FACULTY GOVERNANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION:

A Conference Exploring the Roles and Responsibilities of Faculty

Friday, October 24, 2008

University of Mary Washington

College of Graduate and Professional Studies

University Hall

 

Schedule of Events
Morning Session
Registration and Refreshments			8 A.M.
Welcome: Judy G. Hample, President, University of Mary Washington			9 A.M.
Opening Plenary: Kenneth Andersen, Professor of Communication Emeritus, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign			9:15-10:15 A.M.
Break			10:15-10:30 A.M.
Panel: Faculty Governance and Institutions of Higher Education			10:30-NOON
	Respondent: James Lollar, Radford University
	“Faculty Governance and Faculty Relationship with University Administrators and Governing Bodies”
		Rutledge M. Dennis, George Mason University Esther N. Elstun, Professor Emerita, George Mason University David Kuebrick, George Mason University Joseph Scimecca, George Mason University Richard Coffinberger, George Mason University
	“Shared Governance at a Rapidly Growing Two-Year, Multi-Campus Community College”
		Kimberly Bovee, Tidewater Community College Michael Bryan, Tidewater Community College Maureen Cahill, Tidewater Community College Christopher Cartwright, Tidewater Community College Leann Tomesch, Tidewater Community College Wendy Webb, Tidewater Community College
Noon Session
Luncheon Plenary: Daniel J. LaVista, Executive Director of SCHEV			Noon-1 P.M.
Afternoon Session
Panel: Two Case Studies of Faculty Governance			1:00-2:30 P.M.
	Respondent: Brian Turner, Randolph-Macon College
	“A History of Faculty Governance at UMW: A Panel of Faculty Senate Presidents”
		Craig Vasey, University of Mary Washington, CAS Ernest Ackermann, University of Mary Washington, CAS Stephen Fuller, University of Mary Washington, CAS Denis Nissim-Sabat, University of Mary Washington, CAS Mary Rigsby, University of Mary Washington, CAS F. Douglas Holcombe, University of Mary Washington, CGPS
	“’One More River to Cross’: The Making of the Working Group on University Governance's Report at Norfolk State”
		Charles Ford, Norfolk State University Suely Black, Norfolk State University Hailu Abatena, Norfolk State University Bidhu Mohanty, Norfolk State University Wold Zemedkun, Norfolk State University
Break			2:30-2:45 P.M.
Panel: Who are the Stakeholders?			2:45-4:15 P.M.
	Respondent: Mary Burgan, Indiana University
	“Shared Governance and the Public Interest: Representative Politics and the Role of Faculty”
		Brian Turner, Randolph-Macon College
	"Shared Governance: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective"
		James Lollar, Radford University
	“Should Librarians Have a Seat at the Table? Faculty Status for Academic Librarians and the Role Librarians Play in Faculty Governance”
		Jami Bryan, University of Mary Washington Charlotte Johnson Jones, University of Mary Washington
	“From a Tenured to a Contingent College Faculty: Challenges and Solutions for Faculty Governance”
		Brent M. Shea, Sweet Briar College
	“Reality Check: Myths, Opportunities, and Benefits of Diversity in Faculty Governance”
		Raul Chavez-Negrete, University of Mary Washington Shaunna Payne, University of Mary Washington
Refreshments & Closing Workshop: Dr. Mary Burgan, Former General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors			4:15-5:30 P.M.

 

Speaker Bios

 

Kenneth Andersen, Professor of Communication Emeritus, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, has 40 years of participation in academic shared governance. That includes chairing the campus senate and University Senates Conference; member and chair of the Faculty Advisory Council to the Illinois Board of Higher Education; and a term on the National Council of the American Association of University Professors, chair of three of its committees as well as AAUP State Conference and Chapter Presidencies. At Illinois he served as Associate LAS Dean, acting head and chair of two departments and Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in addition to chairing a Big Ten Academic Leadership Program. He was president of the National Communication Assn., Assn. of Communication Administration and Central States Communication Assn. Publications include topics in communication ethics, persuasion, argumentation, and academic governance.

Mary Burgan began her career as a professor of English at Indiana University-Bloomington in 1964, continuing there until 1994 when she became General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors. She retired from that position in July, 2004 and completed a book based upon her years in higher education entitled Whatever Happened to the Faculty: Who Decides in Higher Education (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Her study of Katherine Mansfield, Illness, Gender, and Writing was published by Johns Hopkins in 1994. During her time at Indiana she served as Director of the freshman program in English, Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the English Department, and presiding officer of the Faculty Council. She won Indiana University’s Distinguished Service Award in 1991. She held the chair of Distinguished Visiting Professor of Humanistic Studies at Marquette University in 1992-93. She has received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Marquette, the Frances Andrew March Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of English from the Association of Departments of English, and a Rockefeller Center Residency at Bellagio, Italy. She was a visiting scholar at the University of California Center for Studies in Higher Education at Berkeley in 2005.

 

Daniel LaVista is the Executive Director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), the Commonwealth’s coordinating body for higher education. He has held this position since August 2004, collaborating with Council members and agency staff to make higher education policy recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly in such areas as academic and student affairs, institutional research, budgeting and finance, capital planning, and state financial aid. LaVista holds a Ph.D. in Speech and Dramatic Arts from Syracuse University (NY), a M.A. in English Literature from the University of Dayton (OH), and a B.A. in English from Siena College (NY).