A fight over how UVA selects its faculty board rep

Image:  The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors increased faculty say in its affairs following its bungled 2012 attempt at firing then president Teresa Sullivan. In 2015, the still-penitent board even added a nonvoting faculty representative to its ranks. Now the board is signaling that it may cut that seat if it can’t help pick whom the faculty rep is. “The fact of the matter is, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, there’s no requirement that there be any faculty representative,”...