RISD Faculty Planning No Confidence Vote Against President
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
GoLocalProv has learned that the faculty at RISD planning to hold a no confidence vote today against President John Maeda.
Just four years ago the faculty held a no confidence vote against Maeda’s predecessor, Roger Mandle. At the time, members of the faculty, which is unionized, cited the “disproportionate growth in the upper-level administration of the college has bred resentment and suspicion among the other constituencies at RISD,” according to a statement quoted in the Brown Daily Herald.
Disagreement over a strategic plan for the university is reportedly one of the reasons behind the no confidence vote this time around.
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Maeda, the former associate director of research at the MIT Media Lab, has served as president since 2008.
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