The Post Online: Faculty evaluations of OU administrators to proceed
The Ohio University chapter of the American Association of University Professors will proceed with evaluations of three top-ranking OU administrators but without university resources or administrative recognition.
The association originally called for an evaluation of the president and provost, a referendum that 80 percent of 477 voting faculty approved. After the Board of Trustees blocked OU Provost Kathy Krendl from approving the evaluation, the AAUP said at Faculty Senate’s May 15 meeting it would continue with an evaluation and include OU’s vice president for regional higher education.
“We see the assessment as something that 80 percent of the participating faculty wanted,” said John Gilliom, the association’s executive committee member. “One legal memo is not going to shut us down on this.”
In an e-mail to Kevin Mattson, president of the association’s OU chapter, Legal Affairs Director John Burns said he has “legally authorized the administration to deny the AAUP any right to utilize university resources to circulate or otherwise distribute and return the evaluation document or materials.”
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