[Vision2020] Maki Keeping Salary???

[Nick Gier]

Greetings:

A tenured professor can be removed from his job only in cases of 
professional incompetence, a felony conviction, and moral turpitude 
(I love that word!).  I think there is sufficient evidence of moral 
failing for Professor Maki to sit before his peers and have a full 
tenure review.

Back in the 1970s, we objected to a policy that required that every 
tenured professor be reviewed automatically every five years.  (This 
essentially made our contracts five-year renewable ones.) We went to 
court on this with the Homer Ferguson case and now, primarily because 
of our efforts, tenure review is called only when a faculty member, a 
department chair, or upper administrator requests it.

Before I leave for my rafting trip, I'm going to e-mail Tim White and 
request that Maki be reviewed.  I will also remind some of my friends 
in electrical engineering that anyone of them can also trigger a review.

If Maki were a tenured philosophy professor, brining in zero research 
funds, I would bet you that he would already be in the dock and on 
his way out in no time.

Nick Gier, President, IFT Higher Education Council

At 12:22 PM 6/24/2007, you wrote:
>UI $$$ => Maki $$$ via grants, fees => UI $$$  ad nauseum
>
>W.
>
>PS:  Does anyone know what time the Weitz suit hearing is tomorrow?
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Saundra Lund" <sslund at roadrunner.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:47 PM
>Subject: [Vision2020] Maki Keeping Salary???
>
>
> > Visionaires:
> >
> > I know we've got some folks here who far better understand the
> > administrative workings of the UI than I do.  I've been following the
> > CAMBR/Maki debacle, and I'm very confused by the following:
> >
> > "The university says Gary Maki was removed Friday as director of the
> > university's Center for Advanced Microelectronics and Biomolecular
> > Research.
> > Maki will retain his $183,000 annual salary and remain a part of the
> > center's staff."
> > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19390646/
> >
> > I just don't get it:  if the evidence of his gross misconduct & unethical
> > behavior is sufficient for the UI to remove him as CAMBR director, then
> > why
> > does he get to keep *any* position at CAMBR, and why on earth does he get
> > to
> > keep his hefty salary for filling a lesser position?
> >
> > I would appreciate it if anyone can shed any honest light on this -- it is
> > just mind-boggling to me, and I think it makes the UI look really bad.
> >
> >
> >
> > Saundra Lund
> > Moscow, ID
> >
> > The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> > nothing.
> > - Edmund Burke
> >
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> > plus
> > 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce
> > outside
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> >
> >
> >
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