia at all; professors and scholars are great. But what does having a plethora of academic publications have to do with managing thousands of employees, a multi-billion dollar budget, and navigating the local-, state- and federal-level politics that it takes to run a major research university, health system, and athletic program? Does having a long list of publications about literature or physics or history really matter more than decades spent thinking about—and doing—real-world management?
Again, I’m all for scholarships and take seriously the academic project. Those scholarly publications have value and should exist, and those talented scholars should get paid to focus on those tasks. But running a university is a fundamentally different job. So it can (should?) require someone with a slightly different background and not someone with a laundry list of publications or a Nobel prize.
Look, I think the BOV was shady as shit in dealing with Jim and rushing this search process. But the idea of rejecting Beardsley outright is a bit much for me. I haven’t actually heard anyone offer a specific substantive critique of him. Name something that’s he’s done or said that’s a problem, and I’ll be happy to be skeptical of him. But he’s been Dean of UVA’s highest-ranked school for more than a decade and hasn’t exactly run that into the ground. It you actually care about having a stable, functional, growing University, he’s probably the best pick anyone could hope for—even if the committee had all Spanberger appointees and took 18 months to do their job.
Participating in the current BOV’s nonsense is certainly the worst thing I’ve heard about Beardsley. Whether that’s disqualifying is a good question.
No it isn’t. Universities are not businesses, that attitude is wrong and dumb.
(1) yes, they absolutely are businesses—actually a conglomerate. They are a mash-up of (a) different kinds of higher education, from undergrad to medical school, (b) a major medical center, (c) sports franchise, and (d) nonprofit fundraising machine.
(2) of course, they are a unique kind of business. And this guy has experience advising other types of business AND over a decade of managing a major unit of an academic business—Darden. What more/better experience do you want?
They are not businesses. They are fundamentally different things with just some overlaps. Students are not customers. They are not buying degrees.
McKinsey is hardly training at running businesses anyway.
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There are unethical diploma mills but that’s not what a university does.
True. they are a version of non-profit entities closer to foundations with academical rules. Which are also entities that McKinsey advises and has strength in.
McKinsey is a big org that does tons of stupid and evil things, such as
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5155962/mckinsey-purdue-opioid-prosecution-doj
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/578802-mckinsey-employees-angered-over-firms-work-with-worlds-top-polluters/amp/
From Wikipedia: “The firm has been associated with a number of notable scandals, including the collapse of Enron in 2001,[98] the 2008 financial crisis,[98] and facilitating state capture in South Africa.[179] It has also drawn controversy for involvement with Purdue Pharma,[180] US Immigration and Customs Enforcement,[103] and authoritarian regimes.[102][101] Michael Forsythe and Walt Bogdanich, reporters for The New York Times, wrote a book in 2022 entitled When McKinsey Comes to Town about the controversially unethical work history of the company.[181][182]”
And they also are just a useless presence in tons of places. It’s foolish to assume a career with them teaches all that much of use.
Both my version and yours can be true at the same time. Assuming McKinsey/consulting firms are "purely" stupid/evil/useless is incorrect.
A good mental model would be - they are glorified janitors for CXOs to outsource their dirty decisions. Most often, their recommendations is what the client wants to hear but doesn't know how to prove, at other times the firms just misjudge give out a ridiculous opinion.
I took two of Beardsley's classes many many moons ago. He was a good instructor.
He doesn't have a Ph.D. or M.D. or J.D. An Ed.D. is generally viewed as a professional degree more than an academic one.
Of those 4 tho, wouldn’t a doctorate in education be the most useful as a university president? Also MDs and JDs are 100% more professional than academic degrees. Not saying I agree with the pick, just pointing that out.
Again. I didn’t say it was qualifying but only idiots should think it’s unimpressive.
Better than ok. He took an already very good school and made it world class. Good fund raiser and recruiter of faculty.
Every school I know of that hired a business dean [edit: as prez] lived to regret it. This was very much the fashion at HBCUs in the 00s, which had financial strains due to decades of being starved of resources, and there were some spectacular institutional blowups because of it. Main issues: Business leaders are antithetical to the idea of shared governance and apply for-profit principles that ignore academia’s nonprofit DNA. I’m sure we’ll see moves to shutter humanities and insert AI into everything. SMH.
The board doesn’t have a valid number of members.
Wrong. Five for a quorum.
SECTION 23.1-2201. MEMBERSHIP. A. The board shall consist of 17 members appointed by the Governor, of whom at least (i) 12 shall be appointed from the Commonwealth at large, (ii) 12 shall be alumni of the University, and (iii) one shall be a physician with administrative and clinical experience in an academic medical center. B. The alumni association of the University may submit to the Governor a list of at least three nominees for each vacancy on the board, whether the vacancy occurs by expiration of a term or otherwise. The Governor may appoint members from the list of nominees. SECTION 23.1-2202. MEETINGS; OFFICERS; COMMITTEES. A. The board shall meet at the University at least once a year and at such other times and places as it determines. Special meetings of the board may be called by the rector or any three members. The secretary shall provide notice of any special meeting to each member. B. Five members shall constitute a quorum.
