Observers Say U. of Virginia Diversity Prowess Safe with Sullivan: When a highly selective institution garners an enviable diversity record as that found at The University of Virginia change at the top is bound to raise concerns. But those familiar with the school's new president say those concerns are unwarranted.
With a Black enrollment rate of nearly 9 percent and a Black graduation rate of 86 percent, according to UVa. data, the Charlottesville-based school has become the nation's student diversity success standard bearer. With the appointment this week of University of Michigan Provost Dr. Teresa Sullivan as president the question becomes can the university sustain its diversity record?
'I wouldn't even raise such a question,' said Dr. Clifton Wharton, who became the first African-American president of Michigan State University in 1970. Wharton mentored Sullivan at Michigan State.
