The Boston Globe: UMass Amherst faculty votes no confidence in system president, trustees
Faculty and librarians at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this afternoon cast a near-unanimous 214-1 no confidence vote in the board of trustees and system President Jack Wilson.
The faculty is outraged by a proposed overhaul of the school’s leadership that calls for their chancellor to retire in a year. They initially planned only to include the trustees in a “lack of confidence” vote, but added Wilson to the motion.
The trustees are under fire for not consulting the faculty on the leadership changes and for holding a secret meeting to discuss the proposal at a dinner at the UMass Club in Boston on May 3. Eleven voting members of the trustees – two more than the minimum number for a quorum – were present at the dinner, where they heard a presentation from Wilson and Chairman Stephen P. Tocco.
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