The Faculty Council accuses the administration and the Board of Visitors of undermining the faculty's elected representatives by forging ties with individual professors, of barring faculty leaders from public meetings, and of retaliating against those who speak up.
Soft money salaries weaken collegial bonds among scholars, make researchers less willing to teach, undermine loyalties of faculty and institutions to one another, and discourage innovation by PIs.
Although I firmly believed that dismissing TV bolstered (rather than undermined) my faculties as a film critic, missing out on so many potentially interesting programmes over the years did make me something of a social pariah.
That sort of open-ended phrase could be used to undermine academic freedom, some faculty members say.
A whopping 95percentt of the faculty on all 23 campuses voted to approve rolling two-day strikes if CSU Chancellor Charles Reed refuses a fair contract and stands by his "take-backs," which would undermine shared governance with the faculty and weaken a host of faculty rights.
Taking a page from the "University" of Phoenix script, they seek to run the "delivery" and "management" of course materials, stripping these vital functions from faculty, undermining the tradition of shared governance, and putting more power in the hands of unqualified administrators and managers.
Economic pressures also account for the pay divide between public and private institutions, which Mr. Hartle said could undermine public universities' ability to retain their best faculty members.
In a Sept. 26 letter he said the faculty should consider that unionizing "can undermine the positive, collaborative relationship that is at the heart of Manhattan School of Music".
Although participants may have an inflated view of their adoption of learner-centered teaching, this does not entirely undermine the value of professional development workshops in training faculty to use these practices.
A drop in that percentage, he believes, might undermine "the incentive for universities to continue to invest in facilities and faculty".
