The Board of Visitors Executive Compensation Committee convened Monday morning in the President’s Conference Room in Madison Hall. The Committee discussed “elections, appointments, performance, promotions and compensation of specific officers and employees” in closed session, according to the meeting agenda.
The Committee — composed of eight Board members — is tasked with routinely reviewing compensation policy at the University to ensure it supports the University’s goals to “attract and retain key personnel on fair, transparent and competitive terms.”
On Monday, three members were present in Madison Hall, three participated via Zoom and two members were absent. Some members of the Committee include Rector Carlos Brown who serves as an ex-officio member, Vice Rector Victoria Harker and Board Member David Webb who serves as the Committee’s chair. Webb was present Monday, and Brown and Harker were present via Zoom according to Monday’s meeting minutes. The minutes also list Brown as being absent Monday. Other University leaders, including University President Scott Beardsley and Jennifer Wagner Davis, executive vice president and chief operating officer, were present Monday.
The Committee meets twice per year, and as part of its work, it reviews the president’s performance to inform compensation for the following fiscal year. Additionally, the Committee advises the University president on compensation structure and payments for various University leaders such as the executive and senior vice presidents and the chief operating officer of U.Va. Health. To accomplish this, the Committee factors into account peer comparability analyses, job responsibilities and experience of the employee.
Following opening remarks by Webb, the Committee entered into a closed session at 8:31 a.m. to discuss the performance and pay of select University employees. At 10:04 a.m., the Committee entered open session to certify that all matters discussed in closed session abide by the relevant exemption of Section 2.2-3711 A (1) of the Code of Virginia.
The section specifies when public bodies, including the Board, may hold closed meetings, which includes discussions on the promotions, performance and salaries of employees of public bodies. Among the reasons listed in the law, bodies may meet under closed conditions to consider the topics discussed by the Committee Monday.
“Public bodies may hold closed meetings …. [for the purposes of] appointment, promotion, performance, demotion, salaries, disciplining or resignation of specific public officers, appointees or employees of any public body; and evaluation of performance of departments or schools of public institutions of higher education where such evaluation will necessarily involve discussion of the performance of specific individuals,” the code reads.
After the minute-long open session, Webb adjourned the meeting at 10:05 a.m.
The Committee last convened Aug. 29 by electronic communication. Following just under an hour of closed session discussions during that meeting, the Committee approved a motion to certify that the session’s contents were all lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements, and Webb adjourned the meeting shortly thereafter. A similar procedure occurred at the Committee’s June 2, 2025 meeting.
For reporting on University leaders’ publicly available compensation amounts, visit The Cavalier Daily’s website.
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