No one said our finances were at a Laurentian level. What we actually said, and still say, is that many of the same warning signs apply under this @uofg administration as highlighted in the Auditor Geberal's report on Laurentian.
“My job as president is to make sure that we are sustainable this year, next year, in five years and in 20 years,” Dr. Yates said.
We also had low international enrollment when she became Provost in 2015. Every university has an enrollment corridor and tuition freezes.
So, either this administration failed to make us sustainable when we had surplus (again, departments were being directed to spend this down by the BoG and admin), or they are making drastic and damaging moves as a reaction to the impact of a unique event, namely the pandemic.
And it's less about the budget and much more about the destruction of collegial governance, morale, and relationships. It's about the gaslighting and inability to ever admit any mistake. It's the lack of transparency and real consultation. It's the broken trust.
Going to say it again. An audit of @uofg needs to investigate how we blew through the corridor on new enrollments last year. Seems likely that *someone* panicked about not meeting targets (especially internationsl) and gave the instruction to send out (way too many) more offers.
The registrar was let go (and now the AVPA, who was appointed without a search, is doing that job as well), but I have no doubt it came from the top. President? Provost? Board of Governors? *Someone* is responsible for the massive increase in workload we're dealing with now.
Uh oh. Info like this being shared by a long COVID patient harms long COVID patients. Please only listen to their self-appointed spokesperson about how "normal, healthy people" aren't at risk and reinfections don't increase the chances of suffering from long COVID.
For real, though, *please* listen to people with long COVID, the immunocompromised, and others with relevant lived experience. Ignore self-promoting minimizers.
Here's the study. I'm sure the minimizers are working on some arguments for why this is "obviously exaggerated" or whatever.
The glee on display over this schoolyard bullying and disregard for the integrity of scientific discourse (a Twitter troll move in a peer-reviewed journal? Seriously?) is incredibly telling.
There is absolutely no doubt what this was, by the way. It's now on @ImmunolCellBiol editors and @ASImmunology to maintain the professional standards of their journal, unless the endorse this kind of thing.