It’s hard to see how it’s not. UO’s Federal accreditation comes from the NWCCU. Their accreditation standards are at https://www.nwccu.org/accreditation/standards-policies/standards/
Here’s the relevant rule:
2.E.2 Financial planning includes meaningful opportunities for participation by stakeholders and ensures appropriate available funds, realistic development of financial resources, and comprehensive risk management to ensure short term financial health and long-term financial stability and sustainability.
United Academics is obviously a stakeholder. Pres Schill’s administration has repeatedly rejected the union’s efforts to have meaningful participation in financial planning – most recently, the planning that the administration is now doing on how to deal with the financial consequences of the coronavirus on the university.
Don’t know answer, but only a little off topic — word in the markets is that the students are returning! Miss friends, had enough of mom and dad probably vice versa. Bodes well for UO.
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If you think that everything will get back to what it was simply because you opened the campus, you really haven’t been paying much attention. You have no idea of your student’s current economic situation. I’ll tell you that, for many of them, getting back to university is the least of their concerns…
Accreditation standards? That is so 2019. To navigate the current crisis, a new paradigm must govern:
“The president…has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful. The president…calls the shots.”
You forgot to get in the word “flexibility.” Unlike the President of the U.S., ours likes to “have flexibility” to be “flexible” and respond with “flexibility” to difficult situations — which are always present — corona or no corona.
You really should be asking where faculty senate fits in for the budgeting process. one of the issues I see with faculty unionization is the union becomes the senate and vice versa. Your relationship as a union and administration is by its very nature adversarial. Your relationship as a senate and administration SHOULD be one of shared governance. Not saying it is, but it should. The union and the senate are distinct bodies although the union generally bleeds into and eventually takes over the senate.