The Washington Examiner
By: Leah Fabel Examiner Staff Writer
January 14, 2010
Teresa Sullivan will leave a $366,000 salary at Michigan for $680,000, including benefits, at the University of Virginia. (AP)
Battles over affirmative action have shaped the career of the University of Virginia's incoming president, who has fought for more minorities on campus.
As provost at the Universities of Texas and Michigan, Teresa Sullivan managed the effect of two major legal decisions stopping student admissions weighted by race and gender. She intensified the universities' recruitment of more diverse student bodies even as the law required admissions to be colorblind.
At Michigan, Sullivan co-chaired a diversity task force after the state's 2006 decision banning affirmative action. She told the Detroit Free Press that the school would leverage existing programs to reach students in underrepresented schools and neighborhoods.Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/New-U_Va_-president-shaped-by-affirmative-action-8755977-81328292.html#ixzz0cd3LgxOr
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
University of Virginia picks its first female president
Washington Post
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Leaders of the University of Virginia on Monday elected Teresa A. Sullivan, provost at the University of Michigan, to succeed John T. Casteen III as president of Virginia's higher education flagship.
Sullivan, 60, starts work Aug. 1 in a post regarded as one of the most visible in public higher education. She will receive an annual compensation package of $680,000 and will be the first female president of U-Va., the school founded in 1825 as an "academical village" by Thomas Jefferson.
Like many in the top echelons of academe, Sullivan is regarded as both a scholar and an accomplished administrator. She has served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Michigan, one of the nation's most prestigious public universities, since 2006.
Sullivan, 60, starts work Aug. 1 in a post regarded as one of the most visible in public higher education. She will receive an annual compensation package of $680,000 and will be the first female president of U-Va., the school founded in 1825 as an "academical village" by Thomas Jefferson.
Like many in the top echelons of academe, Sullivan is regarded as both a scholar and an accomplished administrator. She has served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Michigan, one of the nation's most prestigious public universities, since 2006.
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