The Sunday Interview: Jim Browne
NUIG Galway is emerging from the glare of publicity surrounding its recent loss at the Equality Tribunal. Its president, Jim Browne, talks about future funding, unions and affirmative action
Jim Browne is in a hurry, in more ways than one. He strides into the dining room of
the Quad, the oldest building on the 260-acre NUIG campus, with a copy of the
university’s new five-year strategic plan under his arm.
The university’s president wastes little time on pleasantries; he has to be
somewhere in 40 minutes, he says, so I can eat while he talks. And so, as coffee is
poured and ...