{"id":5016,"date":"2009-02-02T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/02\/downturn-threatens-the-facultys-role-in-running-colleges\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T00:55:55","slug":"downturn-threatens-the-facultys-role-in-running-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/02\/downturn-threatens-the-facultys-role-in-running-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Downturn Threatens the Faculty&#8217;s Role in Running Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/cgi-bin\/printable.cgi?article=http:\/\/chronicle.com\/weekly\/v55\/i22\/22a00102.htm\">Downturn Threatens the Faculty&#8217;s Role in Running Colleges<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nProfessors are losing their grip. Tough economic times are leading administrators to propose swift changes that short-circuit faculty governance, long a prized principle that gives professors wide-ranging authority over educational matters.<\/p>\n<p>The results, faculty members say, are hastily conceived plans that reorganize academic programs, decrease professors&#8217; roles in shaping the curriculum, and jeopardize tenure applications \u2014 all done with little advice from the faculty, in the name of saving money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: Downturn Threatens the Faculty&#8217;s Role in Running Colleges Professors are losing their grip. Tough economic times are leading administrators to propose swift changes that short-circuit faculty governance, long a prized principle that gives professors wide-ranging authority over educational &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/02\/downturn-threatens-the-facultys-role-in-running-colleges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1223],"tags":[1288936],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governance","tag-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}