SHARED GOVERNANCE AT SOUTHERN MISS

(February 3, 2012) “It’s Not Gonna Happen” The Saunders Administration’s Behind- the-Scenes Fight against Shared Governance At the 27-Jan-2012 USM faculty senate meeting, senate president Timothy Rehner reported to the faculty senate that the Martha Saunders administration has moved a significant portion of the institution’s student retention apparatus from academic affairs to student affairs.

(February 8, 2012) Disenfranchised, or Just Plain Dis-sed? by Victoria Tyler At the most recent USM faculty senate meeting on 27-Jan-2012, senate president Timothy Rehner opened with the following remarks: “We’ve got to get the rest of the senators to show up . . . We’re just over 50% I think, counting our proxies . . .” The remarks clearly showed Rehner’s frustration with the current level of participation among USM’s elected faculty government.

(February 10, 2012) The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 10-February-2012 USM CCO to USM Faculty Senate: You’re Powerless Ed Kemp, the higher education reporter for The Hattiesburg American, filed an interesting report for the 8-Feb-2012 issue of the paper that examines the importance of shared governance at USM. In it, Kemp provides more on the faculty senate’s role on the USM campus, and whether or not the faculty senate president should have a seat on the executive cabinet at USM.