The faculty leadership has just announced a public forum. I hope those of us expressing concerns here will take the trouble to show up and bring our colleagues. Similar forums last year were very poorly attended -- we can't expect the faculty leadership to represent us if we don't tell them what we think.
Here is the text of the email announcement:
Open Faculty Forum with Faculty Governance Leadership: Kiva Auditorium, Student
Union, Wednesday September 9, 1-3pm.
Mike Cusanovich, Wanda Howell, Robert Mitchell, J.C. Mutchler and Lynn Nadel will answer any and all questions about current events at the UA, and howfaculty governance is, and is not, playing an appropriate role.
All Faculty Members are invited, indeed encouraged, to attend to voice their opinions and ask their questions in a frank and open setting. Members of the Central Administration and Deans will not be present.
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Everyone picks on Wanda Howell and the faculty leadership for not representing faculty interests. Well, quite whining and get involved!
ReplyDeleteBe honest with yourself, when is the last time YOU got involved in a public way in voicing YOUR concern about the university and its direction?
GO to the faculty forum and make your voice heard. Speak out, especially senior tenured professors!
Let Shelton and Hay know in no uncertain terms that these concerns are NOT confined to a few whiners who had their budgets cut, but represent a large and growing body of the faculty.
We MUST stand together, or one by one they will pick us off and find ways to fire us or run us off.
Administrator Salaries in the Offices of the Provost and the President for those paid $100,000 or more per year
ReplyDeleteIn Spring 2003, total annual salaries of administrators in the offices of the Provost and President paid $100,000 or more per year was $2.4 million. 16 administrators were paid at this level.
In Spring 2009, total annual salaries of administrators in the offices of the Provost and President paid $100,000 or more per year was $5.0 million. 25 administrators were paid at this level.
In Spring 2003, 2 administrators in the offices of the Provost and President were paid $200,000 or more per year.
In Spring 2009, 10 administrators in the offices of the Provost and President were paid $200,000 or more per year.
Fear is a powerful discourse when you have a hierarchical organization in which your superior/supervisor/head/dean has practically absolute power to make decisions that seem, many times, arbitrary, unfair and irrational... like those we have seeing coming out of the current UA administration regarding budgetary and curricular issues under the guise of making us stronger and better...
ReplyDeleteexplain to me how a person that has no experience dealing with fields other than bio-chemical-medical is capable of running a very diverse land grant institution with very strong programs in addition to the sciences, in arts, humanities and social sciences and then having the audacity to imply in a meeting (according to some of my colleagues) that these programs are not central to the mission of the university...?
that is irrational in itself, yet this person does not seem to be accountable to anyone on campus... not even ABOR..., yes, yes, I know that she "responds" to the president, but as others are saying, sometimes that it seems that it is the other way around...
show up tomorrow at the faculty forum, it may be, if not else, amusing to see what our leadership has to say in defense of hay and shelton...