The University of Michigan’s Senate 

Advisory Committee on University 

Affairs met Monday at the Fleming 

Administration Building to discuss 

including 
faculty 
governance 
in 

University decisions and management of 

University finances.

SACUA chair Neil Marsh, professor 

of chemistry, began the meeting by 

calling for an approval of the day’s 

agenda as well as the agenda for the 

Senate Assembly meeting on March 18. 

While sharing general announcements, 

Marsh detailed the meeting that took 

place over spring break between himself; 

SACUA Vice Chair Joy Beatty, associate 

professor of management studies; and 

University President Mark Schlissel.

“We conveyed (SACUA’s) concerns 

over the non-participation of faculty 

governance,” Marsh said. “He was 

receptive to that and said that he would 

communicate with his executive officers 

to emphasize the fact that SACUA 

faculty government should be consulted 

more often.”

The 
committee 
subsequently 

considered how to modify a survey to be 

presented to student and faculty. Keith 

Riles, professor of physics and chair of 

the Senate Assembly’s Administration 

Evaluation Committee came to the 

meeting to head the discussion of how to 

best design the survey. Riles mentioned 

how the survey would help monitor 

faculty perception of administrative 

functions within the University Library, 

the Division of Public Safety and Security 

and Canvas among other components. 

Some questions centered on changes in 

the University’s Standard Practice Guide 

dictating policy, but several others asked 

about Senate Assembly resolutions that 

had already passed, which previous 

surveys usually did not ask about.

SACUA member Michael Atzmon, 

professor of nuclear engineering and 

radiological sciences, suggested the 

survey should ask about SPG revisions 

relating to faculty-student relationships. 

The new guidelines ban relationships 

between students and faculty. Several 

members of SACUA expressed concern 

regarding the new policy. 

Concerns 
come 
from 
SMTD 

professor David Daniels arrest earlier 

this year on charges of sexual assault 

and accusations from a SMTD graduate 

student for drugging and assaulting him. 

Beatty described a meeting she had 

with Sally Churchill, vice president and 

secretary of the University, about the 

urgency of the survey.

“Sally Churchill made it extremely 

clear, as has President Schlissel and 

Provost Philbert, that the regents 

wanted (the revisions) in yesterday, and 

they didn’t particularly care if there was 

time for debate, review, faculty input, as 

partly because of issues in the medical 

area and SMTD (School of Music, 

Theatre & Dance) when they decided 

that this was sort of non-negotiable,” 

Beatty said.

Beatty afterward noted that the 

University should have followed “the 

proper process” by consulting faculty 

when they made the decision to enact 

the new relationship policy. Atzmon 

voiced concerns with the new policy 

and its broad definitions of covered and 

romantic relationships.

SACUA member Deirdre Spencer, 

librarian for history of art, described 

her conversations with a civil rights 

committee, noting how there was 

concern with the broad definitions’ 

restrictions 
on 
non-academic 

communications between faculty and 

staff.

“You can’t even say, ‘Go Blue,’” 

Spencer said.

Riles noted how the Dearborn 

campus was also working on a faculty 

survey that would differ from the 

survey for the Ann Arbor and Flint 

campuses. As this is the first year 

Dearborn is using a faculty survey, 

the campus will provide their own 

questions for the survey.

After discussing changes to the 

survey, SACUA member Sarah Lippert, 

associate professor of art history, 

presented the Tri-Campus Committee 

resolution on the process of renewing 

administrators. She noted that one of 

the Tri-Campus Committee members 

had a dean on their campus who was 

approved for renewal without consulting 

faculty government.

“It’s now become such a snowball 

of a problem that we’re actually having 

to redo this person’s contract and redo 

the whole faculty consultation part a 

year after,” Lippert said. “We would 

like to see some minimum standards 

of faculty consultation, at the very least 

anonymous consultation of the faculty.” 

When Marsh noted how the Ann 

Arbor campus had an official from 

University Provost Martin Philbert’s 

office responsible for communicating 

with 
faculty 
in 
re-appointing 

administrators, Lippert replied the 

Dearborn and Flint campuses should 

have the same minimum consultation 

that is present at the Ann Arbor campus.

The 
committee 
subsequently 

hosted Kevin Hegarty, the University’s 

executive vice president and chief 

financial officer, to discuss financial 

operations at the University. After 

holding several high-level corporate 

positions, Hegarty was hired as the vice 

president and chief financial officer of 

the University of Texas at Austin, his 

alma mater. He worked there from 2001 

to 2015 until he was hired for his current 

position at the University of Michigan. 

Hegarty described how his prior 

experience informed his position in 

managing financial operations of the 

University.

“I was adamant when I came to the 

University of Texas — just as when I 

came to the University of Michigan — 

that I didn’t want to repeat what I saw in 

corporate. It’s also one of the reasons that 

I didn’t want to (go) back to corporate,” 

Hegarty said. “That was a culture that 

was really driven from the top down,” he 

said. “CEO says do it, so you do it, and you 

just get it done … I wanted to come here 

and connect people to a mission, to what 

this place really is all about.” 

After opening up for questions, 

Lippert and Beatty requested greater 

accountability 
on 
management 
of 

finances, 
especially 
for 
Flint 
and 

Dearborn campuses. There was also 

a focus on getting faculty government 

more involved in financial operations.

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