Fwd: GOV investigation
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Fwd: GOV investigation
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Subject: GOV investigation
Dear Andi,
By way of further response to your question during the Senate meeting concerning what GOV had to investigate,
I suggest that the administration be asked to provide responses concerning any consultation that they might have
been involved in that the Faculty is unaware of. For if there clearly was consultation at certain points (BAGs,
request to Senate for “comment”), there seems to be a total absence of consultation at critical moments in the
decision-making process. In my view a “full and detailed” investigation should concentrate on:
1. On the basis of what consultation particular programs were selected for deactivation;
2. At what point in the consultation process deactivation documents were forwarded to SUNY;
3. On the basis of what consultation the further formal step was taken toward discontinuance and retrenchment
of faculty, leading to the July 19 letters addressed to individual faculty;
4. Whether there was any written response from the President to the Senate’s comment and resolutions, as
explicitly required By-Law 2.4.1.
To that end I suggest that GOV:
1. Ask the President, Provost and CAS Dean:
a) what consultations were you involved in, under the terms of Faculty By-Law 2.2.2, in particular between the
end of the BAG3 deliberations and 10/1/10, but also at any other time, regarding selection of programs for
deactivation?
b) what consultations were you involved in, under the terms of Faculty By-Law 2.2.2, between March 24 and July
19, regarding the decision to discontinue programs and proceed to retrenchment of faculty as implied in letters
sent to individual faculty?
c) what written documents can you provide to substantiate your response, including e-mail correspondence,
dates of and notes from meetings.
2. Ask the CAS Dean specifically what discussions she had with Governance bodies, chairs, or CAS faculty,
under the terms of Faculty By-Law 2.2.2, between the end of the BAG3 deliberations and 10/1/10, but also at any
other time, regarding the selection of programs for deactivation;
3. Ask members of BAG3 what discussions they had with the administration regarding the selection of specific
programs for deactivation;
4. Ask the President to provide a copy of any written response made to the Senate, following Chair Lifshin's
report, under the terms of Faculty By-Law 2.4.1
5. Ask President and/or SUNY Central to provide copies of the Deactivation documents.
I am appending my copy of the July 19 letter, which you may make public as you see fit. I am also appending the
President's March 24 announcement. Other documents, including BAG reports, are available at MyUAlbany
under "Financial."
Best,
David
David Wills
Professor of French and English
Humanities 216
University at Albany-SUNY
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany NY 12210
The London Graduate School: http://www.thelondongraduateschool.co.uk/
Derrida Seminars Translation Project: http://www.derridaseminars.org/
dwills@albany.edu
Tel: (518) 442 4222
