Inside Higher Ed: No Confidence Votes at Cal State
Spurred by a coalition of frustrated professors, 73 percent of faculty members at Sonoma State University who responded to a referendum have registered no confidence votes in their president, Ruben Armiñana.
Part-time lecturers and full-time professors were asked to evaluate the president’s leadership, and nearly 7 in 10 eligible voters cast ballots. The vote comes just weeks after faculty members at another Cal State institution, Sacramento State University, sent a similar message about the performance of their president, Alexander Gonzalez. Roughly 77 percent of voters (about two-thirds of eligible faculty took part) there disapproved of Gonzalez.