2008 Woodie Awards
Richmond responds to faculty complaints, budget
Karla Rivas
Issue date: 3/5/08 Section: The Future of Humboldt State
The Bill of Particulars, created by the Academic Senate to address faculty concerns, is not specific to any particular faculty complaint. The bill was passed at the last Senate meeting, and the president has until May 11 to sit down and talk with faculty about its content.
President Rollin Richmond sat down to discuss the disputes surrounding the Bill of Particulars, the lack of communication with the University Budget Committee (UBC), the mishandling of money in athletics, the mistreatment of faculty and the contempt for student voices.
The original draft of the Bill of Particulars submitted to the Executive Committee was deemed too accusatory and therefore was modified before the last senate meeting.
"I found the Bill of Particulars a little hard in the sense that I think this is a hard time for the university," Richmond said. "The fact that we've been struggling in the years that I've been here with budget reductions from the state...I think the campus as a whole needs to, as much as possible, work together to solve these problems."
Psychology professor Lou Ann Wieand said she feels the president is not working together with the campus to solve the budget crisis.
Wieand was general faculty president from 2003 - 2006, during which she observed and interacted with the president. She was also appointed on the University Budget Committee (UBC) last spring. Now that she is no longer holding these positions, she can comment from a retrospective position.
In September 2006, Wieand helped draft a petition signed by several full professors and read it to the Senate.
"We reiterated our expectations that the president would collaborate and work with us in a collegial manner," she said. "We expected that he would not always agree with us, but that he would explain when his decisions differed from us."
Wieand, among others, hoped that decisions would be negotiable and that there would be open dialogue and communication about matters that were considered important. She said that there had been many instances when the president made decisions with no explanation or negotiation.
President Rollin Richmond sat down to discuss the disputes surrounding the Bill of Particulars, the lack of communication with the University Budget Committee (UBC), the mishandling of money in athletics, the mistreatment of faculty and the contempt for student voices.
The original draft of the Bill of Particulars submitted to the Executive Committee was deemed too accusatory and therefore was modified before the last senate meeting.
"I found the Bill of Particulars a little hard in the sense that I think this is a hard time for the university," Richmond said. "The fact that we've been struggling in the years that I've been here with budget reductions from the state...I think the campus as a whole needs to, as much as possible, work together to solve these problems."
Psychology professor Lou Ann Wieand said she feels the president is not working together with the campus to solve the budget crisis.
Wieand was general faculty president from 2003 - 2006, during which she observed and interacted with the president. She was also appointed on the University Budget Committee (UBC) last spring. Now that she is no longer holding these positions, she can comment from a retrospective position.
In September 2006, Wieand helped draft a petition signed by several full professors and read it to the Senate.
"We reiterated our expectations that the president would collaborate and work with us in a collegial manner," she said. "We expected that he would not always agree with us, but that he would explain when his decisions differed from us."
Wieand, among others, hoped that decisions would be negotiable and that there would be open dialogue and communication about matters that were considered important. She said that there had been many instances when the president made decisions with no explanation or negotiation.
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