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All University of Arizona faculty will be asked to vote this week on referendums demanding delays in certain personnel cuts; more hiring of tenure-track faculty; pay raises for some; and
The legislation, nearing passage, would bolster the power of presidents and regents while reducing faculty members to merely “consulting” on governing, academic and personnel decisions. Arizona lawmakers are close to passing a Republican bill that would downgrade faculty members’ role in shared governance of public universities while bolstering the clout of presidents and state regents. Currently under Arizona law, the faculty “shall participate in” or “share responsibility for” governing, academic and personnel decisions. Under the new bill, professors could only “consult with...
TUCSON -- (KVOA) University of Arizona President Robert Robbins has appointed a new council of faculty, staff and students to help the president navigate through campus-wide issues including the university's
A bill aiming to limit shared governance, like the University of Arizona's Faculty Senate, is making headway in the statehouse.
TUCSON -- (KVOA) For more than five decades, Ted Downing has taught at the University of Arizona.