Globe and Mail: Trio of resignations shock university system
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The top positions at three Canadian universities have opened up in the past three months after their presidents abruptly resigned, two of them leaving shortly after they were hired.
David Atkinson left Carleton University and Robert Hawkins stepped down as head of the University of Regina, only 15 months into their respective six- and five-year terms. Both said they did not see eye to eye with their boards of governors. And Roch Denis, rector at the University of Quebec at Montreal, resigned after a $40-million overrun in construction costs for a new science complex.
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