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Date: Jan 26, 2006

Stealth Actions

Date: Jan 26, 2006

Stealth raises leaps to mind.

Date: Jan 27, 2006

Welcome to the "new" Under the Radar -- I used that nom de board a few years ago, when the first of SFT's "stealthy actions" got me to make my own quiet ("under the radar") job search.

Actions:

Hiring Jack Hanbury to "monitor" Faculty Senate actions; getting Hanbury to unilaterally change the Faculty Handbook so previous standards for annual evaluations, promotion and tenure decisions were discarded; instituting the "on-line" FAR to discount anything except "measurable" items, thus devaluing excellence in teaching and long research activities before any publications; putting "administrative holds" on promotion and tenure decisions that had already been approved for submission to IHL; mid-year "stealth merit" raises to chosen individuals; hiring candidates for unannounced and unadvertised positions in the administration.

Date: Jan 27, 2006

Trying to by-pass faculty input into a new post-tenure review policy by going directly to the IHL with a new policy with new metrics w/out informing Senate or AAUP officers. This was last spring, I believe.

Similarly, putting forward a flawed drug and alcohol policy--which had also been crafted by Jack Hansbury, right?--without convening or consulting a university committee. The Thames policy made no provision for treatment or rehabilitation of on-the-job substance abusers, was loaded with vague language about who and what counted as drugged or drunk and, thus, was not in compliance with federal standards for drug and alcohol policies. There were particularly draconian penalties for failure to comply with these standards.

Date: Jan 27, 2006

The infamous plan to convert the new Gulf Park library into a conference center for a non-existant executive MBA program. No proposal for the conversion was presented to Academic Council, Graduate Council or the necessary committees in the CoB, and yet an unspecified amount of money had been spent on having a detailed plan drawn up by an architectural and planning firm by the time the plan was outed and, apparently, discarded.

Date: Jan 27, 2006

Administrators using university social functions to abet their trysts.

Date: Jan 27, 2006

Monitoring the email of the president of the faculty senate and the editor of the Student Prinz that we know of--and countless others we don't know about. Asking the techies to enter offices in the dark of night and break into faculty computers.

Date: Jan 27, 2006

already gone wrote:

Welcome to the "new" Under the Radar -- I used that nom de board a few years ago, when the first of SFT's "stealthy actions" got me to make my own quiet ("under the radar") job search.
Actions:
Hiring Jack Hanbury to "monitor" Faculty Senate actions; getting Hanbury to unilaterally change the Faculty Handbook so previous standards for annual evaluations, promotion and tenure decisions were discarded; instituting the "on-line" FAR to discount anything except "measurable" items, thus devaluing excellence in teaching and long research activities before any publications; putting "administrative holds" on promotion and tenure decisions that had already been approved for submission to IHL; mid-year "stealth merit" raises to chosen individuals; hiring candidates for unannounced and unadvertised positions in the administration.

Sorry about the nom theft. Please don't sue or anything like that. It was very innocent.

Date: Jan 27, 2006

all of the people he has directly and indirectly gotten rid of from the University.

Date: Jan 28, 2006

Sultan Shelby and his janissaries have no need for " shared governance." As an outside observer this is so obvious.The faculty has no real power. Their only recourse is to bitch and moan. Most of the posts on this topic are so oblivious to reality.