Jacqueline Chanda, president of the Kansas City Art Institute, got a vote of ‘no confidence’ from the faculty yesterday
We’ve been hearing little rumblings lately about discontent among the faculty over at the Kansas City Art Institute. In the Graphic Design department, for example, at least two of the four faculty members – assistant professor Marty Maxwell Lane and Tyler Galloway, chair of the department – are leaving after this semester. That’s hardly a smoking gun, of course, but the Star confirmed yesterday that all is not well at the school in a report noting that the faculty has sent to the KCAI board of trustees a vote of “no confidence” regarding president Jacqueline Chanda.
Chanda joined KCAI as president in 2011. The Star notes that school officials declined to discuss details of the vote, taken last month by 58 full-time faculty members.
In a statement, Chanda said, “I am working with the board and with the faculty to resolve the issues that have been raised…All of this is reflective of a process in higher education by which faculty have a way to communicate with trustees, and while no one wants such a situation to arise, it is by no means unusual in academe. For me to respond further at this time would be inappropriate.”
