News From the North

Gail Dinter-Gottlieb, president of Acadia University, in Nova Scotia, has tendered her resignation, effective at end of February, Macleans reports. Gottlieb said she decided to step down more than a year before her term is over for personal and family reasons, the reporter, Erin Millar, writes. Read more.

Meanwhile, over at FACE Talk, David Robinson, the associate executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, offers some insight on the standoff at St. Thomas University, in Fredericton, New Brunswick.