THE SUPER CAPE IS OUT OF THE CLOSET!!!!
When last we left, our hero was battling the forces of evil in the faculty Senate...
Will he succeed and close them down?
Perp walk those perpetrators of pure fact off campus?
...STAY TUNED. SAME BAT TIME SAME BAT STATION...
Faculty Senate meets tomorrow at 12.30 in Library-c'mon down and see if the Chief is there to hang faculty in chains!
In the meantime read below the Caped Crusader's memo.
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: CSU Faculty
FROM: Wayne D. Watson
DATE: March 4, 2014
RE: For Your Information: Faculty Senate Constitution Update
This memo is to update you on the status of amendments to the Faculty Senate Constitution. On February 24, 2014, the Faculty Senate communicated to University administration that an election was recently held to ratify amendments made to its Constitution in September 2011.
Subsequent to the election, the administration received correspondence from the Chairman of the Faculty Senate, Dr. Phillip Beverly, indicating that amendments to the Constitution had been approved by 99 % of the faculty. The University has since received various complaints from eligible faculty indicating that they neither received notice of the election nor cast their ballots.
On February 25, 2014, in an attempt to verify that a proper election was held and that the appropriate notices were sent, the University sent correspondence to the Chair of the Faculty Senate requesting the following information:
1. Date(s) of the election(s)
2. A description of how the election was conducted
3. Originals of all ballots cast (or an opportunity to view these documents)
4. List of persons responsible for counting the ballots
5. A copy of the original Constitution with the amendments highlighted as tracked changes
6. Method and verification of determining which faculty were eligible to vote.
A copy of the response to this request, which was submitted by the Chair of the Faculty Senate on February 27, 2014, is attached for your information. A copy of a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request sent by University General Counsel to the Chair of the Faculty Senate is also attached.
We will continue to keep all members of the CSU faculty informed of developments relative to this matter.
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Hmmm. Watson writes "the administration received correspondence from the Chairman of the Faculty Senate, Dr. Phillip Beverly, indicating that amendments to the Constitution had been approved by 99 % of the faculty."
ReplyDeleteBut the blog post called "Actual Vote in Recent Balloting," posted on February 26, shows the actual count of votes for and against each amendment, as well as the percentage of yes and no responses OF THOSE WHO VOTED. Obviously, 99 people (the total of the votes in each case) does not represent the entire eligible faculty.
I guess the administration is no better at math than it is at citing sources.
Academics is not a strong suit for them! Easy to fix, though. We have excellent faculty who teach both basic statistics and composition. Most of my students can do both.
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