Robert Gordon University The two universities also compete annually in the Granite City Challenge which sees teams across a range of sports compete to be the best in the city. The Robert Gordon University has 2 partner schools in Switzerland: In 2010, RGU gained international attention for awarding an honorary degree to controversial American businessman Donald Trump, whose mother was from Scotland. This featured in the 2012 documentary film "You've Been Trumped" which documented the progress of the construction of Trump's golf course near Aberdeen from the point of view of local residents. In the film Dr David Kennedy, former Principal of the
Robert Gordon University the main Garthdee campus but many other administrative departments and staff are based at the Administration Building at Schoolhill in the city centre. Chancellors At Scottish universities, the Principal of the university is its general chief executive and is the administrative head of the institution, second in precedence only to the Chancellor. This means that the day-to-day running and leadership of the university is the responsibility of the Principal. Principal and Vice-Chancellors In May 2018 an internal probe was launched after an anonymous whistleblower highlighted that RGU's newly-appointed Vice-Principal for Commercial and Regional Innovation, Gordon McConnell, formerly the Head of