A message to the Board of Visitors from a Professor Emerita of George Mason University
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A message to the Board of Visitors from a Professor Emerita of George Mason University
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BOARD OF VISITORS
Dear Members of the University of Virginia BOV:
I am writing to you as a "fellow" Virginia University "member", a mother of a U. Va. graduate, and grandmother of a U. Va. graduate & her husband. I am also a graduate of a Virginia State University.
My ties with the University of Virginia are deep and long-standing. I graduated from the College of William & Mary, B.A. Government and worked as a student assistant to William Abbot (later Professor at U. Va.) at the Institute of Early American History & Culture, and after graduation, assistant for collection of letters between Jefferson & Madison. One summer I sane in "The Common Glory," a Paul Green outdoor drama
telling the story of Jefferson and the writing of the Declaration of Indeendence. I am a member of Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, founded by Mr. Jefferson.
Now I am a Professor Emerita at George Mason University, having taught there for 26 years (including many classes in American Political Thought -- Jefferson again!), GMU, the "adult child" of U. Va.) and have met many times with Virginia Conference of Political Scientists at U. Va.
I am proud to be the mother of a B.A. & M.A. grad. of U. Va (who, with her husband, lives in Albemarle Co.) and grandmother of a recent U. Va. B.A. graduate & her (now) husband, B.S. in Computer Engineering, U. Va.
I write at length about all this not to wear out your eyes, but to indicate that I care enormously about the University and its community and its future. I have read and thought deeply about this current firing of the University President and the reasons cited for the firing.
I urge you to vote to re-instate President Teresa Sullivan on Tuesday.
Respectfully and with all good wishes for the entire U. Va. community,
Barbara B. Knight
(Emerita, George Mason University)
Dear Members of the University of Virginia BOV:
I am writing to you as a "fellow" Virginia University "member", a mother of a U. Va. graduate, and grandmother of a U. Va. graduate & her husband. I am also a graduate of a Virginia State University.
My ties with the University of Virginia are deep and long-standing. I graduated from the College of William & Mary, B.A. Government and worked as a student assistant to William Abbot (later Professor at U. Va.) at the Institute of Early American History & Culture, and after graduation, assistant for collection of letters between Jefferson & Madison. One summer I sane in "The Common Glory," a Paul Green outdoor drama
telling the story of Jefferson and the writing of the Declaration of Indeendence. I am a member of Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, founded by Mr. Jefferson.
Now I am a Professor Emerita at George Mason University, having taught there for 26 years (including many classes in American Political Thought -- Jefferson again!), GMU, the "adult child" of U. Va.) and have met many times with Virginia Conference of Political Scientists at U. Va.
I am proud to be the mother of a B.A. & M.A. grad. of U. Va (who, with her husband, lives in Albemarle Co.) and grandmother of a recent U. Va. B.A. graduate & her (now) husband, B.S. in Computer Engineering, U. Va.
I write at length about all this not to wear out your eyes, but to indicate that I care enormously about the University and its community and its future. I have read and thought deeply about this current firing of the University President and the reasons cited for the firing.
I urge you to vote to re-instate President Teresa Sullivan on Tuesday.
Respectfully and with all good wishes for the entire U. Va. community,
Barbara B. Knight
(Emerita, George Mason University)
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, “A message to the Board of Visitors from a Professor Emerita of George Mason University,” Sullivan Archive, accessed April 27, 2024, https://sullivan.lib.virginia.edu/items/show/53.