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UVA Board Member Defends Attempted Ouster of Univ. President

Helen Dragas, the UVA board member behind last summer’s controversial attempted ouster of University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan, says she doesn’t regret her controversial actions, and that they resulted in positive change:

Helen Dragas regrets the turmoil and anger that enveloped the University of Virginia last summer after governing board leaders privately asked U-Va. President Teresa Sullivan to resign. But Dragas firmly maintains that the board did the right thing.

The university was — and still is — in trouble, Dragas says, a stance she believes has been vindicated by a recent consultant’s report that paints the public university as elitist and in need of change. Sullivan’s ouster and reinstatement a year ago, though painful and embarrassing, pushed administrators to form long-term, strategic academic and financial plans, the outcome Dragas says she wanted all along…

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