Neil Fassina, former provost and academic vice-president of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, started work in his new role as president of Athabasca University this week.
The first major item on the new president's agenda? Well, it probably should be figuring out what to do about the Athabasca University Students' Union's plan to take the university to court over retroactive changes to the AU nursing program's regulations by the Faculty of Health Disciplines.