'Making the University Run 24/7': The Work of UVA's Chief Operating Officer

The University of Virginia has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people. The Grounds span 3,300 acres that must be maintained. And there’s even more to tend to by the office of Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis, the University’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. “We provide and care for dining, facilities [management,] safety, security, paychecks … We really are the operational support to the teaching, research and patient care mission” of the University, Davis said in the fifth episode of President Jim Ryan’s podcast, “Inside UVA.”