Alberta is willing to help Athabasca University relocate 500 employees but the school has not stepped up in asking for any assistance
Alberta’s Advanced Education minister says he is willing to help Athabasca University with whatever it wants – including money – to relocate 500 employees to the small town that’s the school’s namesake, but says the school has not stepped up.
Nicolaides’ comments come as the standoff between him and university president Peter Scott becomes increasingly confrontational, set against a looming deadline that holds the fate of the school in the balance. Nicolaides agrees, saying he is not reinventing the school’s mandate but simply trying to reverse the trend away from it.On Friday, he publicly called the plan backward and self-defeating while making it harder to recruit top talent and needlessly siphoning off critical funds, resources, and time better devoted to learning.
Asked about this potentially self-defeating rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul aspect of the relocation scheme, Nicolaides said those are the kinds of issues that need to be hashed out – but said it can’t be done until the school antes up the details. Scott said the government stipulates 65 per cent of staff – along with executive members – must live in Athabasca by 2025. That means 500 people must move.
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