The body weighed in Thursday on a proposed academic realignment plan that would cut seventeen academic majors and thirty eight faculty positions.
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The University of Evansville faculty senate has given a vote of no confidence for the school’s proposed academic realignment plan.
In a release Thursday afternoon from the UE chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the group reported that the school’s faculty senate made the move because of what they said was a lack of faculty involvement in the draft realignment plan. Associate professor of history Daniel Byrne is secretary-treasurer of the local AAUP chapter.
Byrne said, “We are rejecting the plan itself. We think it’s fundamentally flawed. Also, the process with which it was created, which of course kept the faculty out and effectively destroyed shared governance at the University of Evansville.”
The faculty senate proposed a more formal process that they say follows the university’s written policies on any changes in curriculum.
UE President Christopher Pietruszkiewicz has said he wants the academic realignment plan complete by the end of January so faculty can be notified if their positions are terminated.
