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The university announced Wednesday that Ryan will officially step down from office on July 11 and, after a sabbatical, will return to Grounds to teach at the schools of law and education

As previously announced, UVa Chief Operating Officer J.J. Davis will taking over as acting president upon Ryan's resignation and until an interim president can be named.

Ryan's agreement to return to UVa聽after a resignation clouded by scandal is not dissimilar from the fates of two past university presidents: Teresa Sullivan and Robert O'Neil.

The university has framed both Sullivan and O'Neil's departures as "retirements," but both continued working.

Sullivan and O'Neil were offered other jobs connected to the university after leaving the presidential office at Madison Hall. Sullivan, who first resigned in 2012 before she was reinstated later that year and later stepped down again in 2018, took a job teaching sociology at the university. O'Neil, who stepped down in 1990, was named director of the Thomas Jefferson聽Center for the Protection of Free Expression, which he also founded.

Both Sullivan and O'Neil, however, left office聽after disagreements their respective boards of visitors; Sullivan was criticized for her lack of fundraising prowess, O'Neil for his lack of Virginia bona fides. Ryan, however, is departing under pressure from the U.S. Department of Justice.

After the White House and the Board of Visitors instructed Ryan to eliminate the diversity, equity and inclusion programs and policies he instituted at UVa, the DOJ claims he failed to do so. Moreover, the agency said Ryan misrepresented his progress dismantling DEI, rebranding instead of removing programs and positions.

"I cannot make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government in order to save my own job," Ryan said in a letter to the university community, noting the DOJ's claims were "distinctly tied to me personally."

Ryan tendered his resignation last Thursday. Rector Robert Hardie, whose term ended Monday, accepted the聽resignation the following Friday.

A special meeting of the Board of Visitors, under its new rector, Rachel Sheridan, was scheduled to take place Wednesday but was abruptly canceled.聽

The meeting had been called to discuss a "resignation faculty matter," but was canceled "as it was no longer needed," according to university officials.

Those officials provided no further details.

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The outgoing faculty representative on the Board of Visitors, Michael Kennedy, said he never witnessed anything like Wednesday's confusion during his tenure.聽

"Nothing like this happened during my year as faculty representative to the Board," Kennedy told The Daily Progress regarding Wednesday's sudden cancelation. "But these are unprecedented times."