Virginia’s New Governor Moves Swiftly to Overhaul State University Boards
An excerpt from the NYTimes
Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia lost no time on Saturday in altering the tenor of the board that controls the University of Virginia, appointing 10 new members to the 17-member body within hours of being inaugurated. She also acted to revamp the boards of two other state schools.
The day before, she had asked five board members at the University of Virginia, all appointees of her Republican predecessor, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, to step aside. The swift change in university leadership followed more than a year of partisan acrimony over the university’s direction.
Conservative members of the school’s board, in alliance with the Trump administration, had moved successfully last summer to remove James E. Ryan from the university presidency, largely because of his support for diversity initiatives.