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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="elementToProof">The precedence that is being set leaves
every single one of us in jeopardy of having a Resolution of No Confidence</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="elementToProof">brought
against us at any point if only a subgroup of Senators gathers and writes away.</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I want to thank you all for the dialogue at yesterday’s Academic Senate meeting. I write today to express my continued concern over the way the No Confidence Resolutions
were developed and brought to Senate. Please allow me to explain. </span></p>
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<li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A meeting was held by “invite only” to just faculty members of Academic Senate. I don’t buy the story that all Senators couldn’t be invited because
there was no authority to call an entire Senate meeting because students and administrative members were specifically excluded. In other words, the limited few invited did not have a sampling of all membership categories. </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Without a subcommittee of Senate being formally pulled together to write, review, and edit the resolution, it was presented with only one week notice for individual review. It is not clear if
Senators had time to discuss with those they represent within that one week or if they voted without consultation. </span></li></ol>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Most importantly, this establishes an extremely problematic precedent</b> that any subgroup of Senators could gather and write a Resolution of No Confidence on any employee
or group of employees on campus. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Could it be that a group of Senators may not like the high DFW rates in a faculty member’s course and meet with a select group by invite only and then bring a disparaging
No Confidence Resolution to Senate without ever fact checking or discussing with representation from all Senators and that faculty member? Is that the direction for Senate? Even if that resolution against the faculty member with high DFW rates is voted down,
hasn’t that created negative publicity for that faculty member? </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I ask that you take a step back from voting and carry this through in the same manner as other matters in Senate. This request to step back is NOT about minimizing voices
or suggesting that resolutions of No Confidence should not exist when Senate deems necessary – this is about the process. The irony that the Resolution about a process is not following a process of its own does not escape me. But the main reason is
<b>the precedence that is being set leaves every single one of us in jeopardy of having a Resolution of No Confidence</b>
<b>brought against us at any point if only a subgroup of Senators gathers and writes away.
</b>And since there are no rules, could it be a single Senator that gets a Resolution of No Confidence on the publicly available Academic Senate agenda? </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Going through with this without a formal process in place first may be a reason for a small group of Senators to gather and deliver a resolution with a vote of No Confidence
against Academic Senate. </span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Let’s do the right thing and hold off on the Resolution until a formal process is in place that protects us all. Thank you for your consideration.
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