Old Dominion University is contending with two major crises this week: a fatal classroom shooting in which an instructor and two others were wounded—authorities identified the suspect as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former National Guard member with a prior terrorism conviction—and, separately, faculty have mounted no‑confidence votes over a plan to compress online courses into eight‑week modules. The shooting, which federal authorities are investigating as a possible act of terrorism, left the ROTC instructor dead and prompted an FBI probe; students who subdued the shooter were credited with preventing further loss of life. Campus leaders have since focused on victim support and coordinating with federal investigators. At the same time, Old Dominion’s Faculty Senate passed a no‑confidence motion over the university’s rapid shift to an eight‑week online term model, which faculty say violates shared governance and threatens academic quality. The Board of Visitors defended the administrative timeline as necessary for enrollment strategy, setting up a governance standoff that will shape faculty‑administration relations across the campus.