7/25/2019 Statement From UBC Re: Steven Galloway

1/1

Statement from UBC re: Steven Galloway

Steven Galloway was a tenured Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Program

in the Faculty of Arts at the UBC Vancouver campus !e held that ran" commencing

#uly $% &'$( Prior to that he was an Assistant Professor% )ecturer and Sessional)ecturer from Septem*er &''$ !e was also the Chair of the Creative Writing

Program from &'$(

+n ,ovem*er &'$- UBC received serious allegations of misconduct against Steven

Galloway Given the serious nature of the allegations% he was placed on suspensionwith pay e.ective ,ovem*er $/% &'$- until the investigation was completed

Additional complaints were received in ,ovem*er and 0ecem*er &'$- Given the

comple1ity and serious nature of multiple allegations and the need for a fair%thorough and timely process% on ,ovem*er &'% &'$- the 0ean of Arts% 0r Gage

Averill% engaged the !onoura*le 2ary 3llen Boyd% a former 4ustice of the BC

Supreme Court% to conduct an investigation She provided her report to the 0ean

on April &-% &'$/

0ean Averill reviewed the report with Steven Galloway% and Steven Galloway did not

dispute any of the critical 5ndings +n addition to the allegations investigated *y the

!onoura*le 2ary 3llen Boyd% 0ean Averill also too" into consideration other

allegations After ta"ing into consideration all of the relevant information% 0eanAverill made his recommendation to the President on 2ay ('% &'$/

As re6uired *y Article $''( of the Collective Agreement with the UBC Faculty

Association% the President met with Steven Galloway on #une (% &'$/ to canvass a

num*er of matters As a result of the 5ndings in this meeting% coupled with the0ean7s recommendation and the investigative 5ndings of the !onoura*le 2ary 3llen

Boyd% the President concluded that there was a record of misconduct that resultedin an irrepara*le *reach of the trust placed in faculty mem*ers *y the university% its

students and the general pu*lic She made her recommendation to the Board ofGovernors on #une &$% &'$/ Steven Galloway is no longer employed at the

University of British Colum*ia

8hese "inds of cases are always very di9cult for everyone involved 8he university

ac"nowledges the community7s need for information and assurance that itsprocesses have *een applied fairly At the same time% the university must *alance

the need to respect the personal privacy of *oth complainants and respondents and

to provide them with a safe space in which to *ring forward their concerns and

perspectives