In a rare act of academic defiance, more than 60 faculty members at the University of Toronto’s education department are calling for the firing of their dean.
At a March 25 faculty town hall meeting, an “overwhelming” majority of more than 60 faculty members at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) supported a formal resolution that called on the university to remove Julia O’Sullivan from her position amid what they call indiscriminate and unexplained layoffs of support staff.
The “Faculty Motion Expressing Concern over the OISE Reorganization Planning Process,” obtained by the Star, says the unwillingness of O’Sullivan to meet with faculty over the layoffs of “highly skilled personnel” and the “implications for faculty and student work” has left a crisis of confidence in the dean.
The resolution asks the university provost to replace O’Sullivan with interim dean Glen Jones, and that he “actively collaborate with faculty and staff and others affected to review the rationale and the decisions made in relation to OISE’s research and teaching mandate.”
It further asks that a “complete financial analysis of OISE” be conducted. (more...)
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