Sentences with phrase «faculty senate»

«As a member of the postdoctoral association at Johns Hopkins, one of the benefits I got was the ability to sit in on faculty senate meetings and hear about strategic plans for the coming years,» she says.

* Also last month, Northeastern University's faculty senate rejected a revision of the Northeastern faculty handbook that would have subjected tenured professors to a process of post-tenure review.

Update: Since UW - Madison's faculty senate passed its no - confidence vote last week, campus leaders at UW - Milwaukee, UW - River Falls and UW - La Crosse have approved similar measures of their own.

Father Richard McBrien, who was for many years chairman of theology at Notre Dame and is now head of the faculty senate, is the sworn enemy of Hauerwas, whom he accuses, as he accuses Baxter, of being «sectarian.»

The theology faculty refused him an appointment to the department, the president of the university appointed him anyway, and the faculty senate then censured the president.

Asked if the body she chairs had been privy to any conversations between the governor's staff and CUNY administrators, Conway, the chair of the faculty senate, said it had not, but added that «it isn't in our interest to confront the governor.»

«We had an endorsement from the faculty senate, from the student assembly, from a number of economic organizations from some, but not all, of labor.

On many campuses, they have no guarantee of academic freedom and no vote in the faculty senate.

When it came to faculty governance, doctoral institutions gave non-tenure-track faculty members the least opportunity to participate — 50 per cent allowed it at the department level, only 10 per cent at the level of the faculty senate.

Bienenstock led a campaign with Stanford's faculty senate and university trustees to eliminate a legal limit on the number of women students at the university, as part of efforts to promote diversity in the STEM workforce and other areas of public and professional life.

In place of the rejected proposal, the faculty senate voted to create a committee to look into nonpunitive approaches to «post-tenure faculty development.»

Based upon a comprehensive academic program review, a faculty senate recommendation that the Marine Science program be designated a center of excellence was approved by the administration in 2002.

In a much - cited U.S. Supreme Court case, faculty members at Yeshiva University were denied bargaining rights because their faculty senate and its committees made substantive university decisions.

Michael Stoune, a professor of music at Texas Tech who is president of the faculty senate, said Lauro Cavazos is also likely to continue Secretary of Education William J. Bennett's emphasis on «the quality of education and the increasing need for institutions to take responsibility for their own work.»

She serves on the faculty senate of Murray State University.