Throw alarm clock out the window

Teresa Sullivan is back as president at University of Virginia. Will any lessons be learned from this?
Did the people rise up, or are they ignoring the wakeup call that all higher education will face in the next few years?
The structural problem our universities face is this: confronted with the need for sweeping, rapid changes, administrators and boards have two options — and they are both bad. One option is to press ahead to make rapid changes. This risks — and in many (perhaps most) cases will cause — enormous upheavals; star professors will flounce off. Alumni will be offended. Waves of horrible publicity will besmirch the university’s name.
Option two: you can try to make your reforms consensual — watering down, delaying, carefully respecting existing interests and pecking orders. If you do this, you will have a peaceful, happy campus . . . until the money runs out.
The alarm clock went through the open window at the Rotunda.
But the sun's still going to rise.