Regent's tenure plan
condemned by faculty
More than 300 UNL faculty, members crowded into a special
Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday, resulting in the adoption of six
resolutions condemning action by the Board of Regents at their
April 19 meeting.
The senate meeting was called by President Richard Gilbert to
encourage action concerning "a resolution adopted by the regents
which called for a quota system in determining tenure for faculty
members.
The regent's resolution also proposed that all pending tenure
recommendations be deferred for one month and that a study of
university tenure policies be undertaken.
In calling Tuesday's senate meeting, Gilbert said the adoption of
quotas on tenure would "strike a severe blow to efforts to attract
the kind of faculty member needed at UNL."
"We must act with force against this situation," Gilbert said,
and he opened the senate meeting with: "Well, they're after us
again."
Gilbert asked for unanimity from the senate and "a sense of
proportion" in their action.
The resolutions, brought forth from senate Committees, all
passed unanimously. .
'Adversary relationships'
Three resolutions from the liaison committee labeled the
regent's action as "a violation of the principle of faculty
participation in University governance," asked the regents if they
prefer "more formal and adversary relationships with the faculty,"
and requested that the regents reverse their decision to establish a
quota for tenured staff members.
Several faculty members pledged support fqr the affected
faculty members in a court challenge should the Regents refuse to
reverse the decision.
A resolution by the Academic Freedom Committee stated that
"to deny tenure to faculty presently in tenure lines is to violate an
inplied contractual agreement. . ."
About 40 faculty members were left standing in the auditorium
when the meeting began, but the auditorium was half-full by the
time the meeting adjourned, after one-and-one-half hours of debate
on the resolutions.
The senate's final meeting of the academic year will take place
May 6. Items on the agenda, according to Gilbert, include several
resolutions dealing with sabbatical leaves, campus autonomy and
funding of the State University of Nebraska (SUN).
Sabbatical leaves
The first resolution calls for the establishment of a Faculty
Development Leave program to oversee the development and
retraining of present faculty through sabbatical leaves.
Another resolution asks that campus autonomy in planning and
administering academic programs be given high priority, in or-der to
improve the presently "inadequate" involvement of local campus
faculty and administrators, and that System Office administration
of local campus activities be minimized.
The third resolution recommends that any money appropriated
for Nebraskan television or multi-media courses produced by the
University of Mid-America or similar organizations "be
appropriated into one or more ot the divisions ot the University
which have long been in existence to provide such services."
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