{"id":143888,"date":"2023-03-09T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=143888"},"modified":"2023-03-09T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:14:15","slug":"pandemic-president-jean-paul-boudreau-leaving-this-mt-a-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/pandemic-president-jean-paul-boudreau-leaving-this-mt-a-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pandemic president\u2019 Jean-Paul Boudreau leaving Mt A this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Jean-Paul Boudreau will not be renewing his term as president of Mount Allison University.<\/p>\n

Board of Regents Chair George Cooper announced the news in an email to Mount Allison staff, students and faculty on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Cooper thanked Boudreau for, \u201chis leadership over the past five years, and for his work advancing the university\u2019s academic mission and strengthening our impact in the community, across the province, and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper called Boudreau the university\u2019s \u201cPandemic President\u201d, and credited him with, \u201cagility, compassion, and a focus on bringing the community together at a time when we had to be apart. As we moved forward, he continued to focus on creating a strong community, with our students at the heart of this approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis service to the life and well-being of the university and to our many collaborating partners is a great point of pride. In everything that he did in the role, he embodied an infectious spirit that put people first and always stood on values of care and compassion for our community,\u201d Cooper continued.<\/p>\n

Boudreau followed up with his own email to students, staff, and faculty in which he confirmed his departure, saying \u201can important facet of leadership is picking the right time to move on.\u201d Boudreau called his term as president, which started in 2018, a \u201cdream opportunity,\u201d and said he believed he was \u201cleaving the place \u2018better than I found it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Mount Allison Students\u2019 Union (MASU) President Rohin Minocha-McKenney agrees with that statement. He recalls an Argosy humour writer dubbing Boudreau the \u201cmost lit prez\u201d in the school\u2019s history<\/a>, \u201cbased on campus presence, appearance and overall good vibes.\u201d<\/p>\n

All joking aside, Minocha-McKenney thinks Boudreau\u2019s presence on campus worked for students.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was always there,\u201d says the MASU president. \u201cHe was at orientation events, Winter Carnival, handing out hot chocolate, hot cider and treats during finals from the Flame cart. He was always willing to talk with students to hear our concerns and to really put action to them. So he was a very popular president and did a lot of great things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boudreau will finish his term on June 30, giving the board of regents just under four months lead time to begin a search for a new president. That process, \u201cwill include opportunities for input from a wide range of stakeholders from the Mount Allison community,\u201d wrote Cooper.<\/p>\n

Minocha-McKenney will have moved on by the time the search is started, but he says MASU will be involved, and he expects the process to take in the range of 12-18 months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere needs to be extensive consultation with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and broader stakeholders,\u201d says Minocha-McKenney. \u201cAnd then the search in itself will take quite a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hear what Rohin Minocha-McKenney has to say about Boudreau leaving:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Jean-Paul Boudreau will not be renewing his term as president of Mount Allison University. Board of Regents Chair George Cooper announced the news in an email to Mount Allison staff, students and faculty on Wednesday. Cooper thanked Boudreau for, \u201chis leadership over the past five years, and for his work advancing the university\u2019s academic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":143894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221],"tags":[24087,10845,7078,1221,16258],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143888"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143905,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143888\/revisions\/143905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143888"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=143888"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=143888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}