Originally posted 17 Jan. Updated Jan 24 because of a comment that may interest others. Please read comments. Ed Note: This is copied from the UW Senate Blog. Unfortunately, and I suspect illegally, that blog is protected from public view. UW staff, however can access the blog directly[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Faculty Senate’
January 18th, 2011 - 12:54 pm § in Misc.
Aprikyan: Scientific smear campaign?
The issues relating to the need for due process in scientific fraud at the UW, are illustrated by this frightening report from the Scientist about a scandal in Germany. There is, however, one very important difference. The investigation at at Research Center Borstel seems to have fol[...]
Is the UW Senate Powerless to Act?
The following is part of an email from three UW Senators to their colleagues in the faculty. It sounds to me as if the Senate is taking no action on the abuse of Andrew Aprikyan other than saying the President was wrong. Does the Senate have no authority? Can a UW admin. violate the Code […[...]
January 12th, 2011 - 2:54 pm § in Uncategorized
Disarm the campus at University of Arizona
Fowarded by Dr. Neuron, an Ave contributor: As a faculty member, I would be hesitant to walk into a classroom where I knew guns were likely to be present. I am sure that many in other occupations who work in public feel the same way, especially now. I think it is only common sense that [&helli[...]
January 11th, 2011 - 7:16 pm § in Misc.
Faculty Senate Chair J.W. Harrington: “Someone needs to draw up a draft of something that could be discussed and approved as an interpretation from this body.”
The report of the Senate Executive Committee meeting of the Aprikyan affair appeared in today’s Daily and is copied below. I was not there, but it appears that the highest committee of the faculty has clearly stated that the administration was wrong. The question is what next. Professor Ha[...]
January 9th, 2011 - 6:09 pm § in Misc.
Aprikyan: An Appeal for Justice.
The Time Has Come for the UW to Admit it Was Wrong. A few days ago, a respected colleague dismissed Andrew Aprikyan’s case, saying that “of course” Dr. Aprikyan was and is guilty. I refused to comment, not because I know that Andrew Aprikyan is innocent but because I feel Dr. Apr[...]
UW Senate: Future of The University of Washington
Bruce Balick is the former Chair of the Faculty Senate and currently Chairs the Senate Committee on Planning and Budgeting What follows is his committee’s recommendations to Provost Lidstrrom for how we should manage the budget crisis. I am struck by this document’s lack of priorities.[...]
Not so “shared governance” at WSU?
Washington State U. Defies AAUP Chapter With Budget Cuts December 17, 2010, 2:45 pm Washington State University officials have moved ahead with $13.5-million in budget cuts over the objections of that institution’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which protested that [...]
November 13th, 2010 - 10:22 am § in UW
The administration is systematically violating the Faculty Code.
More on the UW administration’s problems with following the Faculty Code. In this letter, stored in our Library, Attorney David Corbett defends a faculty member from UW Tacoma. The letter, however, is not really about that faculty member. The letter details, in a very orderly way, a series[...]
November 13th, 2010 - 9:10 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
AAUP Writes Letter to Presidential Search Committee, While Only 2 Faculty Show Up to Talk with The Commitee!
Letter to the Search Committee from the AAUP: “Mark Emmert gravely undermined the principles of shared governance.” The University Chapter of the AAUP has written a very worrisome letter to the Presidential Search Committee. The key charge in the letter is that the administration has u[...]