Helen E. Dragas, the head of the University of Virginia’s Board of Vistors who spent much of the past two weeks under fire for attempting to force the removal of President Teresa Sullivan, will keep her post, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced today.

In announcing several appointments to the board, McDonnell backed Dragas for another four-year term, saying that it was time for the university to move past the kerfuffle that was resolved earlier this week when Sullivan was given back her job. At the time of her reinstatement, Sullivan told her many supporters at U.Va. that she could continue to work with Dragas.

Still, McDonnell did not forget that the U.Va. board handled Sullivan’s temporary removal rather clumsily. “While there is no doubt that the board made several mistakes in its actions, which it has publicly admitted, this is not a time for recrimination,” he said in a press release.

Calling it a time, instead, “for reconciliation,” McDonnell also weighed in on a view that some observers, such as the Post’s Petula Dvorak, took in their analyses of Sullivan’s brief ouster.

“Just as I was disappointed to see the lack of transparency and communication surrounding the request for the resignation of the first female president of UVa, I am also concerned that the first female rector seemed to become the sole target of recent criticism,” McDonnell said.