Showing posts with label senate meetings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label senate meetings. Show all posts
Thursday, August 12, 2021

The COVID Wars Continue at Penn State--A Tale of Two Senate Resolutions. . . and the Administration's Counternarrative

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    I have been following the sadly patched up disaster that has been the lurching progress toward what passes for policy at Penn State rela...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

The Transfiguration of University Faculty Senates in the Shadow of Pandemic

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    Pix: Catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and Peter on the Via Labicana . University Faculty Senates in the United States continue to struggle...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Faculty Complicity in Undermining Shared Governance--A Hypothetical For a Large Public University

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) Faculty governance depends, in large part, on the willingness of administration and faculty to bear the...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Power and Control Through the Prism of Benefits -- Between Administration and Faculty Senates Shared Governance When Convenient

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) The relationship between the institutional voice of a faculty, usually organized, as it is at Penns...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

The Social Dimension of the Eugenics of Employee Benefits--The View From Penn State

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) I have been considering the move by universities to embrace cultures of eugenics through their ben...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Crafting a Policy for Open Access to Scholarly Publications From the Penn State University Faculty Senate

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) Open access has become an important issue for the dissemination of knowledge.  I have written abou...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

What Should be the Faculty Role in the Development of Administrative Regulation at the University--Penn State's Senate Debates the Issue

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) In September 2012, I noted a substantial issue of transparency at large universities. Focusing on the...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Indulging the Politics of Age in University Benefits--The Example of Move to Strip Older Family Members of Education Benefits

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Universities sometimes provide a window onto the darker natures of societal expectations and beliefs.  And there is nothing like the drumbea...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Resolution to Honor the Late Penn State Vice Provost W. Terrell Jones

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(Terrell Jones) It is with great sorrow that I report the recent passing of Terrell Jones, whose presence we will miss greatly h...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Diversity in Silence--The Joint Diversity Task Force Report at Penn State University Becomes Less Visible

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Penn State University, like many other similarly situated institutions of post secondary education, has been struggling with the very hard ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Implementing the Affordable Care Act at Penn State, Employer Responsibility and the Part Time Employee; The AAUP Speaks, the IRS Regulations Are Released

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ― also known as the Affordable CareAct or A...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Penn State University Faculty Senate Chair Censured by the Faculty Senate

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  (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) I have been writing about the consequences of the wellness wars at Penn State.  ( Penn State...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Transparency in Senate Elections--Reform From the Bottom Up

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Faculty Senate elections at Penn State have traditionally been secret affairs.  The numbers are tabulated and the results announced with no...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Implementing the Affordable Care Act at Penn State--Employer Responsibility Provisions and the Part Time Employee

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  (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ― also known as the Affo...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

And the Sponsors of the Call for the Special Senate Meeting Respond Back--A Continuing Wellness and Shared Governance Dialogue

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I have recently posted the University Administration's first public response to the criticisms of the Wellness Program that culminated ...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Statement and White Paper From Penn State Faculty--"Assessing the Evidence for Penn State University’s “Take Care of Your Health” Benefits Program"

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  (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) In the run up to the September 10, 2013 University Faculty Senate meeting to be held on the ...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

The Wellness Wars at Penn State--Is the Institutional Faculty Splintering?

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I have been following the quite heated controversy over Penn State's new wellness program.  Like the Sandusky scandal of 2011, the scan...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Remarks of the Senate Chair Made at the April 23, 2013 Meeting of the Penn State Faculty Senate

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The Penn State University Faculty Senate held its first meeting of this academic year on Tuesday April 23, 2013 (e.g. Faculty Senate April ...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

Upcoming Senate Forensic Session--"Search for the Next University President--Senate Input"

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I am happy to announce that at the last Senate Council meeting there was a consensus for formal Senate participation in the recent efforts ...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Statement of Senate Chair Made at the March 12, 2013 Penn State University Faculty Senate Meeting: Restructuring the Way We Operate

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The Penn State University Faculty Senate held its fourth meeting of this academic year on Tuesday January 29, 2013 (e.g. Faculty Senate Mar...