Английская Википедия:Alaa Abd-El-Aziz

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Шаблон:Short description Alaa Abd-El-Aziz is a Canadian academic and former president of the University of Prince Edward Island.[1]

Early life

Abd-El-Aziz completed his bachelor's and master's at the Ain Shams University in 1985 and 1989 respectively.[2] He completed a PhD at the University of Saskatchewan in 1989.[2]

Career

Abd-El-Aziz joined the University of Toronto as a lecturer in 1989.[2] In 1990, he joined the University of Winnipeg as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 1997 and worked there till 2006.[2]

From 1991 to 2008, Abd-El-Aziz was an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba.[2] He was also an adjunct at the Université de Sherbrooke and the University of Winnipeg.[2]

Abd-El-Aziz was the former Provost of University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus).Шаблон:Citation needed From 2006 to 2011, he was the professor of chemistry at University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus).[2]

University of Prince Edward Island

Alaa Abd-El-Aziz assumed the presidency of University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) in July 2011 after being selected in November 2010.[3]

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In 2013, university employees filed sexual harassment complaints against Abd-El-Aziz before the P.E.I. Human Rights Commission. According to Tom Cullen, then-chairman of UPEI's board of governors, it involved allegations of "inappropriate comments between colleagues".[4] Later the same year, UPEI reached a settlement with the two complainants,[5] with non-disclosure agreements signed by all parties involved.[6]

Abd-El-Aziz's contract was renewed in 2015,[7] 2018 and 2021.[8] Atlantic Business Magazine declared him innovator of the year in 2020.[9]

Abd-El-Aziz agreed to stay at the university until 2025 but resigned in December 2021 citing health reasons following a report by CBC News alleging that numerous non-disclosure agreements at UPEI had created "a culture of silence and fear" on campus and a toxic workplace[10][11] Following Alaa Abd-El-Aziz's resignation, Greg Keefe was named Interim President and Vice-Chancellor on 13 December 2021.[12]

Appointed by UPEI a few days after the resignation,[13] law firm Rubin Thomlinson found 29 non-disclosure agreements were signed at UPEI in the decade Abd-El-Aziz was in charge.[6][8]

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