All initiatives should come to existing faculty committees and the committees should be involved from the beginning. The group urges people to come to the Executive Committee with issues. The group felt that the governance approach of the university is a top down administration. New administration is setting up task forces and is duplicating efforts. The group stated that administration sends the message that faculty are not important.
Faculty now have more responsibilities than before and are being stretched too thin.
They felt that a good definition of shared governance was needed and asked what areas should administration take jointly and what areas should faculty legitimately take. The group felt that administration should involve faculty at all levels to inform meaningful input and that administration should act upon that input. There should be a tenure vote of administration candidates and that there should be a process of faculty reviewing candidates for administrative positions. They asked if there was a faculty representative on the Board of Regents. Ford replied that they had asked many times but they were turned down each time.