By Mary Nguyen Barry & Hajar Ahmed
From today’s op-ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, dubbed “the unluckiest president in America” by Fortune magazine, was just re-upped for two more years as president with a salary bump.
The news comes only two months after student-led protests broke out regarding a double-digit tuition hike and just two years after severe cuts to the university’s AccessUVa financial aid program drew national attention and protest.
Meanwhile, Sullivan was promised a $15,000 salary increase this year and $25,000 the following year — bringing her current $647,000 salary just south of $700,000.
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[H]ow will she devote her next two years to confronting the long-standing access, affordability and socioeconomic diversity issues at Mr. Jefferson’s University?
Read more at the Richmond Times-Dispatch.