Virginia Echoes Harvard as Faculty Rises Up to Rehire President

From a hotel in San Diego, where he was attending a family wedding, University of Virginia Law Professor George Cohen heard about the unprecedented ouster of President Teresa Sullivan after less than two years in office.

Cohen, recently installed as head of the faculty senate, fired up his new iPad. Over the next week, he and his colleagues called, e-mailed and coordinated an irate faculty, a response that tomorrow may result in the equally unparalleled reinstatement of Sullivan as the university’s leader.