How to Fire Your President: Voting ‘No Confidence’ With Confidence

by E Wayne Ross on June 12, 2009

The Chronicle: How to Fire Your President: Voting ‘No Confidence’ With Confidence

College faculties often use votes of “no confidence” to try to push out the leader of their institutions. Many do so, however, without giving much thought to what such a vote actually means, whether they are using it appropriately, or how it will affect their institution—and their own future.