[Vision2020] UI to Furlough Employees

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From: Gier, Nicholas <NGIER at uidaho.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 12:02 PM
To: Art Deco <deco at moscow.com>; Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>; UI President <president at uidaho.edu>; Tom Trail <Ttrail at house.idaho.gov>; Shirley Ringo <SRingo at house.idaho.gov>; Gary Schroeder <GSCHROED at senate.idaho.gov>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] UI to Furlough Employees

Hi Wayne:
 
 I don't see how eliminating tenure will save the UI any money.  It would, I submit, cause the UI a lot of grief, least of all in recruitment of new faculty members.  You think that you had some bad teachers; just wait until you see the applicants who send their credentials to institutions that don't have tenure.
 
 UI tenured faculty members can be terminated for professional incompetence. A post-tenure review process has been in place for over 30 years. I remember a physics professor who was judged incompetent by a post-tenure review panel, but the UI administration refused to follow through on the faculty recommendation.
 
 More recently faculty in the College of Engineering asked the Provost to set up a tenure review committee for Gary Maki at the research institute in Post Falls.  The Provost refused, and recently the UI was terribly embarrassed by the legal settlement for the two people Maki had harassed.
 
 The original post-tenure review policy contained provisions by which faculty members, department chairs, and deans could initiate the procedures.  Now only the Provost can do so, and I don't think this administration has done its job to police tenure.  Faculty go through a thorough third year review in their departments and another thorough review at 5 years.  After that their credentials are examined by two college committees where the dean and finally the provost can turn down faculty recommendations.
 
 With regard to a simple due process system, my 35-year experience handling faculty grievances on s

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