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The following commentary was delivered by Faculty Senate President John Shrader at the Senate meeting on November 4, 2025. First, I’d like to say again how deeply disappointed I am that we will in the coming months be losing dozens… Read moreFaculty Senate President’s Opening Remarks
The UNL Faculty Senate has scheduled an emergency meeting Nov. 18 for a vote on a resolution of no-confidence in Chancellor Rodney Bennett. The resolution is part of a 12-page document prepared by a group of faculty members and submitted… Read moreFaculty Senate schedules vote on no-confidence resolution
You may have heard a version of this old joke: A man is in a terrible accident and is rushed to the hospital. After hours of surgery, the doctor finds the man’s wife in the waiting room. “Good news,” the… Read moreHaphazard Amputation is Not a Leadership Strategy
The pending $27.5 million in budget cuts dominated Chancellor Rodney Bennett’s remarks and faculty comments at the Oct. 7 UNL Faculty Senate meeting. Pervading many of the faculty remarks was a sense of frustration and fatalism about the process. The… Read moreFrustration, fatalism tinge faculty discussion of budget cuts
Does the budget reduction process truly recognize “the importance of the faculty voice”? After a lot of digging into our own bylaws and established norms, my assessment is that no, it does not. Shared Governance Colleges and universities have never… Read moreUNL’s Proposed Cuts Don’t Follow Established Rules and Norms
Cuts in federal spending on research and small increases in state appropriations for higher education will mean belt-tightening and higher tuition, NU President Jeffrey Gold told the UNL Faculty Senate Tuesday, May 6 Gold said the NU system has lost… Read moreGold outlines NU’s grim budget picture for Faculty Senate
There has been a lot of attention paid to tenure lately, particularly from state legislatures in places like Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio, and of course recently right here in Nebraska. The debates over tenure tend to focus on… Read moreIntroducing “Brought to You by Tenure”
John Bender is Kearns Professor Emeritus of Journalism. Complaints about a lack of shared governance and indifference to faculty to concerns were raised by faculty members at the open mic portion of the Faculty Senate meeting Feb. 6. The issues… Read moreFaculty raise alarms about shared governance at Senate meeting
The following is a transcript of remarks offered by faculty affiliated with AAUP during the open mic portion of the UNL Faculty Senate meeting on February 6, 2024. Please also see our coverage of the meeting. Susan Vanderplas: Hi, I’m… Read moreRemarks offered at UNL Faculty Senate meeting
