Academic leadership should not be an exercise simply in risk mitigation, avoiding political recrimination, and financial self-preservation. We should not need to wait for painfully overwhelming evidence before we act, especially when we have leading experts under our own roof.
It is hard to put into words how having academic leaders concerned principally with reputation and stability has eroded trust, collegiality, and well-being among students, faculty, and staff. Many feel helpless, forgotten, unsafe, and resent the choice btw health and education.
At #McGill200 this troubling community sentiment corresponds with our principal prematurely resigning, reinforcing a perceived lack of leadership during this ongoing crisis. Faculty are petitioning for unionization; a clear and unprecedented response to broken faculty relations.
The pandemic is not over, and our #McGill200 community needs more support. Using our surplus to get students better masks and waiting for students to be sufficiently vaccinated would help. We need timely decisions that make a difference, not reassurances that nothing has changed.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
