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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared a letter.
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jamelle
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my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Joe Fore
@joefore.bsky.social
· 10h
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6xW62HI5oZaP15xhmtbaemtBtqrNZR/view?usp=drive_link
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
@jamellebouie.net
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Joe Fore
@joefore.bsky.social
· 10h
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6xW62HI5oZaP15xhmtbaemtBtqrNZR/view?usp=drive_link
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2025-11-14T14:47:27.967Z
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6xW62HI5oZaP15xhmtbaemtBtqrNZR/view?usp=drive_link
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6xW62HI5oZaP15xhmtbaemtBtqrNZR/view?usp=drive_link
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
— Joe Fore (@joefore.bsky.social) 2025-11-14T14:15:31.937Z
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
Joe Fore
@joefore.bsky.social
The letter comes in response to another one sent to UVA faculty by Rector Rachel Sheridan.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14JEzO0de4CVk9kDtKssyB8_lf_EaClyh/view?usp=drive_link
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
@joefore.bsky.social
The letter comes in response to another one sent to UVA faculty by Rector Rachel Sheridan.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14JEzO0de4CVk9kDtKssyB8_lf_EaClyh/view?usp=drive_link
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The letter comes in response to another one sent to UVA faculty by Rector Rachel Sheridan.
— Joe Fore (@joefore.bsky.social) 2025-11-14T14:15:31.938Z
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Ryan and Sheridan provide full accounts of Ryan’s resignation. They differ significantly
In their first full public accounts since this summer, the former president and current rector dispute the circumstances which led to Ryan’s resignation
Photo by Kayla Moore | The Cavalier Daily
By Cecilia Mould and Ford McCracken
November 14, 2025
Former University President Jim Ryan and Board of Visitors Rector Rachel Sheridan have each provided, for the first time since Ryan’s resignation, full accounts of the circumstances which led to Ryan’s decision to step down.
Sheridan sent a letter to the Faculty Senate Thursday afternoon providing a detailed timeline of discussions with the Justice Department before Ryan’s resignation. Ryan, in response, sent a letter to the Faculty Senate Friday which shared an account he wrote this summer of the circumstances leading to his resignation.
“In light of Rector Sheridan’s letter, as well as the governor’s, which I do not think present an accurate accounting of my resignation, I am sending my document to all of you now,” Ryan wrote. “I am sorry for the slight delay. I did not send this to you yesterday because I thought it would be inappropriate to do so on the third anniversary of the tragic deaths of three of our students.”
The Cavalier Daily corresponded with former Rector Robert Hardie, whose term ended June 30, regarding the two accounts. He confirmed that he agreed with Ryan’s account. … “I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,” Hardie said.
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Ryan and Sheridan provide full accounts of Ryan’s resignation. They differ significantly
In their first full public accounts since this summer, the former president and current rector dispute the circumstances which led to Ryan’s resignation
Photo by Kayla Moore | The Cavalier Daily
By Cecilia Mould and Ford McCracken
November 14, 2025
Former University President Jim Ryan and Board of Visitors Rector Rachel Sheridan have each provided, for the first time since Ryan’s resignation, full accounts of the circumstances which led to Ryan’s decision to step down.
Sheridan sent a letter to the Faculty Senate Thursday afternoon providing a detailed timeline of discussions with the Justice Department before Ryan’s resignation. Ryan, in response, sent a letter to the Faculty Senate Friday which shared an account he wrote this summer of the circumstances leading to his resignation.
“In light of Rector Sheridan’s letter, as well as the governor’s, which I do not think present an accurate accounting of my resignation, I am sending my document to all of you now,” Ryan wrote. “I am sorry for the slight delay. I did not send this to you yesterday because I thought it would be inappropriate to do so on the third anniversary of the tragic deaths of three of our students.”
The Cavalier Daily corresponded with former Rector Robert Hardie, whose term ended June 30, regarding the two accounts. He confirmed that he agreed with Ryan’s account. … “I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,” Hardie said.
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