Reliable sources outside gm tenure cdmmittee say

Commend that Gary Webster, M_A, Political Science and “fly Robb, M.A, Hisotory be ranted tenure.

After preliminary investi- ation, the committee had VMed to defer tenure for tW0 years to the two but_, after interviews with them, dmy decided to recommend amt tenure be granted. previously, the committee “fled to recommend/that ten— Lfle be granted to Tom Spira austory), David Milne (Pol- fiical Science). Estelle

Senate Meeting

Senate, at its regular

nmrsday afternoon heard apresentation from the' hovincial Department of mutation on the controv— gsy surrounding the sta— um of the faculty of Edu- mtion, discussed the Rep— Mt of the Academic Plann— fig Committee, and bandied flout possible procedures fM'dealing with the rep— Mt of the Ad Hoc Committ- eeon Aims and Objectives. On the first issue, Hm Department of Educat— imfls presentation, little ms said that had not alr- mdy been heard at the mevious two meeting§_dea- lhg with this topic. Mke the PEI Teacher's Fweration and the Comm— iuee on the Future Re- mganization of the Educ— afion Faculty, the Depar—‘ mmnt took the View that Mutation should continue tohave faculty, or at ham:modified faculty, status. Perhaps understandably, 1B arguments in favour of misstatus strongly ress— Med those of the other Like them, the qmrtment argued that fa— _MIy status would result Ha better image for Edu— afifln, would give it gre— ter'autonomy to conduct tSaffairs, and would en— bleit to attract bette aCulty members . . '

Possibly because Senate asalready heard these ar- mmnts - twice - there aslittle discussion of ePresentation.

Next came the Report the Academic Planning 0mmfttee's Report. This :?ittee basically attem-

0 define what the

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Tenure‘Comniittee Ii’ecomme

Reddin_(Home EC), Frank Fal— vo (French), Lowell Sweet (Math), and Louis Hanic (Bi— ology). As well, John Wright (Math) was rejected and Wal- ter Isenor (Business Admini- stration) was deferred for the same two year period. Dr. Wright has also gone through the same process as Mr; Webster and Mr. Robb. It isgnot known what the result of his interview was. Mr. Isenor has refused to meet with the committee, as the other three already have,but is expected to attempt to get the reccommendation cha- nged on proce dural grounds.

Little Decided

.len gthy discussion of

anything of a housekeep— ing nature (such as cha- nging a word or two in the calendar's description of a course) and tabling anything substantive until presentations could be heard from the Departments involved.

Finally Senate bandied about several possible pro- cedures for attempting to deal with the report of the Committee on Aims and Objectives. This report is huge and contains scores of recommendations. The sheer volume would require a year of meetings to get through.

Several suggestions were bandied about inclu— ding many involving straw votes of Senate on whether a particular issue is wor- thy of discussion. Others suggested that it be ref—

verred back to committees,

and hoc and/or standing. After much discussion a ' proposal by Professor MacIntyre was brought that the Straw vote be held by mail before next meeting which then could be used by Senate as it wished.

/ Jim Kelly then moved the meeting be adjourned which passed 9—8. To quote Professor MacIntyre, "that is an ignorant, ig— norant trick."

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ds Robb. It is to be emphasized that the alleged impropiety has nothing to do with the ten— ure committee.

Dr. Medan, chainnan of the committee, refused comment on the issue, saying that this is a personal matter, and that in any case, the Terms of Reference of his committee do not allow him to do so.

He did say that this is a natural part of the process of applying for tenure. I First the committee examines the evidence submitted to it on paper, then it sends a letter to the candidate,

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telling him what its decision would be on that basis. Then

it asks for a personal inter- view with the candidiate —if he or she had not been acce- pted on the basis of this 'preliminary investigation. Only after this process does the committee make its rec— comendation to the president who in turn makes his rec— I comendation to the Board of Governors.

The committee is going to attempt to finish its work in time for the president tc make his recomendation to the Board. That must be done at the Board's meeting Dec.8.

Attempting Settlements

The negotiations of the clerical workers on campus members of C.U.P.E. local 1870, with the administra— ,tion continue to drag on. Unlike the maintenance workers, the C.U.P.E. members have taken a strict and business like approach to the negotiations, att— empting to gain an 'equit— able' settlement without the disruptions to all co- cerned of a strike.

The main issues under dispute are wages, job cla— ssifications, and fringe benefits. The union is attempting to gain parity with Public Service Associ— ation(PSA) workers in all three areas.

Presently the workers make from $4400 per year up. P.S.A. base salaries are in the range of $6500 per year. 1

In the area of job cl—’ assification, the workers presently work under a many— _hired claSsification system

.and desire to reduce it~tog the much simpler fOrm which the P.S.A. workers operate under. Also under dispute. is, whatever the new syst- em will be, where each wo- rker will fit it.

The negdtiating committee

“for C.U.P.E.Local 1870

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consists of Carol Groven— Stine, the president, who is from the Extension Department, Paul Grey,

a Lab techincian,Russe1 Melanson,from Audio- Visual,and Barb Bartell from the Library. They are receiving guidance from Bob Crockett who is the Island Represent- ative for C.U.P.E.

For the University are Mike-Hennessey,Merritt Crockett,and Dennis Clough.

This is the first contraCt to be negotiated by the Union for the people on campus since the local has only existed since July of this year.

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