Category: Administration

One of the most extraordinary moments last week in the run-up to the Senate non-confidence vote on Western President Amit Chakma’s tenure was the publication of an opinion piece in the Western News – the official organ of the university, no less – entitled, “Nothing personal, but it’s time to go”.  Written by two professors in the English Department, it is a rhetorically excellent savaging of President Chakma.  Read it, it’s worth it. Although well-written, I was particularly struck by

Last Friday, Western’s President Amit Chakma barely scraped through a non-confidence vote following his decision to take pay in lieu of administrative leave when he started his second term, a move which pushed his pay to $967,000 last year.  The story has resonated widely across academia, so it seems worth a couple days of blogs to unpack some of the issues With specific respect to pay, the real issue seems to be what to do with this “leave year” that