From VIR Visitors front (click that)
Also: has the Alumni Association done its job as italicized?
There aren’t 12 alumni on the board at all. It’s not clear that the board legally can function, regardless of whether they have a quorum.
Here's a thought: maybe actually read the bylaws that I linked and then make an informed comment.
Is your argument that a quorum of five of an invalid board is still a quorum?
Sweetie, have someone read the document to you so you can understand that it is not an invalid board.
I can’t get over how they’re announcing this in the most tone deaf and oblivious way. Read the room UVA. It’s like a parent has an affair and forces a quicky divorce, immediately marries the lover and then expects everyone to live together happily ever after with zero resentment, bitterness, hate or drama. It’s never going to work. New “parent” as nice as they might be will NEVER be accepted. Doomed from the start. I just have no idea how Beardsley could think for one second this could ever work out well for him? What exactly is in his contract agreement?? Somethings veeeery fishy here. The whole thing is a fiasco and I hope Spanberger can clean house at the BOV and settle things down quickly.
The way UVA is going I’m starting to think about pretending I went to William and Mary instead. 🤬
Well, W&M was Tommy Jefferson’s alma mater.
thanks for telling us something we already know.
He worked for McKinsey for 26 years!! During the same time they helped fuel the opioid crisis. Helping them “Maximize value”
Big deal? It’s not like he had a personal hand in the opioid crisis. Or is everyone who works at McKinsey some evil mastermind to you?
He’s a pretty accomplished guy truth be told. Took an alright business school and turned it into a world class presence rivaling the major names of the day. Pretty eager to see what comes of this.
Did they pick another corporate billionaire?
Doesn't even have a Ph.D. Or an M.D. Or a J.D.
Not saying I agree with the pick, but why do those degrees make you more qualified?
I assume your question is rhetorical. Why should academic institutions be led by academics as opposed to business people? For the same reason that most businesses should be led by business people instead of academics.
Not at all rhetorical. I’m genuinely curious. I don’t know anything about running a university. I would’ve thought someone with a doctorate in education would be more qualified than a doctor or lawyer.
I think it's less about the specific degree and more about being an academic scholar with a background in research/teaching. Jim Ryan is a lawyer, but he's also a prominent legal scholar with a long career as a professor. Someone like him understands the faculty and the central purpose of a university, which is to educate and produce scholarship.
I agree, and I would say that Jim’s long academic career (including in education), rather than his JD alone, makes him more qualified to be a university president than someone without that experience but with an EdD. The comment I replied to was hung up on the degree itself, which made me curious whether there is any real preference among PhDs, MDs, JDs, EdDs, or whether the specific degree even matters at all.
A university is a business.
A university is only a business if you want to be paying for it your entire life, having received very little knowledge, and spent 4+ years eating the worst food you could possibly think of while living in a cardboard box of a dorm. Business people running inherently non-business public services, like education and government, is how you get massive enshitification and a simultaneous devaluation of that thing combined with massive price increase of it.
He is very close to completing his PhD at Oxford, He did this while being dean at Darden.
Edit: I stand corrected: it is indeed a Masters not a PhD.
Master's degree
not PhD.
Wait until the new governor….
Yeah I’m surprised I haven’t seen this higher up. Isn’t Spanberger just going to replace him quickly, like what is the point of this, does it matter?
McKinsey man. What could go wrong? Hope Spanberger fires BOV that she can but I won’t hold my breath.
Really not looking forward to seeing how quickly President Quisling enshittifies Mr Jefferson's Academical Village.
Good thing I also have a degree from William and Mary. They will be getting whatever support this crap economy allows going forward.
servitude has many forms
I was very close with one of Beardsley's kids and knew the family super well in Belgium. I've seen Beardsley and his family at regular intervals over the last 10 years since we all graduated high school and he's a super motivated, kind, well intentioned guy. His work at Mckinsey was in telecoms, nothing to do with their recent scandals, and he has more integrity than most people I've met in life. I'm not American and I don't know about your local politics but he's a good guy and will undoubtedly lead the University to great things. He's never failed at anything in his life, and he definitely won't start here as he likely takes this as his last professional appointment.
The most egregious thing about this guy is that he went to Tufts. An unforgiveable sin, imo.
A perfectly normal choice though, and someone already well-liked at the University.
Misc. corporate officials should not be in change of universities. They fixate on financial metrics over any other sense of public good or an intellectual or academic mission.
Great choice, and good work by the search committee.
You can always count on jolly square jumpin under every r/uva post to bootlick
Yeah. I do it because it benefits me personally. /s
Wait, so Youngkin made a good pick with Bert Ellis???