JUST A QUICK NOTE about my absence and about Monday's board meeting. I seem to have come down with food poisoning, or so the doctor thinks. It started late Monday, when I tried to do the ol' treadmill, but, after 15 minutes, it was no use. I thought about going to the board meeting, but there was no way.Last night, I finally started improving, but I haven't even read my emails until just now, so I'm way out of the loop.
Friends have given me reports of Monday's meeting, however. One friend wrote that, oddly, the Faculty Hiring Priority List for both colleges had been pulled from the agenda, and no explanation had been given.
This meant that the matter could not even be discussed by the board.
But senate presidents can ask questions, can't they? At the part of the meeting (at the end) when the various governance groups give reports, IVC Senate President Wendy G asked why the priority lists had been pulled. Despite the late hour, Wendy's question sparked a great amount of debate and discussion.
Evidently, the unilateral pulling of the Faculty Hiring Priority Lists from the BOT agenda violates board policy 4011.1, which states that the Faculty Hiring Lists are to be submitted to the Board in October. (See board policies. And see excerpt below.)
According to my source, in the course of the discussion, it was revealed that Mathur had unilaterally pulled the item. Why? Because there were some "questions" from "some trustees." That's so typical. Mathur and his trustee partners—Fuentes, et al.—run the show by themselves and they freeze out the likes of Padberg. They're corrupt bastards, they are.
Padberg wanted specifics: who raised questions?
Controversy continued as different reports were given by the different groups. But faculty remained united. Mathur looked like the "village idiot," I'm told.
Naturally, this Mathur-caused delay will make it difficult getting things together by the time of the January job announcements.
Gotta go.
For October BOT meeting highlights, go to Board Meeting Highlights.
The relevant part of BP 4011.1 is section 11:
...By October of each academic year, following approval by the Chancellor, each College President will submit to the Board of Trustees a ranked list of recommended full-time faculty positions for the subsequent year, classified according to Item 2 above, and compiled by an internal process developed by the Academic Senate and the President, and approved by the President....Video for the Oct. 27 meeting will eventually become available on the district website.
7 comments:
That rascal Mathur. Pulling fakulty lists is such bullshit. Ahem, ahem, ahem!
Hope you soon get over the shits, Chunkster.
Thanks Chunk! Where would we be without this blog?
Get well.
Post more pics.
Get better soon! Thanks for keeping us posted. These factual reports are invaluable.
Where did you eat????
Thanks Roy for posting this. I was at that meeting & Mathur was definitely out of control. I mean, being the little dictator he is, he yelled either Wendy or Bob pounding one of his fists or the gavel on the table. Of course, I'm at the point to where I'm not even going to question the things he does (well, in my own mind) b/c I always come up with the same answer, he's a freaking Neanderthal rat bastard, so you cannot expect anything more from him than what his mentality is. However, I also feel that I don't care where he goes, as long as he just goes away for good, pay him off if we have too.
Please voters help us rid ourselves of this little troll and save our district. I guess the question we could ask this guy is "Gee, Goo, are you smarter than a 5th grader?" Clearly the correct answer is "No."
Carmen and I co-chaired the Faculty Hiring Prioritization Committee at Saddleback. Dealing with Accreditation left us with a late start of meetings, and people -- faculty, deans and VPs -- hustled like crazy to get the list put together for the October board.
The people who assembled the paperwork so well and quickly deserve better. The faculty presenters who rearranged their schedules to meet the committee, and the committee members who stayed for hours to hear them all, deserve better. Pulled without explanation?! Because they "had questions"? Aren't those questions supposed to be asked in public anyway?!
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