McDonnell puts more educators on university boards after U-Va. crisis

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McDonnell puts more educators on university boards after U-Va. crisis

By Anita Kumar, Published: July 31
The Washington Post

RICHMOND — For decades, Virginia governors filled the boards that oversee the state universities with supporters, donors and friends.

But in July, after a leadership crisis at the University of Virginia that drew rare attention to that school’s Board of Visitors, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) boosted the ranks of educators on governing boards at universities across the state.
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Carly Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard chief executive and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in California in 2010, was appointed to the James Madison University board. Jennifer Hunter, a senior vice president for Altria, the parent company of tobacco giant Philip Morris, was named to the Virginia State University board. John Luke, chief executive of the MeadWestvaco packaging company, who has donated $70,000 to McDonnell and his political action committee, Opportunity Virginia, will serve on the VCU board.