Restructuring comes for CoLA

To any not in this particular loop, restructuring is now making its way to the remaining ten departments in CoLA (i.e., those not included within the proposed college of Arts and Media or otherwise already shipped off to other colleges.

Attached here are two relevant documents: the “Solicitation of Feedback” memo from the administration, and a response by Joseph Brown of Africana Studies, which was written up in preparation for a meeting held for CoLA faculty on January 21.

Solicitation of Feedback – CoLA Jan 2020

Notes for 1-21-20 CoLA meeting

Memo of understanding on PT for 2019-2020

The FA and administration worked out some procedures for promotion and tenure during the 2019-2020 cycle.

Quick summary:

For faculty in the news schools (established by July 1, 2019):

Will “chair” for PT purposes will be elected by faculty from old unit/department

College committee will be that of old college.

Dean will be dean of old college.

For faculty remaining in old units/departments

Chair is current chair (no change)

College committee, at candidate’s option, is either:

Committee of old college (include reps from departments that have left)

Committee of new/remnant college (i.e., not including reps from departments that have left)

Dean is current dean (no change)

In all cases, the standards outlined in the unit OP at the time of hire (or last promotion) are to be used.

The full memo can be found here:

MOA on PT 19-20

BOT presentation 5/15/2019

Attached you’ll find a pdf of our presentation to the BOT on 15 May.

Union BOT Presentation May 19 2019

April 2019 School Approvals

Here are the files transmitted to the IBHE on April 23, 2019, which the IBHE approved within 48 hours, despite faculty disapproval of three of the five proposed: Agriculture; Analytics, Finance, and Economics; and Management and Marketing.

Cover letters and other documents

04.23.19 J.S. Allen letter to Dr. Bernoteit

List of current proposed colleges 

IBHE to Admin_April_2019

RME’s

RME Education

RME Analytics Finance and Economics

RME Agricultural Sciences

RME Management and Marketing

RME Human Sciences

Meeting update

First another thanks to all the, faculty, students, and staff who attended our meeting on Monday. I’ve received positive reviews from people with rather different takes on the issues discussed, which I (Dave Johnson) take as a good sign.

The most pressing thing right now is what to do if you are among the people who believe that the restructuring process is off course, and is doing SIUC more harm than good. After the break, arguments worth making, goals worth pursuing, and means to achieve those goals.  Read more of this post

Info on the schools under review (4/9/2019)

We post here some documents about the three proposed schools currently (as of 4/9/2019, to the best of our knowledge) under review by Interim President Dorsey.

I. Original schools opposed by faculty 

The three schools below have been rejected by faculty in their units, the Faculty Senate, and the Graduate Council, but have nonetheless been approved by Interim Chancellor Dunn and forwarded to Interim President Dorsey for his review.

There are two sorts of documents linked below. The first are the Program Change Plans. These provide the administration’s formal proposals and paperwork, but also, vitally, any dissenting opinions submitted by faculty.

The second type of document are the FA Reports on these proposals. These reviews were written for the Faculty Senate and Graduate Council, and represent the FA’s best effort to highlight issues we thought those bodies should consider as they voted on the relevant plans.

A page giving faculty votes by department for each school can be found here.

Agricultural Sciences

Program change plan

FA report

Analytics, Finance, and Economics

Program change plan

FA report

Education

Program change plan

FA report

II. Revised schools with faculty support

Two other schools are also under review at the system level. These were resubmitted for faculty votes following some changes made as the result of settlement negotiations between the FA and the administration. Faculty voted in favor overall, but there are some no votes and dissenting views.

Here’s the backstory. The settlement between the FA and administration resulted in the Sports Administration faculty (and their program) being allowed to remain with their colleagues in Kinesiology in the proposed School of Human Sciences rather than being forced to move to Management and Marketing. This change allowed the FA to drop the relevant grievance, as it met the major concerns of our grievants. These schools were then subject to votes in the relevant units, but have not been reviewed again by the FS or GC (as part of the FA settlement, we agreed not to require this review, though neither does the settlement prevent such review). Nor has the FA done a new set of reports. 

Materials posted here include the original plans and FA reports. These contain much that remains relevant but have in some respects been superseded by subsequent events; subsequent events are reflected in the “new materials” the FA was provided as part of the new round of faculty votes this spring. These are supplied here in the rather undisgested form in which they were provided to us. 

Human Sciences

Original program change plan

Original FA report

New materials

School of Social Work Faculty Vote on Program Change Plan 2019

Faculty Meeting Minutes Special Reorg

School of Social Work Director Letter 2018 Reorganization

PVC-Approval Form-School of Human Sciences-Modified – KIN Vote

PVC-Approval Form-School of Human Sciences-Modified ASFN

PVC-Approval Form-School of Human Sciences-Modified

Copy of PHRP 3.25.19 Minutes

PVC-Approval Form-School of Human Sciences-Modified_1

Management and Marketing

Original program change plan

Original FA report

New materials

PVC-Approval Form-School of Management and Marketing-Modified

PVC-Approval Form-School of Management and Marketing-Modified – Marketing

Email from Management

Slides from Open Meeting (4/8/2019)

Here are the slide from the meeting on 4/8/2019.

We’ll be in touch with those who signed up about next steps. Anyone who would like to be added to the email list generated by the meeting can send Dave J an email at dmj2@me.com.