Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 11:07 AMSubject: Queries to Public Health Team from SU AAUP Dear Ramesh, The Provost’s office offered you as the direct contact person for the University’s Public Health Team. Thank you, and the rest of the group, for your ongoing work, much of it invisible to the broader campus. We are writing as… Read More Queries to Public Health Team
Date: Monday, August 23, 2021 at 4:31 PMSubject: RE: AAUP Questions on faculty control and covid safety Dear Provost Liu and Associate Provost Johnson, We wanted to follow up on our below AAUP message. We are very disappointed the new guidance announced Friday August 20th does not give faculty the autonomy to decide to require… Read More Faculty Control and Covid Safety
April 28, 2021 A talk by Michael DeCesare, chair of the national AAUP’s governance committee, on how to strengthen the faculty’s role in governing Universities – including SU. The talk will be followed by a short Q&A and brainstorming discussion on how to apply the insights to the SU context.Links: https://www.aaup.org/report/statement-government-colleges-and-universities
[to be introduced at April 21 Senate meeting] Whereas the Senate recognizes the potential benefits of updating and digitizing processes for faculty evaluation, especially for tenure and promotion review, Whereas all issues related to faculty evaluation must be developed with meaningful and substantive faculty participation, and the decision to implement a Faculty Information System (FIS)… Read More Resolution on Faculty Information Systems (FIS) / Faculty Evaluation
Dear Dean [name]: We are writing to bring to your attention a concern regarding the memo circulated by Provost Liu on January 27, 2021 titled “Important Policy and Process Matters Relating to Non-tenure-track and Pre-tenure Faculty Reviews and Promotion for Tenure.” The memo requires all tenure files to include the table copied at the bottom… Read More Letter to Deans Concerning Faculty Review Table
In early October, SU-AAUP conducted two forums and circulated a campus-wide survey to all faculty concerning teaching modality in a time of Pandemic. Over 100 faculty registered for the forums and over 300 completed the survey, representing 20% of faculty from all schools and across all ranks, including teaching faculty and part-time instructors. Faculty expressed… Read More Instruction During Pandemic: SU-AAUP Report November 23, 2020
Numerous concerns were discussed at the forums on teaching modality. A detailed report will be distributed at the end of October. Some topics of discussions include: · Ways to best engage principles of shared governance and the importance of full faculty participating in teaching modality decisions · Concerns among all faculty ranks that instructors with… Read More SU AAUP Forums Campus-wide Survey on Teaching in the Pandemic: Quick Findings
Saturday, October 24th, 9:00am-3pm This FREE Conference program is designed for YOU: “Organizing in the ‘Non-Community’ College and University Environment,” with Caprice Lawless, Co-President of AAUP Colorado Conference & ‘Organizer Extraordinaire’: Do you want to learn how to raise eyebrows, turn heads, change minds, snag headlines, and dog administrators? See how you can turn your administration’s… Read More NYSC AAUP Fall 2020 Business Meeting / Conference
On Tuesday evening [June 9], SU’s American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter held a faculty forum to discuss the administration’s planning for fall 2020. In our unprecedented historical moment of pandemic and financial threat to private higher education of the highest order, it is clear that SU faculty are unequivocally committed to assuring that… Read More SU professors demand more power in education decision making
With Covid-19, as in all other matters, the SU administration must commit to principles of social justice and anti-racism, not only with words, but with action.… Read More SU-AAUP Letter on Social and Racial Justice Concerns, August 20, 2020
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