<p>$840,000 of severance, including about $45K or so for his wife, who also worked for UVa for a little more than a year. The only plausible explanation for this waste of money would be if they both had a 4 year binding contract, and the U. had no choice except to buy them out.<br>
Even then, it is an absurd amount of money to get someone to resign.</p>
<p>There are some legislators working on reforms of UVa’s governance.</p>