Following my request, the faculty in the College of Education voted last Friday on whether they had confidence in the leadership of Chancellor Woodson, Provost Arden, and Dean Sztajn due to their mismanagement of the Poe Hall situation. According to the Technician, this is the first time a no-confidence vote for a Chancellor has ever passed.
Here are the results:
The results are grim: at best, 1/3 of the faculty expressed confidence in our leadership, with only 17% expressing confidence in the Provost.
The large number of abstentions is interesting. In promotion and tenure votes and contract hire votes in the College of Education, abstentions are very rare. I think some faculty faced a dilemma: due to how badly our college and university leadership have handled the issue thus far, they just could not bring themselves to vote “confidence”. Yet folks here are very loyal to NC State, and they could not possibly vote “no confidence” because they did not want to embarrass the university. So the abstention option offered them a way out.
Here is the report from the Coordinating Committee.
News roundup:
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article285378417.html
