The AAUP (American Association of University Professors)intervenes legally on behalf of University faculty members.
The UA Chapter of the AAUP has apparently ceased --or paused-- its activities.
Any UA faculty members wishing to know more about AAUP protection may find information here. Anyone interested in reviving the UA chapter of AAUP should look here.
[original posting date 8/30/09]
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Sorry to change the subject, but what happened to the hiring freeze? 70 new faculty hired this year, and $12 million just reported today in the Star for new faculty hires in the sciences.
ReplyDeleteThere seems to me to be a sea-change in this transformation plan that is not being reported. The University is reallocating resources into the research sciences with the hope of private business payoff. According to Overpeck at Bio5, they need to get "the best return for their investment."
If we want to be technical school only, then fine. But it needs to be said up front--we are cutting the liberal arts and traditional teaching colleges in favor of a laboratory polytechnic. And if faculty and programs are only going to be judged by the "return on their investment" in private money, then the curriculum will be decided by the market (when public education was always supposed to be protected from private interest). The far-ranging consequences of this shift is like trying to turn a UCLA into a CIT--there are reasons for it, but what do the consituents of Arizona think? Remember, science-only research schools can't carry the same number of students, so the urge to become science-only and bigger at the same time smells of failure.
I agree with the above comment. I think turning into a technical schools is total failure. We already have enough technical schools in Arizona. Lumping all the liberal arts into one super college is just causing more administrative overhead. Furthermore, we already had a super college people and it DIDN'T work!
ReplyDeleteWhat? Are we missing something? The Provost has said time and again that she WANTS to only educate the elite and that she WANTS to turn UA into a "Science Powerhouse."
ReplyDeleteNo matter what she says to the contrary, her distribution of financial resources clearly indicate her priorities. Hiring freeze for the entire campus. 3 to 5 year hiring freeze for COH and SBS. $12 M hiring INITIATIVE for her pet science programs.
We MUST revive the UA chapter of the AAUP. It's our only chance for survival before all faculty are reduced to contract laborers. Who is willing to work with us to do this?
ReplyDeleteYes, average employees and faculty who are working hard get furloughs (pay cuts). New high valued faculty get hired. The President gets a huge raise and gives a tax deduction in his own name for scholarships (?), and the Faculty Senate sits on its hands and closes its eyes...about as effective as a high school home room class.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know whether/where the information on the budget cuts is? Is it public? I've heard a lot about 7% cuts for this college, 2% cuts for that college... but I haven't seen anything documented. Is it not being made public?
ReplyDeleteA college of Liberal Arts and Sciences (or Letters, Arts, and Sciences) is a good idea ONLY if it has an independent dean to advocate for liberal education as such. Asking the Dean of Science to be an equal advocate for the arts and humanities and social sciences is unfair to the person, the units, and the university.
ReplyDeletePerhaps there is one body that cares about poor leadership at the university. Not the state legislature or the board of regents but the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The people who visit our campus and make recommendations for reaccreditation want to know about problems of the university as well as supposed achievements of its administrators.
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