If the board decides to look at candidates with top-level U-M experience and presidency experience elsewhere, Nancy Cantor, president of Syracuse University, and Theresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, both have to top the list. Both were provosts at U-M. Others with administrativ
By June, another unflattering distraction was at McDonnell's doorstep. When the University of Virginia's board of visitors a panel governors appoint abruptly fired university president Theresa Sullivan without warning, students, faculty and alumni rebelled. McDonnell stayed out of the imbroglio