F. Tenure ineligible faculty . The status of lecturers, clinical professors, etc. is under discussion by the UFC and campus wide information is being gathered. A policy may be forthcoming in March-April. Committee Reports A. Resolution on the budget for the Social Work program . The basic issue is to make sure that faculty are actively involved in future budgetary issues, that it is the role, responsibility, and right of the faculty to be involved, and that this should be recognized and honored not just in context of the social work program, but as a whole.
Resolution seems weak and focuses on the wrong thing.
Reallocations seem to go from undergraduate programs to graduate programs and this inversion of the educational pyramid is dangerous and disconcerting. Faculty should balance academics not budgets. This is really an outgrowth of a 1996 Survey and Curriculum Committee action and does focus on social work. We should look to the future and anticipate future demand, not lock ourselves into being an undergraduate university only. We can't just protect the status quo.