In a sharply written article by Renee Schafer Horton of the Tucson Citizen (one of our favorite no-nonsense monitors of the 'restructuring effort' at the U of A, Shelton mentions that tenured faculty can be let go in a restructuring, but that they will 'definitely' be protected.
Schafer Horton raises a very interesting point: that of minority employees at risk. Bottom-level jobs will be the first to go, and who usually occupies those positions? Minorities and women. Meanwhile, Hays claims that diversity at the U of A 'will not be compromised.' So which is it, administrators? Are you or are you not planning on re-assigning tenured faculty to lower paying jobs? Are you or are you not planning to lay off hundreds of minority employees?
From the Citizen:
"Arizona Board of Regents policy allows for layoffs of tenured faculty "upon reorganization when determined to be necessary due to budgetary or programmatic considerations requiring program discontinuance, curtailment, modification or redirection."
However, Shelton said in an e-mail to the Tucson Citizen on Tuesday that "We will definitely protect tenure and tenure-eligible faculty."
Tenure and tenure-track faculty are about 11 percent of UA's employees. When adjunct faculty, lecturers and instructors - part-time positions not immune from layoffs - are included, UA's instructional faculty account for 19 percent of UA workers.
Administrators - deans, vice deans, vice presidents and vice provosts - are not immune to cutbacks, Garcia said. However, if they are also tenured faculty, they would be able to return to teaching "at a pay cut," he said."
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/100434.php
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Let's face it... they are going to cut the contingent work force... the people who have been working for hardly any money or recognition.
That's probably true and you have to ask yourself: do you want to pay a professional secretary $10/hour to type 100 words per minute, or pay a professor $100,000 a year to hunt and peck? Sometimes employing more people actually SAVES money.
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