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NEWS
SACUA
discusses
yearlong
schedule
with new
members
Mental health, faculty-
administration
cooperation dominant
issues
By LYDIA MURRAY
Summer Managing News Editor
The Senate Advisory Committee
on
University
Affairs
hosted
its first meeting under the new
leadership
of
Chair
William
Schultz, professor of mechanical
engineering, naval architecture
and marine engineering. During
the meeting, new members were
introduced, and the committee
discussed topics for the upcoming
year’s agenda, including mental
health on campus.
New
members
to
SACUA
include Michael Atzmon, professor
of
nuclear
engineering
and
radiological sciences; Radiology
Prof. Ruth Carlos; and Social Work
Prof. Robert Ortega.
Atzmon
began
working
in
faculty governance last fall through
the Senate Assembly. He said he
aims to communicate the positions
of the faculty to the administration
during his tenure on SACUA.
“One of the things I care about
most is cases where administrative
leaders forget what it is like to be in
the trenches,” Atzmon said. “Our
role is to remind them of what our
values are.”
Carlos said she wants to increase
the
interaction
between
the
Medical School and the rest of the
campus community.
“The Medical School, because
of its size and connection with the
hospital, sometimes overlooks,
in my opinion, its obligation to
the campus at large,” she said.
“I’d like to see more conversation
between the two.”
Ortega was not present at the
meeting.
During the meeting, Schultz
provided a tentative agenda for
the year, including the Office of
Institutional Equity appeals —
which
handles
discrimination
and harassment complaints —,
the tenure process — which
has been a subjet of debate in
previousmeetings
—
and
the
Standard Practice Guide, which
is a set of policies made by the
University of Michigan for faculty
to follow. Schultz then opened
up discussion for members to
propose additional topics.
Former SACUA Chair Silke-
Maria Weineck, chair of the
department
of
comparative
literature and a German studies
professor, suggested the addition
of mental health of both students
and faculty to the list.
She said mental health disorders
should be treated with the same
level of seriousness as other
physical medical conditions.
“Depression and anxiety are
illnesses,” Weineck said. “They
should be treated like cancer … I
don’t think they should be demoted
to general unwellness.”
Students have recently been
calling for improved mental health
services
on
campus
through
discussions with the Board of
Regents and events aimed at raising
awareness for the issue.
Pharmacy Prof. David Smith
raised concern over the overlap
between faculty mental health
and the Fitness for Duty policy,
which ensures faculty members
are able to perform the duties of
their positions as part of the SPG.
He said he wanted to make sure no
one is unfairly laid off because of
this clause.
“(I want) to make sure that
nobody who suffers from this kind
of illness is going to be removed
because of Fitness of Duty,” he said.
“It’s not going to be abused.”
Carlos suggested adding other
staff members to the discussion
to address the mental health of
residents in the Medical School.
The members also discussed
upcoming guest speakers, including
Central
Student
Government
president David Schafer and vice
President micah Griggs, LSA rising
seniors, who plan to meet with
SACUA later in May.
ANDREW RABAH/Daily
SACUA chair Bill Schultz at SACUA meeting at Fletcher Administration building on Monday.