{"id":16958,"date":"2025-12-20T02:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/uva-board-defies-spanberger-in-naming-new-president\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T02:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:20:23","slug":"uva-board-defies-spanberger-in-naming-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/uva-board-defies-spanberger-in-naming-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"UVa board defies Spanberger in naming new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Virginia&#8217;s (UVa) board on Friday announced that Darden School of Business dean Scott C. Beardsley will serve as the university&#8217;s next president, defying Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger&#8217;s request to choose a new president after she is sworn in. The board unanimously voted for Beardsley&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/education\/5657914-uva-board-chooses-beardsley-president\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Virginia&#8217;s (UVa) board on Friday announced that Darden School of Business dean Scott C. Beardsley will serve as the university&#8217;s next president, defying Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger&#8217;s request to choose a new president after she is sworn in. The board unanimously voted for Beardsley&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}