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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