Okay, I got permission from the anonymous faculty person to post the following: Here is the exact e-mail from Dan Smith to faculty about cuts which does mention which majors are facing cuts... Faculty, If you weren’t at the meeting or watching on line, I would ask that you click the link and watch. As I said today, timing is everything. Under the terms of the contract, if I am going to notify tenured faculty of layoffs, I need to do so in consultation with the faculty assembly regarding the curricular impacts of doing so, and I need to give people notice on December 1. The layoffs would take effect August 1. Today’s meeting began the consultative process which will necessarily play out in the coming months as we collectively analyze the curricular and programmatic impacts of faculty layoffs. Programs facing potential layoffs include the following: English Humanities and Social Science, Electrical Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering Technology, Architectural Engineering Technology, Landscape Design and Horticulture, Math, Science. In certain programs the layoff of full time faculty will result in a program closure. For diesel, equine and landscape design, we will analyze where we are in the spring as it pertains to enrollment and other changes which may have brought the programs into balance. Program closures require us to have a teach out plan for enrolled students. My advice to each and every program is to keep focusing your efforts on recruitment, retention and seeing students succeed. I hope that some of these steps can be avoided through attrition. I hope to have agreement soon on a cash incentive for those currently eligible to retire and those eligible under the early retirement provisions of the contract. Alternatively, retirement eligible faculty would be able exercise their right to take half-time load under Article 36(E), and I am willing to extend the term of that status for up to five years. More broadly, my focus is not solely academic. We have operational budget cuts in place and will be enforcing them. The biodigester has a plan in place with concrete benchmarks. Same with the farm. We are pushing a new structure at SHAPE to help increase revenue. Admissions and enrollment are well aware of what is at stake. We hope to have a new marketing director in place by the Christmas Break. Here is the catch. Inquiries are up. Awareness is up. Vermont as a whole sees us as a vital part of the state’s economic and community fabric. No one serves the students we do, as well as we do it. We cannot allow any doubt into our own minds, the minds of students, the minds of parents or the minds of the community that we continue to deliver the most unique and highest quality career oriented education in Northern New England. We will continue to do so. We face challenges that we will work through together, but we must remain our own best advocates as we seek to recover the strength we once had. Onward. Dan Dan Smith | President VERMONT TECH
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:52:47 +0000
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