Next U.Va. president should have background in student affairs, initial StudCo survey results suggest

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NEWSStudent Council says goodbye to outgoing president Emily Lodge, other executive board members



by Thomas Roades
| Mar 15 2017 | 49 minutes ago

















Student Council discussed the preliminary results of a survey of student preferences for the next University president at their weekly meeting Tuesday night.The meeting also marked the end of the term for fourth-year Batten student and outgoing Student Council President Emily Lodge, as well as several other members of the executive board. Third-year College student Maeve Curtin, the Student Council liaison to the Charlottesville City Council, gave a presentation to Student Council members on the results of a survey of the student body which Student Council recently conducted to determine what qualities and qualifications students hope to see in the next University president.University President Teresa Sullivan announced in January that she will step down from her position when her contract expires in the summer of 2018. The survey was conducted in an effort to include more student input in the presidential search process after several Student Council members were unsatisfied with the number of student members named to the search committee. The 22-member search committee includes just two students — Phoebe Willis, a graduate Law and Darden student and the student member of the Board of Visitors, and Aryn Frazier, a fourth-year College student. Curtin said the survey had garnered 450 responses so far, but encouraged members to continue sharing it in the hopes of gathering as much data as possible, emphasizing they only had the preliminary results.“We have enough to feel confident to write a report to give to the advisory committee,” she said. Curtin said the survey received responses from a fairly representative sample of the student body in terms of classes and in-state versus out-of-state students.





Approximately 67 percent of the responses came from in-state students and approximately 33 percent came from out-of-state students.Curtin then moved on to discuss ...

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