It’s been a tumultuous year in the Mount Allison president’s office. In March, Board of Regents chair George Cooper announced that Dr. Jean Paul Boudreau would not be staying on for a second term. Boudreau took on the top job in 2018 and saw the school through the pandemic.
Then at the end of June, then-Provost Jeff Hennessey took on the position of interim president for a few weeks before announcing that he was heading back to Acadia University in Wolfville, where he was taking over as newly-appointed president. The board then hired a search consultant to help them find another interim appointee while a search committee took on the task of hiring a permanent president.
Then at the end of August, Mount Allison announced it had found someone — Dr. Robert MacKinnon, with a long academic career at UNB Saint John serving as a geography professor, dean of arts, and vice president, agreed to take on the job.
MacKinnon started his one year term on September 1, and recently dropped by CHMA studios for a chat.
