Stuart McCutcheon

Stuart Norman McCutcheon is a New Zealand university administrator and current chair of Universities NZ. Until March 2020 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, at which point he was the longest serving current Vice-Chancellor in New Zealand, having served three five-year terms. He was previously Vice-Chancellor at Victoria University of Wellington, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Massey University.[2]

Stuart N. McCutcheon
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland
In office
January 2005 – March 2020
ChancellorRoger France
Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington
In office
November 2000[1] – December 2004
Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Massey University
In office
January 1999 – ?
Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research) of Massey University
In office
January 1994 – December 1998
Personal details
BornWellington, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materMassey University

In 2012, he was the highest paid public sector worker in New Zealand.[3][4]

Education

McCutcheon was educated at Massey University where he graduated with a BAgrSc (Hons) with first class honours in 1976 before becoming a lecturer whilst completing a 1981 PhD in metabolic physiology, A study of some factors affecting the resistance of newborn lambs to cold-stress with particular reference to starvation and exposure mortality, studying under M. F. McDonald, C. W. Holmes and Alexander Lindsay Rae.[5][2]

Controversies

McCutcheon has a record of enabling neo-nazi sentiment on his campuses, illustrated by these incidents from 2019 when he was Vice-Chancellor at the University of Auckland.

In April 2019, some University of Auckland students complained that individuals wearing swastikas were intimidating students, while fascist posters, stickers and white supremacist messages were reportedly appearing on campus. McCutcheon acknowledged two issues involving a small group of students, but also said there was no evidence of an increase in such problems. Some students thought he was trivialising the matter.[6]

In September 2019, McCutcheon was criticised for not removing posters by a white supremacist group.[7][8][9][10]

References
  1. Dye, Stuart (2 June 2004). "Auckland University hires chief from capital". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  2. "Professor Stuart McCutcheon - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  3. "Public service bosses' pay revealed". NZ Newswire. 11 October 2012.
  4. "Auckland Uni tops vice-chancellor pay rates". Newstalk ZB. 12 October 2012.
  5. McCutcheon, Stuart Norman (October 1, 1981). "A study of some factors affecting the resistance of newborn lambs to cold-stress with particular reference to starvation and exposure mortality : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Animal Science at Massey University" – via mro.massey.ac.nz.
  6. "Auckland Uni white supremacy claims 'utter nonsense', vice-chancellor says". Stuff. 12 April 2019.
  7. "Auckland Uni management won't act on white supremacist flyers". RNZ News. 1 October 2019.
  8. "Students protest Auckland University's refusal to remove 'white supremacist' material". Newshub. 1 October 2019.
  9. "White supremacists at Auckland Uni: Students call out uni's refusal to remove signs". Stuff. 1 October 2019.
  10. Meech, Daniel (30 September 2019). "Auckland University refuses to remove white supremacist signs from campus". The Spinoff.
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