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VCU Health’s costly exit from an ill-fated downtown development project continued this week, with the University scrutinizing the results of a public opinion poll conducted by one of its own schools.
The university’s public affairs school published poll results criticizing university leaders, who then insulted the poll’s methodology. The school fired back. An unusual war of words has broken out between Virginia Commonwealth University and one of its own schools over the validity of public opinion polling that criticized the university for a costly failed project.
“The university is dedicated to supporting academic freedom, even in instances in which it disagrees with content,” VCU said in a statement released minutes after the poll’s results were disseminated Monday.
Earlier this year, it was reported that VCU spent $73 million to back out of a development deal for the building of a new downtown facility with the City of…
The survey included responses from 1,000 Virginians with more than 800 registered voters and more than 700 likely voters, if Youngkin were to run.