H.A.--Senate shows support for Coast faculty - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: May 6, 2006

H.A.--Senate shows support for Coast faculty

Date: May 6, 2006

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"The Senate conducted several pieces of other business at the penultimate meeting of the academic year.

As previously discussed, senators unanimously passed a resolution urging the state College Board to monitor the activities of the Thames administration before a new president is installed in May 2007, citing concerns that new initiatives could do long-term damage to the university and could hurt the presidential search process.

Senators unanimously commended and endorsed a pair of resolutions passed by the council of department chairs, urging full transparency in the awarding of merit-based faculty pay raises and the acceptance of recommendations from deans and chairs regarding those raises.

Senators unanimously endorsed the Faculty Handbook's criteria for awarding emeritus status to retiring professors against a version listed on Provost Jay Grimes' Web site. Grimes' version required faculty to hold the rank of full professor before being considered."