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“The FBS transition has gone so poorly that members of the UMass faculty senate in April pushed for a vote on a nonbinding motion to urge the university to return to the FCS or drop football altogether. The vote failed.”

Sigh.

Read more about the Mass Morass here.

Margaret Soltan, August 13, 2016 10:58AM
Posted in: sport

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5 Responses to ““The FBS transition has gone so poorly that members of the UMass faculty senate in April pushed for a vote on a nonbinding motion to urge the university to return to the FCS or drop football altogether. The vote failed.””

  1. Brian Ogilvie Says:

    As a UMass Faculty Senator who voted in favor of the motion, I would like to add that many, if not most, of the Senators voting against it were deans and other higher-level administrators who were Senators ex officio but had voting rights because they also held academic appointments.

  2. dmf Says:

    a nonbinding motion? sigh…

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Brian: Yup.

  4. Brian Ogilvie Says:

    dmf: The motion was non-binding because the Faculty Senate’s role in shared governance is limited to academic affairs. It doesn’t have the right to dictate policy about athletics, but it can express its opinion.

  5. charlie Says:

    Brian, what FS have realized that if their admins are borrowing money for supposedly non-academic functions, then it’s going to hit academics. UMASS, from what I’ve read, borrowed a heaping bunch for athletic build-outs. No matter what ADs nor their satraps will claim, there is no way that ain’t hitting the academic side of the institution. The UC faculty asked why, if tuition has risen so dramatically the past decade, it wasn’t manifesting in the classroom. This is what they found out:

    They Pledge Your Tuition: The Council of UC Faculty Association

    cucfa.org/news/tuition_bonds.php

    When any uni takes on debt for recreation centers, luxury dorms or stadiums, the student loans become the collateral. That money is earmarked for the debt service and very little will be left for anything else. What’s taking place at the UCs is the same mechanism used throughout the country….

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