For the first time ever, Ontario universities disclose their presidents’ contracts
Give credit to the Hamilton Spectator. And its investigations editor, Steve Buist. The newspaper has sparked a paradigm shift in university transparency — at several southern Ontario schools, anyway.
Last week, McMaster University finally acquiesced to a freedom-of-information request filed nearly two years ago by the Spectator, and released Mac President Peter George’s contract. The Spec published the details of George’s employment agreement with his university—and then the floodgates flew open. It turns out that the Spec had requested the contracts of quite a few other university presidents—and after Mac decided to go public (having been ordered to do so by the provincial information commission, note), so did those other universities.
Today, the paper published the fruits of its labour on its website, making available the contracts of: