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Wanted: A visionary leader and proven agent of change who is consultative, collaborative and inspiring, known for his or her political acumen and diplomatic skills, with exceptional analytical abilities and a deep knowledge of the academic environment of Ontario.
If that sounds like you, perhaps you should submit your resumé to the University of Ottawa.
A 14-member selection committee has been gearing up for the search since last fall, consulting with the university community and drawing up selection criteria. An advertisement soliciting applications appeared in the Citizen Saturday.
To allow a smooth transition, a new president is expected to be named in January 2016, several months before Rock’s term ends.
Rock, a former Liberal cabinet minister and Canadian ambassador to the United Nations who will turn 68 in August, assumed the $395,000-a-year president’s job on June 3, 2008. His five-year term was subsequently extended to June 2016.
Under Rock, the 43,000-student university has expanded both in size and reputation. It now offers more than 450 programs in 10 faculties, including the largest law school in Canada.
It has put a particular emphasis on research — it now is considered one of Canada’s top-10 research universities — as well as international collaboration. Largely as a result, it is now regularly ranked as one of the top 200 universities in the world.
Not all has been smooth sailing, however. In recent years, the university has been wracked by allegations of sexual violence and a pervasive “rape culture” on campus, triggered in part by charges laid against two members of its hockey team during a series of games in Thunder Bay in February 2014.
Rock responded by suspending the university’s Gee-Gees men’s hockey team in 2014-15, a suspension since extended to the 2015-16 season. The university is now facing a $6-million class action suit from 22 former team members who allege the suspension unjustly tarnished their reputations.
The university rebranded itself during Rock’s tenure, abandoning its former moniker as “Canada’s university” in favour of a new its new brand positioning: “Defy the conventional.”
The university, which describes itself as the largest bilingual university in the world, is midway through its strategic plan, Destination 2020, which sets four strategic goals: enhancing the student experience, expanding research excellence, attracting more francophone students and welcoming more international students and faculty.
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If that sounds like you, perhaps you should submit your resumé to the University of Ottawa.
The university has begun the active search for a successor to Allan Rock, its president and vice-chancellor since 2008, whose term ends June 30, 2016.
A 14-member selection committee has been gearing up for the search since last fall, consulting with the university community and drawing up selection criteria. An advertisement soliciting applications appeared in the Citizen Saturday.
To allow a smooth transition, a new president is expected to be named in January 2016, several months before Rock’s term ends.
Rock, a former Liberal cabinet minister and Canadian ambassador to the United Nations who will turn 68 in August, assumed the $395,000-a-year president’s job on June 3, 2008. His five-year term was subsequently extended to June 2016.
Under Rock, the 43,000-student university has expanded both in size and reputation. It now offers more than 450 programs in 10 faculties, including the largest law school in Canada.
It has put a particular emphasis on research — it now is considered one of Canada’s top-10 research universities — as well as international collaboration. Largely as a result, it is now regularly ranked as one of the top 200 universities in the world.
Not all has been smooth sailing, however. In recent years, the university has been wracked by allegations of sexual violence and a pervasive “rape culture” on campus, triggered in part by charges laid against two members of its hockey team during a series of games in Thunder Bay in February 2014.
Rock responded by suspending the university’s Gee-Gees men’s hockey team in 2014-15, a suspension since extended to the 2015-16 season. The university is now facing a $6-million class action suit from 22 former team members who allege the suspension unjustly tarnished their reputations.
The university rebranded itself during Rock’s tenure, abandoning its former moniker as “Canada’s university” in favour of a new its new brand positioning: “Defy the conventional.”
The university, which describes itself as the largest bilingual university in the world, is midway through its strategic plan, Destination 2020, which sets four strategic goals: enhancing the student experience, expanding research excellence, attracting more francophone students and welcoming more international students and faculty.
dbutler@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/ButlerDon
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