Teresa Sullivan Michigan | UVA New President

Congratulations to Dr. Teresa Sullivan,formerly the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan, has been named the 8th President of the University of Virginia. Dr. Sullivan will be compensated no more than $680,000 annually and will serve a five-year term as president.

Women were not permitted admission to UVa. until 1970. Forty years later, Dr. Teresa A. Sullivan becomes the first female president of the university. “Let’s work hard,” she said in the close of her formal remarks in the stately setting of the Rotunda Dome Room.
She will take office in July and replace John T. Casteen III, who has been serving U-Va. for 20 years.In the 2010 U.S. News rankings of national universities, U-Va. ranks 24th overall alongside UCLA; the two are tied for second amongpublic institutions, behind the University of California at Berkeley.

From the University of Virginia press release:
Sullivan was unanimously elected by the University’s Board of Visitors today at a meeting in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. University Rector John O. Wynne, who chaired the board’s Special Committee on the Nomination of a President, officially welcomed Sullivan to the University community, calling her “an extraordinary talent who brings to the University an enormous depth and breadth of experience in every aspect of public higher education.”