University of Minnesota faculty votes ‘no confidence’ in interim president

The University of Minnesota Faculty Senate on Wednesday voted to express "no confidence" in interim President Jeff Ettinger over his decision to pause the hiring of a new director for the U's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a conflict Ettinger said he hoped to avoid in his final days leading the U. "Is this the only arrow in the quiver?" Ettinger asked faculty senators in their meeting. "Is a vote of no confidence the only way to express the importance of academic freedom to your opinions in this topic?"...