When UT Appeared to Be in UVA's Shoes, Many Spoke Out
On Tuesday, the University of Virginia reinstated President Teresa Sullivan after her forced resignation this month sparked a dramatic outcry. Throughout the ordeal, observers have drawn parallels to Sullivan’s former stomping grounds: the University of Texas at Austin, where she worked for nearly three decades.
For the last year and a half, speculation has swirled about the intentions of some University of Texas System regents. Many feared that those regents — appointed by Gov. Rick Perry — were put in place to implement a controversial set of dramatic policy changes the governor had promoted that some criticized for being anti-academic and ...
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Rick Cherwitz
I am so delighted that Terry Sullivan, my former boss at UT (Vice President and Dean of Graduate Studies), was reinstated at UVA. She is one of the most professional and ethical academic leaders with whom I have worked in three decades. Her reinstatement is unprecedented, underscoring the need for us to remain vigilant. I hope that the most recent developments at UVA prove that civil discourse and vigorous public deliberation are possible.
T D
Happy to see this, but I'm surprised that it took the Trib so long to address this story.
Four paragraphs on outlier emails was a bit much, however. When a journalist calls out typos from electronic communications, it's a pretty good sign that he's not fully committed to the topic.
Texas Longhorns
Decent reporting here, Reeve.
But really, did you even have to put up a link to that awful "willisms" article? There wasn't any backlash to the facebook page (as you erroneously wrote "quickly replaced by backlash as people learned that the total was artificially inflated"). The group continues to grow, and it is a shame you even mentioned that poorly research article.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
The reference to the backlash was based upon a blog posting by a Republican communication strategist, whose last job was communications director for the Perry Inauguration Committee and before that was manager of online communications director of Texans for Rick Perry. A blog posting by a Republican operator becomes a "backlash". Does one blog posting by one guy constitute a backlash? I can understand wanting to try to be balanced, but this is simply stupid.