UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS
The struggle for gender equity in university leadership

"Any unfinished presidential mandate is a failure in board governance - they either hired the wrong person."

Those are the words of David Turpin, former president of the universities of Victoria and Alberta. My own work, as a researcher who focuses on this issue, supports his assertion. Yet if you examine the numbers, the problem appears to disproportionately affect women in this key leadership role.

Over the past decade, 18 Canadian university presidents have failed to complete their first term. This means that close to 20 per cent of universities had a president who stayed less than five years.

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