Langara University has been rocked by layoffs and economic uncertainty, and now its leadership is under question.

A vote of non-confidence in president Paula Burns was held Thursday at a special general meeting of the Langara Faculty Association, which announced 92 per cent of the participating faculty said they had no confidence in the Burns’ leadership of the Vancouver post-secondary institution.

The vote does not have any legal effect, but the faculty association called on the board of governors to remove Burns and install an interim president from an internal position, putting a Nov. 1 deadline on their request.

Schools across the country have taken seismic shocks after the international student cap.

At Langara, nearly 220 faculty were cut in three rounds of layoffs. The school say

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