‘No Confidence’ Vote for Head of N.Y.U.
Source: NYT
The faculty of New York University’s largest college this week approved a vote of “no confidence” in John Sexton, the university’s president, handing him an embarrassing setback at a time when he is aggressively selling the university’s expansion plans at home and abroad.
The vote, 298 to 224 (with 47 abstaining), took place via electronic balloting from Monday through Friday. Full-time tenured and tenure-track professors were asked to respond to the statement: “The faculty of Arts and Science has no confidence in John Sexton’s leadership.” Voter participation was 83 percent.
A statement by that college’s Faculty Senators Council Caucus said, “In the coming days and weeks, we anticipate that the N.Y.U. community, along with the F.A.S. Senators, will be discussing the ramifications of this vote, the circumstances that gave rise to it, and the next appropriate course of decisions and actions.”
Dr. Sexton issued his own statement, which concluded: “In the university setting, we believe in debate and criticism; it helps us improve. That will be particularly important in the months and years ahead, because we are at a moment that compels meaningful change in higher education. It is also the case that faculty must be at the center of the academic endeavor and involved in the decision-making. We have taken some important steps in that direction and, particularly with this vote in mind, that effort will continue. I look forward to working with the faculty to maintain N.Y.U.’s academic trajectory and prepare for the challenges ahead.”
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