The main point I want to make about this is that the materials in the office, the materials from the files, are all packed in boxes. They are no longer in files. They are not accessible to the staff of the office in any way that could reasonably be viewed as convenient. They really are not in a position to do much research in the various documents at this point in time. I think they are able to do things if it's really crucial that it be done, but in general if you could hold off for a few weeks, and it may be till the end of the semester actually, for things that aren't quite so pressing.
Second announcement has to do with a project that focuses on the faculty grievance procedures.
The Agenda Committee is aware of several concerns that the AAUP Executive Committee has expressed about matters in the grievance process. The Agenda Committee has also met with the Grievance Committee on a couple of occasions now to talk about some concerns that they have in terms of how our procedures are working. And the Grievance Committee has sent to the Agenda Committee a document which outlines some steps that they think would be reasonable to reconsider or to look at in order to improve the way this grievance process works. This will, no doubt, be based primarily in the Faculty Affairs Committee. But it is my wish anyway to have as broad a constituency involved in this as would be interested in participating.