Virginian Pilot: Why can't the UVA Oversight Board be more of a rubber stamp?

The Virginian Pilot has a problem with an oversight board actually, you know, overseeing. Especially true when it comes to education.

Read this editorial and see if you find in it any indication that the people appointed to the UVA Board of Visitors has a role other than to be cheerleaders for the University or provide unqualified support for it's administration. At U.VA., a return to tense leadership

Perish the thought that they should act as a Board of Directors instead of a pep band.

In the field of education, the Virginian Pilot believes that the issues should be left to the professionals; you know, the ones who manage the institution. Skyrocketing costs? No problem, have the State chip in more because everyone knows that the state doesn’t get its money from people’s paychecks; it has a secret stash.

Academic fraud? Don’t be silly, academics don’t lie or make stuff up and if you want to check it out you are a threat to academic freedom.

Academia is a bubble whose costs have gone ballistic and whose results are cratering but the Virginian Pilot demands that those who are appointed to oversee should be fired and the inmates running the asylum be given free rein.



Until the collapse, when we confidently predict that the Virginian Pilot will be there to shoot the wounded.