https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj Describe impact councils have on influencing administrative decisions and/or what incentives are there to participate? en-us 2020-03-31 16:29:50 UTC 2026-01-27 02:20:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj/wish/487556328 The word council is used in variety of ways. If the intent is for discussion and decision making then I think it needs to create an appropriate level of representation of faculty. I have also see councils used not as decision makers, but as a group of experts on a particular topic that advise presidents and senior leaders. My main concern is our council and IFO structure, along with all the sub committees often seem to be parallel structure with high possibility of conflict. Quite frankly, given the total # of faculty, staff, and leadership on this campus we have way too many committees to be truly effective. That is both on the administrative and IFO side. The complicated structure with such a limited # of people to participate makes a shared governance model difficult to achieve.]]> 2020-04-01 19:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj/wish/487556328 https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj/wish/489923693 There are many councils, and it's unclear to me which councils influence which decisions. Administrative membership on councils overlaps, so whose voices are listened to regardless of the decision? Incentive for faculty participation is low when faculty are, structurally, not part of council's reporting to the president.]]> 2020-04-02 20:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj/wish/489923693 https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj/wish/489945793 The current administration set up these Councils as a way to streamline committees and advise the President. The President invited broad participation and the IFO agreed. The IFO appointees to these Councils were mistakenly understood as "representatives" with the assumption that whatever they said on these Councils was the voice of the faculty, and therefore if they agree with a decision, then the faculty agreed.  This created problems, and ultimately led to the IFO withdrawing from the Councils.  A key part of making shared governance work is separating the notion that any faculty member(s) can "speak" for the faculty outside of the formal governance process. Shared governance, therefore, needs to assume that the formal governance process is the only way to ascertain the "voice" of the faculty as a whole.  ]]> 2020-04-02 21:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj/wish/489945793 https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj/wish/490119654 2020-04-03 00:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj/wish/490119654 https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj/wish/492023515 2020-04-03 23:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/managementanalysis/gv668p2fbnkj/wish/492023515