Daily News | Temple faculty union to discuss taking no confidence vote in President Wingard and two top administrators
The faculty union at Temple University said it will hold a meeting Friday to discuss whether to take a vote of no confidence against President Jason Wingard and two of his top administrators.As tensions mount over campus safety and a monthlong graduate student strike, Temple University’s faculty union plans to discuss on Friday whether to take a vote of no confidence in President Jason Wingard and two of his top administrators.
In addition to Wingard, faculty also will consider the no confidence vote in Gregory N. Mandel, who became provost in 2021, and Ken Kaiser, senior vice president and chief operating officer, Doshna said.While concern about the university’s handling of the graduate student strike has brought the unrest to a head, concerns also are mounting about campus safety in the wake of Temple police officer Christopher Fitzgerald’s Feb.
“The fact that so many faculty members feel the need to get together to discuss this topic, whatever we end up deciding should be a warning sign to the board and to our administrative leaders,” said Steve Newman, former faculty union president. “My hope is that the relationship between faculty and our current administration can be repaired.”
and called on the university to be more transparent about crimes and develop a better plan to keep students safe.“We need the board of trustees to fix what’s broken,” Doshna said. Faculty also see the university’s public safety response as lacking, Doshna said. After student Samuel Collington’s shooting death near campus in 2021, Wingard pledged to grow the police force by 50%, but there are fewer officers now than in the weeks after Collington’s murder.
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