Reactions to new President?

<p>From Governor Tim Kaine’s final State of the Commonwealth Address, January 13, 2010:</p>

<p>"And…I must take this opportunity to applaud the newly named president of the University of Virginia, Teresa Sullivan. The choice of a dynamic and experienced president to lead one of the world’s most important and historic universities is always worth celebrating. And what a wonderful thing to see a woman president at a University that did not even allow women as students when she began her own college education…</p>

<p>A second challenge is the need to keep our higher education system in the position of national pre-eminence that it currently enjoys. Fifty years ago, Virginia’s adult population received higher education degrees at less than half the national average. Today, we are well above the national average in the percentage of our citizens with a Baccalaureate degree, and we are the only Southern state that can make that claim. But, higher education attainment in Virginia has flattened out at about 40 percent. </p>

<p>While still good by American standards, we need to realize that the leading nations in the world are educating nearly 60 percent of their population with higher education degrees today. We have a huge gap that we need to overcome to maintain our strength in this important area. And we face an additional problem here – Virginia college tuition is now higher than national averages, effectively reducing access to many students who are most in need of educational advancement…"</p>

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