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also resigned their positions in protest of Wente's appointment. One day after the appointment was made, the college announced that it was reviewing the appointment and Wente's "writings and conduct to assess whether they are consistent with the college’s values". On 22 June 2020, Wente wrote the
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professor Alissa Trotz resigned from her senior fellowship as well as her positions on the college's
Governing Board and Governance and Nominating Committee in protest of what she called the college's "non-transparent mechanisms of selection," referring to Wente as "someone who has demonstrated
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subsequently took unspecified punitive actions against Wente for a column written in 2009. Editor John
Stackhouse acknowledged that "the journalism in this instance did not meet the standards of The Globe and Mail", noting that the work in question was "unacceptable". However, Wente continued to
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for column-writing in 2000 and 2001. In 2012, Wente was found to have plagiarized on a number of occasions. She was suspended from writing her column, but later reinstated. However, in 2016, she was found to have failed to meet her newspaper's attribution standards in two more columns.
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college's governing council to inform them of her resignation from the position, stating "I do not wish to be a member of the
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consistent and outright hostility to questions of equity, women and gender studies and anti-racism, and moreover someone who has demonstrated such a glaring lack of professional integrity." Senior
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