Coates to leave U of S for new private B.C. university
Dean of Arts & Science was key player as Acting Provost & Vice-President Academic
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Ken Coates, who recently returned to his post as Dean of Arts and Science after serving a year as Acting Provost and Vice-President Academic, has announced he will leave the University of Saskatchewan at the end of this academic year in order to return to British Columbia and a position with a new private university.
The move, according to a University news release, will allow Coates and his family the chance for closer contact with other relatives. In addition to three grown children from a previous marriage, Coates and his spouse Carin Holroyd, Director of Student Support Services in the Student and Enrolment Services Division, have two adopted children - Hana, a native of Vietnam, and Marlon who was a Brazilian orphan. Holroyd was diagnosed with cancer in late 2002, just as Coates began his term filling in for Provost Michael Atkinson who was on administrative leave.
"I will leave the University of Saskatchewan with considerable sadness," Coates said in the release. "While family considerations make it important to return to British Columbia, I am very fond of the University and its faculty and staff, and I share President (Peter) MacKinnon's enthusiasm about the future of this important institution."
For his part, MacKinnon said Coates has played a key role in Aboriginal programming and internationalization since arriving in Saskatoon in 2001, and in the past year, has focused on Integrated Planning. He has also been "a tireless advocate for Arts and Science," said the president. "We wish him and his family well."
After earning a PhD from the University of British Columbia, Coates took on teaching opportunities across Canada and as far away as New Zealand. Prior to joining the U of S, he served as founding Vice-President Academic at the University of Northern British Columbia.
Once he leaves the U of S in June 2004, Coates will take on the position of Dean of Academics at Sea to Sky University, located in Squamish, B.C., halfway between Vancouver and Whistler. SSU is Canada's first private, secular, not-for-profit liberal arts and science university, and is a registered charitable institution.
The search for a new dean of Arts and Science will begin this fall.
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