{"id":2737,"date":"2014-10-31T21:21:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T02:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2014-10-31T21:21:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T02:21:35","slug":"faculty-revolt-in-minnesota-spreads-from-campus-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2014\/10\/31\/faculty-revolt-in-minnesota-spreads-from-campus-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty revolt in Minnesota spreads from campus to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"articleHeader\">\n<h2>MnSCU chancellor under fire from faculty<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"HeadingDetails\">\n<li class=\"first\">Article by:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0b478d;\" title=\"EMMA NELSON\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/bios\/261800211.html\">EMMA NELSON<\/a>\u00a0, Star Tribune<\/li>\n<li class=\"updatedBy\" style=\"color: #666666;\">Updated: October 31, 2014 &#8211; 8:10 PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"headingIntro\"><strong>Faculty leaders at the college system\u2019s 3 largest 4-year schools have voted \u201cno confidence.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fullArticleStory\">\n<div class=\"heroImageWraper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stmedia.startribune.com\/images\/545*425\/1chan0203gallery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"425\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imageDescriptionContainer equalHeight\" style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a class=\"showHideContent hideContent\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff;\" title=\"hide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/north\/281145572.html#\">hide<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">Faculty leaders at the three largest four-year schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system have voted \u201cno confidence\u201d in the system\u2019s chancellor, spurred by what they say is a lack of transparency and poor oversight of the 31-school system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">The faculty association at Minnesota State University, Mankato was the most recent to jump on board, with a unanimous vote of no confidence against Chancellor Steven Rosenstone on Thursday. Similar votes took place in recent weeks at Winona State and St. Cloud State universities. The three schools represent more than half of MnSCU\u2019s students and faculty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">\u201cThe Faculty Association hopes that its action will encourage the MnSCU Board of Trustees to take a greater role in oversight &#8230; and redirect the Chancellor to more open and participatory leadership,\u201d an MSU Mankato faculty association statement said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">Faculty leaders have expressed particular concern over Rosenstone\u2019s handling of Charting the Future, a long-term plan to reform the MnSCU system. Two faculty unions pulled out of the planning process last week, citing transparency concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">MSU Mankato Faculty Association President Mary Visser said faculty agree with the plan\u2019s tenets \u2014 things such as increasing affordability and access for students. What they don\u2019t agree with, she said, is how the planning process is unfolding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">\u201cThey listen to us because they have to, and then they do whatever it is they want,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not always, in our minds, in the best interest of the students, of our institution, of MnSCU as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">The faculty association statement called Rosenstone\u2019s management decisions \u201csecretive, non-inclusionary and damaging,\u201d pointing out specific examples such as money spent on an outside contractor for Charting the Future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">\u201cHe spent $2 million on consultants while the state campuses were suffering crippling budget shortfalls and struggling with declining enrollment,\u201d the faculty statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">Rosenstone declined to comment Friday. MnSCU issued a statement Thursday pointing to strong attendance at recent Charting the Future feedback sessions, called \u201cGallery Walks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">\u201cThe initial success of the Gallery Walks is in contrast to recent university faculty votes of \u2018no confidence,\u2019\u2009\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">Larger concerns<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">Though Charting the Future is a big concern, it\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. Faculty say they\u2019ve struggled with Rosenstone\u2019s leadership since he started in the fall of 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">\u201cThese concerns have been building, and they\u2019ve existed for quite a while,\u201d said Inter Faculty Organization President Jim Grabowska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">Shortly after Rosenstone\u2019s arrival, he froze money that faculty use for professional development, such as attending conferences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">\u201cThat was something that didn\u2019t have to happen. It\u2019s not something that normally happened,\u201d Visser said. \u201cRight off the bat, it was like, \u2018OK, what\u2019s going on here? Is this person going to be in support of the faculty, or what?\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">In late spring, faculty members put together a \u201cBill of Particulars\u201d listing issues ranging from a lack of opportunity for input on major decisions to how Rosenstone represents MnSCU at the state Legislature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">Still, faculty say, they haven\u2019t gotten much response from the chancellor beyond official statements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">\u201cWhat we really need is some serious conversation,\u201d Grabowska said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"showHideDetails\" class=\"equalHeight\">\n<div class=\"imageDescription\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\n<p>Fac<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MnSCU chancellor under fire from faculty Article by:\u00a0EMMA NELSON\u00a0, Star Tribune Updated: October 31, 2014 &#8211; 8:10 PM Faculty leaders at the college system\u2019s 3 largest 4-year schools have voted \u201cno confidence.\u201d hide Faculty leaders at the three largest four-year schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system have voted \u201cno confidence\u201d in the [&hellip;]<\/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-2737","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\/2737","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=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}