Kleinmann was also disappointment that the document lacked concrete plans of action. We need some kind of strong statement to gain the support of taxpayers. Without such a statement, we will be left with divisiveness. Art History professor Walter Denny hailed the document. Research is a right that all faculty have and it should not be contingent on how much money is available in a given department.
All faculty have a right to obtain funds for research.
After the senate voted, though not unanimously, to endorse the MSP document, it discussed the document submitted by the Deans Council, consisting of the campus's nine deans. That document, which was eventually endorsed by the senate, though also not unanimously, lists seven conflicts the deans have with Scott's plan, offers alternatives to the plan that would alleviate those conflicts, and proposes its own list of major items to be built into the budget by the year 2000. The main conflict, says the document, is that Academic Affairs will be hard-pressed to reallocate 1 percent of its budget for the next four years, as Scott proposes. There is no 'fat' left in the Academic Affairs budget. If, in fact, Academic Affairs is forced to reallocate, deans want the colleges, schools and departments to have control over reinvesting the reallocated funds.