Kwantlen Polytechnic University continues to be caught in controversies in many areas for more than a decade
Kwantlen Polytechnic University has been the centre of controversy for over 10 years. The various controversies have often involved finances with the Ministry of Advanced Education’s Amrik Virk, the Kwantlen Student Association, the Kwantlen Public Research Interest Group, the president of the university, and a researcher of assisted suicide, and, in fact, much, much more.
Amrik Virk, the BC government advanced education minister at the time, was involved in a financial scandal with Kwantlen Polytechnic University where Virk was aware of a series of bonuses paid to executives in the university (Link, 2015; CBC News, 2014).
John Horgan at the time suggested Virk be dumped from cabinet, saying, “Mr. Virk has demonstrated bad judgment not once, not twice, but three times and it’s probably time for him to get out of cabinet” (Ibid.).
Tamara Connor (2016) reported on the corruption in the student union back to 2005 with the student society robbing students of about $1 million in student fees. The head of the student union at the time, Aaron Takhar, changed the bylaws and in a Special General Meeting presented a 200-page document, which included a 130% pay increase to the executive directors, loss of positions for the…
