Reactions to new President?

<p>And from TMCnews EDITORIAL: Short takes: Quick views of some of the week’s news.</p>

<p>"A new president for UVa Teresa Sullivan will be the eighth president to lead the University of Virginia, and the first woman to fill the role. We wish her well.</p>

<p>Sullivan brings solid academic and administrative credentials. She is the University of Michigan’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and also serves as its chief budget officer. In that post, she has learned to grapple with Michigan’s recession and its effect on higher education – a lesson she will find instructive in coming to Virginia.</p>

<p>UVa’s board of visitors expressed great confidence and enthusiasm for Sullivan’s knowledge and abilities. Her only drawback, it seems, is her lack of name recognition in Virginia. Hopefully, UVa alumni and students will in short course come to know Sullivan better, then welcome and support her in her new role…"</p>

<p>[EDITORIAL:</a> Short takes: Quick views of some of the week’s news.](<a href=“http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-editorial-short-takes-quick-views-some-the-weeks-/2010/01/16/4575715.htm]EDITORIAL:”>http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-editorial-short-takes-quick-views-some-the-weeks-/2010/01/16/4575715.htm)</p>