EDMONTON – The chairman of the University of Alberta’s board of governors says he is stepping down at the end of August.
Doug Goss says he has fulfilled one of his job’s most important roles by finding David Turpin, who recently became the university’s new president.
Goss made headlines during the spring provincial election campaign when he and four other business leaders held a news conference urging voters not to cast their ballots for the NDP.
They argued the NDP’s plan to raise corporate taxes, which Premier Rachel Notley implemented not long after her party took power and ended a 43-year Tory dynasty, would result in people losing jobs.
After the NDP swept to power, the university’s Association of Academic Staff asked Notley to end Goss’s appointment with the board of governors.
But Goss says he always had “tremendous support” from the university.
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