Another Board Chair resigns as faculty counter attack on shared governance

10/26/2015: UVA, UBC, and now UNC. InsideHigherEd has the latest here:

Fennebresque, a lawyer who has been on the board since 2011 and became its chair last year, was seen as largely responsible for pushing out the previous president, Thomas W. Ross, for reasons that were never quite clear. He led the search for Ross’s replacement, which ended Friday when the board selected Spellings, the former U.S. education secretary, as president. Many observers of the search, including some of Fennebresque’s fellow board members and some Republican legislators who had backed his selection as chair, criticized the secrecy that enveloped the process and the fact that Spellings appeared to be the only candidate whom the board fully considered.

10/23/2015: Faculty condemn board’s egregious presidential search actions

No, I’m not talking about the UO faculty and the UO Board of Trustees.

As much as UO Board Chair Chuck Lillis likes to complain about the UO faculty and our supposedly dysfunctional Senate, the truth is that we’re a bunch of softies, who barely raised a peep over the secretive presidential search Lillis and Ballmer ran, and desperately want to help the UO Board do the right thing.

I’m talking about the UNC faculty, here:

You don’t have to be a professor of american history to know what usually comes after “long train of …”. But this time it’s just “problematic governance actions”. Seriously? That’s it? Where’s the

… abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.