AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) The University of Maine System chancellor who didn’t think a no-confidence vote was important enough to share with a search committee is now the subject of his own no-confidence vote.

The faculty senate at the University of Maine at Augusta issued no-confidence votes in Chancellor Dannel Malloy and in the presidential search that led to the hiring of Michael R. Laliberte to lead the Augusta campus.

Malloy knew that Laliberte had been the subject of votes of no confidence at State University of New York at Delhi, and he has acknowledged that he should’ve informed the search committee that hired Laliberte for the new post at the Augusta campus.

Malloy and the chair of the search committee were told of Laliberte’s background by Storbeck Search, a consulting firm that helps identify suitable candidates for jobs in higher education.

Malloy issued another apology and the University of Maine System executive committee also weighed in on Thursday, a day after the faculty senate’s actions. The faculty want to restart the search.

“I understand how serious a concern this is for the university and the system, and I will work with everyone at UMA to restore confidence in me,” Malloy said in a statement.

The executive committee said it’s ” reviewing what can be done to improve the integrity of UMS presidential searches, as well as the confidence of our university communities in them.”

Laliberte didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment.

While at the State University of New York at Delhi, faculty and students took votes of no confidence in his leadership. Concerns were aired over his management of budgets, his lack of transparency and his enablement of a “culture of disrespect and hostility.”

Malloy said previously that the concerns behind the no confidence votes against Laliberte were found to be without merit.