Dear Colleagues,
I am honored to serve as your elected Chair of the Faculty Senate and Senate Council for
the academic year 2009-2010. As your chair, I feel duty-bound to take the lead in protecting and
promoting our traditions of academic freedom and shared governance. Using the powers vested in
The Faculty Senate, the legislative arm of the Faculty Congress (our principal faculty agency
of institutional governance), and in The Senate Council, the executive arm of the Senate,
my fellow Senators and I will be working this year to expand Senate and faculty participation in
shared and open governance; improve the university promotion and tenure process; expand
faculty resources; provide guidance on student enrollment and retention; and reduce faculty salary inequities.
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of faculty participation in governance. As the
"Principles of Faculty Involvement in Institutional & Academic Unit Governance at the University of Michigan"
(Second Edition) says, "Faculty participation in governance promotes and encourages diversity of ideas,
a sense of shared responsibility, collaboration, collegiality, and institutional excellence" (p. 1).
As governing members of the University, we have a duty to participate in university-level faculty governance.
Only through such participation will our traditions of academic freedom and excellence be preserved.
Sincerely,
Gerry Moran, Chair
UM-D Faculty Senate
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Jackie Lawson Memorial Faculty Governance Award
Daniel Moerman is the 2009 recipient of the Jackie Lawson Memorial Faculty Governance Award. Like the woman for whom the award is named, Moerman, the William E. Stirton Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, College of Arts, Sciences and Letters, UM-Dearborn, taught on the UM-Dearborn\'s campus. He started his career there in 1973 and served for more than three decades.
Promotion and Tenure Ad-hoc Committee formed
Senator Strandholm (COB) appointed as Chair. Senators Poster and Lunn; Professors Wider, and Huntley appointed as members representing all units.)
Senate resumes its original schedule to meet from September through June of each academic year (October 12, 2009 minutes) |
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