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Western administrators squeezed faculty, shrunk staffing and left empty vacated positions. Chakma's pay was a result of "double-dipping," allowing him
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Chakma is an advocate for promoting international education and has written and commented extensively on this topic. He chaired an
Advisory Panel on Canada's International Education Strategy in 2011–12. One of the key recommendations was to double the number of international students in Canada by
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University of Regina in 1998, Chakma hired Lana Nguyen as a professor of systems software engineering. Chakma said in his recommendation that "Nguyen's candidacy has been the fruit of our relentless proactive efforts in identifying potential women faculty
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Research Excellence Program" by the Government of Canada to support competitively selected Canadian post secondary institutions to turn their key strengths into world-leading
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Ontario Marketing and Recruitment Agency, a crown corporation set up to build and maintain the province's health human resources capacity by supporting the government's strategic direction of health workforce planning from 2007 to 2010.
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Immigrants Award. The award citation described how Chakma used education as the basis for his remarkable journey as a young boy from a tribe in the hills of southeastern Bangladesh to becoming a university president in Canada.
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members." Nguyen taught at Regina for two years before students and faculty, suspicious on account of Nguyen's apparent lack of knowledge, discovered that she had defrauded the
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870:"Amit Chakma - Canadian Immigrant"
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573:"Executive Profile: Amit Chakma"
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