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Originally Posted by Faust
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Scott became president on Jan. 4, 2022. Soon after arriving in Alberta from his previous job in Australia, he found himself in the middle of a dispute over the university's direction.
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Nicolaides fired board chair Nancy Laird and appointed Nelson, a former Progressive Conservative leadership candidate, to take her place. He rescinded the appointment of four board members, replacing them with seven new appointees. He said the university's failure to submit a plan could put its operating funding at risk.
Scott put out a defiant video in August stating that the university's reversal of the virtual plan would set it back forty years. Nicolaides said failing to submit a plan would put the university's monthly operating funding at risk.
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Scott's firing by the board comes nearly three weeks after his wife died of cancer. She had just been diagnosed in early December.
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Ooof.
Worth looking back at his hiring press release...sounds like we're losing a good one and he'll go on to do great things elsewhere.
https://news.athabascau.ca/faculty/10th-president/