How UBC lost a president – The Globe and Mail
Dr. Arvind Gupta seemed the right man for the times, an innovator hired to connect academics with industry and students with jobs. But behind the scenes, the president was fighting political battles on multiple fronts. As Simona Chiose and Frances Bula report, it’s been a month since his sudden resignation and UBC is still grappling with the fallout
An unusual group had assembled at the Point Grey campus residence of Arvind Gupta, the president of the University of British Columbia. The gathering was made up of professors and associate deans from the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses, from science to arts and humanities. For a few hours last March, they had the president’s undivided attention.
