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Faculty senate votes 'no confidence' in University of Arizona president

The University of Arizona faculty senate recently voted "no confidence" in President Robert Robbins over the handling of an on-campus killing of a professor.

Thomas Meixner was gunned down last October, allegedly by a man with a history of threatening university staff and students.

In a resolution passed Monday, the faculty senate said Robbins failed to take reasonable steps to protect Mexiner and others and was combative toward a faculty-committee report on campus safety.

Sen. Lucy Ziurys was pessimistic the resolution would amount to much.

“Even though I voted in favor of this, I don’t think it’s going to do any good. We’ve done this sort of thing over and over again. It’s like playing a broken record,” said Ziurys.

The state Board of Regents says it fully supports Robbins and the chair encourages the faculty senate to work constructively. 

Matthew Casey has won Edward R. Murrow awards for hard news and sports reporting since he joined KJZZ as a senior field correspondent in 2015.