All that education on the hill and they have to hire a mouth piece.
Cheers

Maybe he can communicate on how well the University is doing, and where he thinks it will be 10 years from now.

A little insight into finances, and enrolments, would also be nice.

He should communicate on what the University is expecting its business students to learn:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4232994
Note that one of the “authors” is a business professor.

The above IEEE violation is related to a UNBC student and a faculty member in Computer Science program in 2007. The same faculty member mentioned in the violation was the chair of Computer Science program in UNBC from 2003-2005, according to UNBC records.

Here is a 2012 story about Dr Liang Chen, a more controversial UNBC Computer Science program chair (2005-2009) in PG citizen who was disciplined by UNBC for violations.

http://m.princegeorgecitizen.com/article/20120706/PRINCEGEORGE0101/307069977/0/PRINCEGEORGE/faculty-association-not-a-trade-union-lrb-concludes&template=JQMArticle

Over the past 12 years, Computer Science in UNBC has been one of the most trouble areas in UNBC in terms of miss-management, allegations of serious violations of faculty agreement, labor laws, discrimination and harassment, FIPPA and (you name it) … and obviously decline in enrollment.

A GOOD manager respects the law and won’t cover up lawlessness.

Maybe univ can show us some UNBC records: I cannot get a conclusion “disciplined” nod “violation” from the PG citizen 2012 little piece.

I also do not see, from above two pieces, either IEEE or PG Citizen, that there were anything supports the allegations of the “miss-management,…,” in UNBC.

gass, I am not the comm. officer of UNBC and inquiries should be forwarded to people such as Michael Kellett in UNBC who draft these newsbits or who alert PG citizen and other media. Regarding Liang Chen’s story in UNBC you can read more at:
http://www.lrb.bc.ca/decisions/B139$2012.pdf

It is much easier to “prove something is false” than “prove s.th. is true” and the office of External Relations in UNBC headed by VP Robert van Adrichem (with an over-bloated budget of more than 1 Million $) can easily provide contradictions to stories if they are false. But when the story is true, you cannot spin the facts and instead you hope for it to disappear.

There is a need for change in management in UNBC (specially in Computer Sc. program). The lawyers of UNBC and UNBC faculty association have been spending 1000’s of hours (and wasted several 100,000’s of dollars of UNBC budget) on these cases in BC tribunals, commissions and court.

Lunar year of SNAKE is a year for transformations and the change of manager of comm. in UNBC should be part of a much bigger transformation year in UNBC where “ALL the processes” in UNBC faculty agreement, sections of Labour Relations code, BC Human rights code and FIPPA act are fully respected and implemented. No more cherry picking of the faculty agreement articles.

UNBC president, Dr George Iwama, needs to show courage and leadership and open a new chapter in the new year and to move BOTH “internal focus” in UNBC and “external bias” of media
(1) from playing LEGal games “against” faculty members and staff,
(2) and from hangover over over Jago-ne LEGacy in UNBC,

(1′) to playing ColLEGial team work “with” the faculty members and staff to tackle the growing enrollment and financial crisis in UNBC
(2′) and to think of his own LEGacy.
Ciao!

The LRB piece again does not show anything that you claimed to be true, regarding the professor nor the program.

No officer wants to waste her time to disprove an arbitrary allegation.

It also is true that, for the same reason, a president will never want an advise without solid reasons.

Plagiarism is Theft in academic systems. UNBC’s name should get rid of plagiarism and get good professors back.