Darden, part 2

The more I read about the Teresa Sullivan ouster, the more sense it makes.
Times are changing, and Jeff Shapiro buries the theme in his story Sunday.
Read to the end, and hear the experience of Colgate Darden.
Darden became president of U.Va. in 1947, a year after leaving the governorship. When he arrived at his alma mater, he found a public school in name only, a cushy, red-brick, hunt-country oasis for the privately educated sons of privilege.
Recognizing that World War II had opened the state to a bigger, more diverse populace, the patrician Darden used his contacts in business and politics to harvest the millions of dollars necessary to modernize the university. It was not an easy task. It's not any easier more than half a century later for the U.Va. board, Sullivan and McDonnell.
The GI Bill meant it was time for the University of Virginia to change.
The online revolution means it's time for the University of Virginia to change.
We'll have a bigger, more diverse populace with the online world.
Things will have to change, and the current academic leadership will not like to give up their cushy lives.
But change will come.
The University of Virginia can lead.
Or fall behind.