ISSUES and COMMENTARY
from the years 1997-2000
These issues may be "old" or fogotten
but few of them have gone away
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Last year
Forum on War in Iraq, March 4, 2003
(report
and pictures)
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The MPFA
Position Statements for the senate.
See also the letter from the senate president
regarding student
access to part-time faculty.
Office space and time: Comments by
Neill Bell and Susan Keegan
In 1999-2000 ESL
day classes were eliminated
without consulting with all faculty. This matter and a related
one dealing with
Academic
Freedom and Textbook Selection
Comments by Dean Lowenstein, Cheryl Howard,
Oscar DeHaro and Linda Guebert
A senate resolution was passed which reduced the role of administration
in textbook selection and reinvorced the role of faculty, including
part-timers.
The Case
of Peter Field
The MPFA executive committee supports Peter Field, the volleyball
coach
who was "reassigned" after he raised a Title IX issue.
Recent letters from Field to MC
President Carl Ehmann
and to the
MPFA mark a new phase in this important case.
Journalism at Mendocino College
Senate hears testimony
by former editors and advisors of the Eagle
and others including Nancy McLelland regarding the
GRAND JURY REPORT
on Freedom of Expression at Mendocino College
and the Response by
Carl Ehmann for the Board of Trustees.
Using Partnership For Excellence funds
to hire a full-time
football coach.
Faculty and community express their opinion
on the decision and how it was made.
(Geri Burrell is our representative
to the current, Fall, 2001, Educational Action Plan committee
which is where hiring prioruites are discussed with faculty.
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