The Chronicle: Rensselaer Professors Challenge Provost’s Decision to Suspend Faculty Senate
A struggle over faculty governance is coming to a head at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where faculty members plan to vote next week on a proposal that would ask the university’s provost to reinstate the Faculty Senate, which he suspended in early August.
The provost, Robert E. Palazzo, has cited concerns about possible interference in a continuing review of faculty governance as one of his reasons for suspending the senate on August 7. But some professors say they suspect the move was in response to the senate’s election as its vice president a colleague who has openly criticized Rensselaer’s president, Shirley Ann Jackson.
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