> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:23:47 -0500 Jeff Tanner wrote: > > Israel, > Sounds like your faculty needs to establish a Faculty Senate to be able to enact policies that can weather administrative changes. We have one. It's dysfunctional. Seems that you can't have an effective Faculty senate in re: policies when the faculty themselves are the biggest violators. When we did have some policies in place (theoretically at least) there was no mechanism for enforcing them. The biggest problem is that nobody is in charge of managing the concert hall. Nominally it is under the jurisdiction of the Dean's office, but in practice access is uncontrolled. And all the full-time faculty have keys to it (it is on the same low-security key that opens classrooms - and nobody ever locks anything after they are done). And the CATS staff (Creative arts Technical Services) who actually maintain the hall will open the hall and any piano (they are padlocked) for any faculty member who requests access if nothing else is scheduled (and piano service time is defined - at least in the faculty's mind - as "nothing is scheduled", even though it is listed as a class). The CATS do try to follow my guidelines as to piano use - but they won't fight real hard if someone gets insistent... > And, I'd say under the circumstances that it's a good thing you're a union worker. > Tanner > It has been, so far. But we now have a new Dean who just summarily fired an administrator in apparent violation of lots of union contract provisions. A grievance has been filed. So until this entire saga plays out, I am going to keep a very low profile - and pianos be damned. So far this Dean has been very responsive to our concerns about the pianos (he is a theater person - not a musician - and therefore tends to respect technicians of all stripes a lot more than musicians do. But then when you are on the theater stage, your life and health - and the success of the show - depend on those stage techs...) In any case, I'm not taking any chances... Israel Stein
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