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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