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Based on your professional and academic judgment as a faculty member, what percentage of a semester would need to be completed in order to meet academic objectives and protect the college’s academic mission in the event of an emergency situation that shut
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- The College Faculty Senate meets on the first Thursday of each month September through May at 2:00 p.m. Meeting locations rotate alphabetically, starting in September and February with the Chesapeake campus. There are no January meetings. Summer meetings will be held on an as-needed basis.
- Sept. 4, 2008 Chesapeake
- Oct. 2, 2008 Norfolk
- Nov. 6 , 2008 Portsmouth
- Dec. 4, 2008 Virginia Beach
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- Mar. 5, 2008 Norfolk
- Apr. 2, 2008 Portsmouth
8 comments:
Term limits undermine the value of experience, and run entirely couunter to a democratic process of having the consituents choose their representatives. But that said, unlimited terms also tend to create institutional dead wood: fewer fresh ideas, insights, etc. Perhaps a better solution would be to have longer terms and to institute a rolling pattern of elections so that some more experienced people are joined by newer people.
As the cliche says: Every office earned through a vote has term limits; they're called elections. If you don't like what your elected official is doing, vote the person out or run yourself. "Institutional dead wood" stems from apathy much more than it stems from the number of terms possible.
Term limits could be a liability when there are not enough interested faculty to replace "expired" senators. That apathy is certainly a problem we ought to tackle. Until we do, term limits might not be workable. If we make a rule that we can't consistently enforce, it creates an opening for everyone to ignore the rule.
expired faculty :)
One of the things that breeds that apathy though is the impression that the senate has too many people who have been there so long that they are in some sense entitled to those spots. It is probalby that sense of entitlement, more than mere duration, that creates the impression of "dead wood."
I don't think any senator is entitled to a spot. In fact, Chesapeake Faculty Senate, will have complete turn over between the 2005-2006 and 2009-2020 academic years. Each campus is supposed to send out calls for senators, get nominations, and hold elections. In these elections, faculty can "vote off" senators they see as dead wood or as having ideas opposite of their own. In essence, it's not the dead wood that creates the impression of entitlement; it's the faculty who aren't voting them off who are allowing that picture to emerge.
But is every campus having elections???? Me thinks not.
Yes for limits - even the U.S. has limits (at least for some). The problem is more than entitlement or dead wood.
If you don't elect the person currently serving as a Senator - YOU might have to stand up! Yikes! Which is kind of funny. Evaluations 'require' participation in committees/governance - but you don't see ALOT of full-time faculty on any committee/governance.
SO, how are they getting good evaluations?
The system is broke! Deans are afraid to enforce evaluations (grievable by the faculty), faculty don't want to serve (unless they have some hot issues, or rather let the 'vocal' person do it), and even "been there, done that, let the newbe have their turn".
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