11/2/2011: This is a weird one. I just got the email saying:
The special election for the Promotion Tenure-Retention Appeals Committee (PTRAC) and the Faculty Grievance Appeals Committee (FGAC) has begun. To cast your vote, please log on to DuckWeb and click on the 2011 Faculty/Staff Election tab: https://duckweb.uoregon.edu/pls/prod/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin
When I go there, I find that all of the people put up to run for the Faculty Grievance Appeal Committee are administrators. That will keep you damn professors in your place. What in the world is (Professor) Peter Gilkey, FGAC Chair, up to with this?
Update: the OAR says “shall be unclassified academic employees with faculty rank.” You decide:
The records on the rest of the nominees also say “RANK: No Rank.” OA’s need a grievance appeals process too. So, let’s write one for them. This does not justify the attempt to stack the Faculty GAC with Gilkey and 2 administrators.
Did no faculty volunteer?
Did Gilkey ask any faculty?
“Committee members shall be unclassified academic employees with faculty rank.” – http://committees.uoregon.edu/node/40
Do any of these people have faculty rank?
not the first time Gilkey has tried to rig an election.
I think the first commenter is correct – probably no volunteers. Ever serve on the Committee on Committees? The same people sign up year after year. Many people on campus never serve. I highly doubt that there is anything conspiratorial here.
I searched my email and can’t find anything from Peter or the C on C asking for faculty volunteers. Did any faculty get asked? If so please post a comment.
Gilkey put the math department’s office manager up for this election? That manipulative son of a bitch.
Although I might be wrong about this, it appears that this committee reviews cases of failure to renew appointments for officers of administration as well as faculty tenure and promotion problems. It’s not just restricted to teaching faculty. Given that there are several teaching faculty continuing on the committee perhaps not so terrible for the OAs to have a peer member. But, alas, I’m in UO Matters land where such a point of view would hardly be tolerated. Carry on with the snarky remarks.
Check the rules: (2b) Committee members shall be unclassified academic employees with faculty rank.
a) Peter Gilkey had nothing to do with the election. The election was organized and run by the Secretary of the Faculty Chris Prosser.
b) The FGAC consists of 5 persons (OAR 571-003). It hears grievances both from officers of administration and officers of instruction. The 3 continuing members of the committee are all officers of instruction. So even after the election, a majority of the committee will be officers of instruction. It seems appropriate that officers of administration serve on the committee.
An email was sent by Chris Prosser to everyone on campus who is eligible to serve on the committee outlining the process for getting on the ballot pursuant to OAR 571-003. If no officers of instruction were nominated and 4 officers of administration were nominated, that indicates a certain failure of initative on the part of officers of instruction.
This process is controlled and run pursuant to OAR 571-003.
Here is an email I got soliciting nominations to the FGAC
To: UO Faculty and Officers of Administration
date Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:26 PM
subject UO Special Election for the Faculty Grievance Appeals Committee (FGAC)
mailed-by uoregon.edu
From: Christopher Prosser, Executive Coordinator to the Statutory Faculty Assembly
Re: UO Special Election for the Faculty Grievance Appeals Committee (FGAC)
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
A special fall term election is being held to staff the FGAC.
The Faculty Grievance Appeal Committee shall hear all grievances excepting those concerning denial of promotion, denial of tenure (or denial of both), or failure to renew an appointment in violation of the grievant’s rights. The term of office is three years.
NOMINATION ELIGIBILITY
Nominees for the FGAC must be unclassified academic employees with faculty rank or officers of administration employed at 0.5 FTE or higher. Candidates for the FGAC may be nominated by petition which must be signed by at least ten valid signatures of voting faculty or OAs.
Please submit your signed petitions to Christopher Prosser, Executive Coordinator to the Statutory Faculty Assembly, at 110 Johnson Hall, Office of the President. The election is scheduled to begin on Monday, October 24, and end on Friday, October 28 at 5PM. Voting will take place via DuckWeb. Please submit all questions regarding the special election to Christopher Prosser.
University service is a crucial part of our system of shared governance. Thank you for submitting your petition and for your commitment and dedication to the University of Oregon.
Sincerely,
Christopher S. Prosser
Executive Coordinator to the University Senate and Statutory Faculty Assembly
Office of the President
110 Johnson Hall
University of Oregon
1501 Kincaid Street
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
Nice try Peter, but the announcement conflicts with the OAR at http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/pages/rules/oars_500/oar_571/571_003.html
which says “Committee members shall be unclassified academic employees with faculty rank”
One of the people put up to run is a low level administrator in the athletic department. Come on.
571-003-0007
Composition of Faculty Grievance Appeal Committees
(1) The faculty grievance procedure described in OAR 571-003-0005 calls for two elected faculty grievance committees to be available to consider appeals at Step Two. These committees have been established by Faculty Legislation.
(2) The Grievance Appeal Committee shall hear, on request of the faculty member grieving at Step Two, all grievances excepting those concerning denial of promotion, denial of tenure (or denial of both), or failure to renew an appointment in violation of the grievant’s rights:
(a) The committee shall have its five members elected by the non-students eligible to vote at meetings of the University Assembly;
(b) Committee members shall be unclassified academic employees with faculty rank. The Committee on Committees shall insure a slate of at least two candidates each year for each open position. Candidates may also be nominated by petition which must be signed by at least ten valid signatures of voting faculty. Petitions shall be distributed by the Secretary of the Faculty. Ballots shall contain candidates nominated by the Committee on Committees and those nominated by petition;
Lots of administrators have faculty rank. I don’t know why. I do. My ID says “faculty.” It’s just something about the admin structure.
Peter butt-kisses Johnson Hall every chance he can, but I don’t think he’ll ever get an administrative job in return. It’s not for lack of trying.
After the giant fight on multicultural requirements, administrators cannot have faculty rank. Officers of Administration that still have faculty rank are the ones that had this prior to the change. This happened in about 1994. Prior to that people in housing etc could have faculty rank.
Lots of administrators might have faculty rank, but if they do, they had it before becoming administration (or 1994, if that was the rule–before my time). The requirement for the FGAC that members come from faculty has a clear purpose, and if “no candidates came forward” the answer isn’t to consider the rule in abeyance and appoint others, it’s to find out why nobody was forthcoming. I suspect many senior faculty would readily tell anyone who asked exactly why.
(Addendum: besides, section 2b above seems to have been declared dead long before. Who’s on the “Committee on Committees” this year?)
I am both an Officer of Administration and have faculty rank, and I started last year. However, I am a member of the library faculty and we are a weird hybrid.
Yes I don’t understand why the members of the library were given a pass on the faculty rank designation. Does anyone know why? People with masters being associate and full professors?
They used to be tenured, but when that stopped they didn’t change the designation. Apparently, Tomlin was finally trying to straighten that out by limiting faculty rank to tenure-track faculty, but hasn’t quite finished that yet.
i agree, seems ok this time, but In the real world, ere is how it should work, and did work under previous scy to faculty.,appeal goes out,no one responds, but then secy contacts coc head and colleges to alert them that folk are really needed. that appeal goes to heads, either by phone or email, and then heads circulate to faculty if it is actually important. 9 of 10 emails are not by this time enough folk get the idea and someone volunteers to collect the signatures. isn’t rocket science, but does tak some common sense about human nature and organizations.