Responding to a handful of no-confidence votes in the past week, the chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, Steven J. Rosenstone, said in a statement on Tuesday he was “disappointed,” the Star Tribune reports.
At issue is the system’s reorganization project, entitled Charting the Future. Prompted by the initially undisclosed hiring of a prominent consulting firm, faculty members have said they were suspicious of the effort. The two unions representing faculty members in the system have cut ties with Charting the Future, and faculty members at five of the system’s seven four-year universities have protested Mr. Rosenstone’s handling of the program.
The full statement to the Star Tribune reads: “We continue to be disappointed that the faculty union leaders are employing this tactic to further their goal of stopping the critical conversations that make up Charting the Future.”
A simmering protest against the chancellor of Minnesota’s 31 state universities and colleges continued to build steam this week, with two more faculty groups voting no confidence in Steven Rosenstone. Late Monday, no-confidence votes were approved by the faculty senate at Bemidji State University and the executive committee of the Southwest Minnesota State University Faculty Association in Marshall.
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