Minneapolis Star Tribune,\u00a0Readers Write: (Dec. 1): MnSCU faculty<\/b><\/p>\n
MNSCU<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n Editorial Board wrongly disrespects faculty<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n The Star Tribune\u2019s Nov. 24 editorial (\u201cA job-friendly course is right for MnSCU\u201d) misrepresented \u2014 and even appeared to threaten \u2014 state university faculty.<\/p>\n \u201cBut MnSCU\u2019s faculty should understand that they share a mission to serve Minnesota, in institutions that are accountable to the public,\u201d the Editorial Board wrote. \u201cIf they prove unwilling to take steps of MnSCU\u2019s choosing to better meet the state\u2019s workforce challenge, the Legislature has the power to dictate change of its own devising.\u201d<\/p>\n The board did not carefully read or listen to our statement to Chancellor Steven Rosenstone and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities trustees concerning the strategic plan called \u201cCharting the Future\u201d (CTF):<\/p>\n \u201cThe Inter Faculty Organization (IFO) embraces the values and commitments inherent in \u2018Charting the Future\u2019 \u2026 We commit ourselves to bringing the best ideas of more than 3,500 faculty members to the table as we move from these recommendations to concrete actions that will best serve those who chose to study at one of our state universities.\u201d<\/p>\n The editorial suggests that our demand that CTF recognize distinctive workforce missions between community and technical colleges and state universities is insubordination. The newspaper also implies that our cautionary warning that CTF honor local control and decentralization is obstructionist. Nothing could be farther from the truth.<\/p>\n Rather, we are collaborative partners, exercising our responsibilities under shared governance. Our constructive criticism of an ill-advised first draft dramatically improved the final report. Likewise, we will press that implementation come not from the top down, but from the bottom up.<\/p>\n Monte Bute, Woodbury<\/strong><\/p>\n The writer is action coordinator for the Inter Faculty Organization, the collective bargaining representative for faculty in the seven state universities of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minneapolis Star Tribune,\u00a0Readers Write: (Dec. 1): MnSCU faculty MNSCU Editorial Board wrongly disrespects faculty The Star Tribune\u2019s Nov. 24 editorial (\u201cA job-friendly course is right for MnSCU\u201d) misrepresented \u2014 and even appeared to threaten \u2014 state university faculty. \u201cBut MnSCU\u2019s faculty should understand that they share a mission to serve Minnesota, in institutions that are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}