Category Archives: Governance

Continuing to adopt terms: tenure-stream and teaching-stream

Last year, our Faculty Senate President suggested widespread adoption of these terms. No binary set is ever going to cover the complexity of academic appointments, but, as he pointed out, defining one group of faculty as “non” is just not … Continue reading

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Discretion demands accountability

Discretion demands accountability, is my motto for the year. Does not show up in jstor or Google Scholar or Google Books, though it does show up in a few AI-related web articles…. So, at my discretion, I declare myself the … Continue reading

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A stab at the scope of shared faculty governance at the school level in a university

I was thinking about what the scope is for collaborative governance in a school within a university. Often the institutions and norms of shared governance are weakest at the school level. University governance gets a lot of attention, and department … Continue reading

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School governance in a university setting

I have been thinking about the issue of school governance in the university setting. One way of engaging in the conversation is through introspection on relevant questions. Relevant for the school and academic departments. I thought I would start a … Continue reading

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