Administrative kudos
Some recognition is due several administrators at the University of South Florida for recent actions or consistency:
- A dean who worked to help faculty protect the tenure process in a college
- A dean and associate dean who helped find a grant-funded position for a professional employee who otherwise would have been laid off
- An administrator who took time to address the personal needs of individual faculty in a unique crisis
- A chair/director who protected tenure-track faculty research time in an emergency schedule shuffle
- Lakeland-campus academic administrators, who have continued to teach regularly-scheduled courses in their home departments.
The individuals in the first four cases are not named in part to protect confidentiality and in part to recognize that there are plenty of correct decisions made quietly by faculty committees and administrators. A faculty union’s job is to protect due process and faculty interests, and the chapter will point out where its perspective differs from that of the administration or BOT, but there are also plenty of correct decisions made.
