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Provost Philbert talks Regents 
bylaws changes at SACUA meeting 

Official highlights art initiative, working group to adjust laws on tenured faculty dismissal 

Provost Martin Philbert 
joined the Senate Advisory 
Committee on University 
Affairs 
to 
discuss 
the 
creation of a faculty group 
to recommend amendments 
to policies on the dismissal 
of tenured faculty, as well as 
President Mark Schlissel’s 
new arts initiative. 
Philbert said the faculty 
group 
will 
review 
two 
Regents’ Bylaws, 5.09 and 
5.10, that involve dismissal 
procedures and severance 
pay. The group, comprised 
of faculty from all three 
campuses, will recommend 
revisions to the policies in 
light of recent controversies 
involving 
tenured 

professors. 
According 
to 
the University Record, the 
group 
will 
recommend 
revisions by Feb. 28, 2020. 
The University began the 
process of firing tenured 
School of Music, Theatre 
& Dance professor David 
Daniels in July. Daniels 
has been on paid leave 
since August 2018 when 
baritone 
singer 
Samuel 
Schultz 
accused 
Daniels 
and his husband of sexually 
assaulting him in 2010. In 
January, Daniels and his 
husband were charged with 
second-degree 
criminal 
sexual 
misconduct. 
The 
case is still ongoing. 
The 
Daily’s 
reporting 
revealed 
the 
University 
awarded tenure to Daniels 
in May 2018, despite the 

Office 
of 
Institutional 
Equity learning of alleged 
sexual 
misconduct 
in 
March 2018. 
Philbert emphasized the 
bylaws’ importance in terms 
of 
protecting 
academic 
freedom and employment, 
but 
said 
revisions 
are 
needed to prevent against 
faculty wrongdoing. 
“The 
Regents, 
the 
President, 
myself, 
the 
EOs, [and] all the way 
through the faculty are 
dedicated to the idea that 
the fundamental tenets of 
5.09 not be threatened,” 
Philbert 
said. 
“That 
academic freedom, freedom 
of 
thought, 
freedom 
of 
expression are enshrined 
and remain so forever ... 
We have to be very careful 
and thoughtful, and 
quickly 
amend 
the 
bylaws 
to 
protect 
tenure and to protect 
our 
faculty 
and 
to 
protect society from 
the bad behavior that 
is frequently in the 
headlines.”
The 
other 
part 
of 
the 
meeting 
involved 
Schlissel’s 
arts 
initiative. 
The 
initiative 
was 
introduced 
by 
Schlissel in the 2019 
Leadership Breakfast 
and is about bringing 
the 
humanities 
into 
STEM-related majors 
through 
means 
of 
creative and inclusive 
processes. 
Philbert reflected on 
his own experience as 
a musician and why he 
believes it is important 
to incorporate these 
ideas into STEM fields.
“One of the things 
I 
hope 
that 
we 
avoid, that President 
Schlissel 
said 
in 

his 
leadership 
breakfast 
remarks, is that we don’t 
simply view the arts as an 
instrument,” Philbert said. 
“We don’t look at the benefit 
of the arts and medicine, 
or the utility of the arts in 
becoming a better engineer, 
but that they actually take 
a life of their own. That we 
understand that the arts 
themselves have value in 
being able to explore those 
things that are difficult to 
explore. ”
SACUA Assembly Chair 
Joy 
Beatty, 
associate 
professor of management 
studies, 
introduced 
the 
first motion of creating 
an e-voting system for the 
Senate 
Assembly. 
There 
was heavy debate about 
using Qualtrics or Canvas 
to implement an e-voting 
system. The motion was 
withdrawn 
with 
the 
conclusion that they would 
use a test trial of BlueJeans, 
a 
video 
conferencing 
website, 
at 
the 
Senate 
Assembly on Oct. 21.
SACUA 
and 
Senate 
Assembly 
member 
Ivo 
Dinov, 
professor 
of 
computational 
medicine 
and 
bioinformatics, 
expressed 
his 
concern 
about using Qualtrics as the 
e-voting system.
“Qualtrics is a very silly,” 
Dinov says, “So we have 
to be careful with this … 
If we go with something 
or recently screwed up, I 
guarantee you there won’t 
be anything like this in the 
next two decades, because 
they’ll be fingers pointing 
to the failure case … And 
we should all try to weigh 
in, what are the pros and 
what are the cons because 
there will become potential 
of going to something like 
this.”

JASMIN LEE
Daily Staff Reporter 

