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Student's defense of Sullivan

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Student's defense of Sullivan

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Make no mistake: President Teresa Sullivan had an overarching vision for the University of Virginia, and anyone in the U-Va. community who had been paying attention knew it — including the university’s Board of Visitors. Unfortunately for Ms. Sullivan, it just wasn’t the vision of the board.

Come August, the board will remove a well-regarded president who fought to keep the school financially accessible to low-income students and for investment in all areas of study — not just science, technology, engineering and mathematics — and living wages for the university’s lowest-paid staff. Most important, the board will silence a president who dared to question its authority in making decisions on these issues.

How could the university community not be outraged by the closed-door politics of a tight-lipped Board of Visitors? Terry Sullivan will be sorely missed.

Brendan Wynn, Charlottesville

The writer is a student at the University of Virginia.

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, “Student's defense of Sullivan,” Sullivan Archive, accessed December 13, 2024, https://sullivan.lib.virginia.edu/items/show/103.

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