SHARED GOVERNANCE IN THE COB
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(April 6, 2008) The Doty Sidestep: How to Bypass Faculty Governance Part 1: The Digital MBA
(April 6, 2008) The Doty Sidestep: How to Bypass Faculty Governance Part 2: The Secret Degree Program
(April 6, 2008) The Doty Sidestep: How to Bypass Faculty Governance Part 3: The Health Care Marketing Program
(April 6, 2008) The Doty Sidestep: How to Bypass Faculty Governance Part 4: Letter of Agreement
(April 6, 2008) The Doty Sidestep: How to Bypass Faculty Governance Part 5: Academic Suspension Policy
(April 13, 2008) As the “Confidentiality” turns . . . . . According to reports received, the CoB dean search committee has done their job and were reminded that they are sworn to secrecy about it all. Does this make any sense? Members of this committee are on it because some of them were appointed and some were elected. In theory, the committee represents the faculty and staff of the CoB. If that is the situation, why are the faculty and staff not allowed to know who this committee selected as its top choice for the new dean? Since there is such a limited voice for faculty and staff anyway, how could this information hurt anyone if it is made public? The only answer left is cover for the President if she does not agree with the committee’s selection. She wants to operate in secret and not be held accountable for her decisions. That is unacceptable. The minimum asked in this kind of process is for the decision makers to state his or her decision and the reasons for it.
(November 19, 2008) Special Report “Black Tuesday” Epilogue? An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain The following insert was first published by USMNEWS.net as part of CoB News, 29 October 2008. It concerns recent events related to Black Tuesday in the CoB, which is one of the links in the USMNEWS.net Archives. This portion of that prior CoB News installment deserves its own report, and to be housed on the Black Tuesday in the CoB page of the Archives.
(May 4, 2009) And the Winner is . . . How Much Faculty Governance is Occurring in the Selection of CoB Dept Chairs? Nail's choice of Donna Davis sounds more like the sort of fait accompli that carried the day in the EFIB throughout the Harold Doty administration of the CoB (2003-07). Given that, one might conclude that a little bit of "faculty governance took the day off" is just what the doctor order vis-à-vis the CoB's all-too-politicized economists. One can, and should, still hope, however, that Nail confines any faculty governance lapses to matters concerning the CoB's economists. If such a policy becomes widespread then CoB faculty will be left wondering just how much, and how good, the "change" being ushered in by the Nail administration really is after all.