[AAUP-ULL-List] Questions for the Provost Candidate

[Keith Dorwick]

More questions: what is your reasoning concerning tenure? How do you make
your decisions and what factors into those decisions?

On Friday, April 20, 2018, Leslie Bary <leslie.bary at gmail.com> wrote:

> I might send to President but cc Dianne.
>
> We should also be thinking of some well put questions for this candidate.
> I am considering:
> -- discuss the merger/downsizing he just helped finish
> -- what does he understand the Humanities to be and what is his vision for
> them here?
>
> lb
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Keith Dorwick <kdorwick at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I vote Yes as well.
>>
>> I wonder if we should send both motions to Dianne as Chair of the Search
>> Committee with a cc to the President. That might get us a meeting right
>> then and there.
>>
>> On Friday, April 20, 2018, Leslie Bary <leslie.bary at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Voting yes on motion.
>>>
>>> Also saying yes to going to media as next step.
>>>
>>> Wondering about insisting on a meeting with President also.
>>>
>>> Leslie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Keith Dorwick <kdorwick at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's the reason one motion goes to the system President, sending the
>>>> signal that we are willing to air dirty laundry. Also, I think then we get
>>>> media involved. We talk to the Chronicle and to Marsha Sills locally and we
>>>> make a stink.
>>>>
>>>> But if we also send the motions directly to the search committee, then
>>>> the President will now we are unhappy and this might get ugly.
>>>>
>>>> And it is tenured folks who have to the public face of this.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, April 20, 2018, Jonathan Goodwin <joncgoodwin at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to talk about what happens if we pass this motion and it
>>>>> is ignored and the candidate is hired.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Keith Dorwick <kdorwick at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I think several members of the search committee were there at the
>>>>>> meeting Wed. Yes, in checking the list I think I saw the chair there
>>>>>> (Dianne Olivier) and Bob Slater certainly was.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So the Search Committee is in on the loop on this. If everyone
>>>>>> wishes, I would be glad to send the motions (there's a similar motion in
>>>>>> front of the AAUP chapter, but addressed to the System President) to Dianne
>>>>>> for distribution to the Committee.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Keith
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dr. Keith Dorwick
>>>>>> Professor of English
>>>>>> Editor, Technoculture (http://tcjournal.org)
>>>>>> The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
>>>>>> P.O. Box 43719
>>>>>> Lafayette, LA 70504-3719
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Goodwin <
>>>>>> joncgoodwin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would like to hear what a member of the search committee has to
>>>>>>> say about the procedure and the timing before voting on a motion. Has
>>>>>>> anyone contacted one?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Keith Dorwick <kdorwick at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello, all. As you know the President has announced an extension to
>>>>>>>> the search for a Provost (on Wed) with campus visits to follow (on Monday).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is an unacceptable procedure and practice. Several of us have
>>>>>>>> worked on a motion to come from the chapter to the UL Lafayette System
>>>>>>>> President (not our President, as we are also asking Senate to do that), and
>>>>>>>> I attach the text below as a pdf.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Could you please reply to this note with yes, no or abstain. While
>>>>>>>> this is admittedly against procedure, we can fix this with an official vote
>>>>>>>> at our next meeting but with a half week's notice sometimes we have to act
>>>>>>>> in urgency.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please let me know if you have questions and please don't start new
>>>>>>>> threads by changing the subject line. For those of us who use Gmail, if you
>>>>>>>> do that, things get way confusing way fast!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Dr. Keith Dorwick
>>>>>>>> Professor of English
>>>>>>>> Editor, Technoculture (http://tcjournal.org)
>>>>>>>> The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
>>>>>>>> P.O. Box 43719
>>>>>>>> Lafayette, LA 70504-3719
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Keith Dorwick
>>>> Professor of English
>>>> Editor, Technoculture (http://tcjournal.org)
>>>> The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
>>>> P.O. Box 43719
>>>> Lafayette, LA 70504-3719
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Leslie Bary, Ph.D. | *Asst. Prof. Spanish and Latin American Studies
>>> https://languages.louisiana.edu/academic-programs/spanish
>>>
>>> Department of Modern Languages | P.O. Drawer 43651
>>> University of Louisiana | Lafayette, LA  70504
>>> Tel.: 337.482.6814 | Fax: 337.482.5446
>>> Email: lbary at louisiana.edu | ORCID 0000-0003-1432-3348
>>> <http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1432-3348>
>>> Office hours SP 2018 F 9-12 and by appointment
>>>
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>>> .edu/eng/
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Keith Dorwick
>> Professor of English
>> Editor, Technoculture (http://tcjournal.org)
>> The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
>> P.O. Box 43719
>> Lafayette, LA 70504-3719
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> *Leslie Bary, Ph.D. | *Asst. Prof. Spanish and Latin American Studies
> https://languages.louisiana.edu/academic-programs/spanish
>
> Department of Modern Languages | P.O. Drawer 43651
> University of Louisiana | Lafayette, LA  70504
> Tel.: 337.482.6814 | Fax: 337.482.5446
> Email: lbary at louisiana.edu | ORCID 0000-0003-1432-3348
> <http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1432-3348>
> Office hours SP 2018 F 9-12 and by appointment
>
> Visit Louisiana Conference, American Association of University Professors
> http://aaupla.org
> Visit Latin American Studies Association http://lasa.international.
> pitt.edu/eng/
>


-- 
Dr. Keith Dorwick
Professor of English
Editor, Technoculture (http://tcjournal.org)
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
P.O. Box 43719
Lafayette, LA 70504-3719
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