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Faculty Senate Newsletter, December 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Dec 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, December 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Message from President: Ingeniously positioned in a way that can only be accomplished through centuries of cultural evolution, Christmas occurs near the longest, darkest night of the year so as to suggest that even a small ray of light shines brightest when piercing the gloom. However severe the shortage of light around the yuletide, it never rivals the acute dimness of that social counterpart to night, blacklisting. With the advent of web sites such as Professor Watch List, an organization that stigmatizes dissenting professors and encourages students to reconnoiter them, blacklisting is much in the news these days, and rightly …

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-14, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Dec 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-14, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution on renaming the grievance committee, adopted on January 19, 2017.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-15, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Dec 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-15, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution regarding the professor watchlist, adopted on February 22, 2017.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-11, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Nov 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-11, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution on improving graduate student stipends with the aim of reducing graduate student debt and increasing LSU competitiveness in recruiting graduate students, adopted on November 8, 2016.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-10, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Nov 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-10, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution regarding free speech and academic freedom at LSU, adopted on November 8, 2016.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-13, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Nov 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-13, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution regarding live captive mascots and LSU; postponed until the December 2016 meeting.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-12, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Oct 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-12, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution regarding Workday implementation, adopted on October 11, 2016.

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Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Oct 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Message from President: When November opens the calendrical gateway to the holidays, Thanksgiving, the holiday nominally devoted to appreciation, draws attention to the question of gratitude. Faculty members live, move, and have their being in the sphere of gratitude. These talented people, whose aptitudes would qualify them for a thousand high-paying careers, set aside lucrative opportunities in order to celebrate the bounty of knowledge. Even during the most depressing moments of an academic career—even despite excessive workloads, deteriorating facilities, and budget shortfalls—faculty members quietly applaud, through their service, the implicit generosity of a universe that not only makes itself interpretable, …

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Faculty Senate Newsletter, September 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Sep 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, September 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Message from President: Academe is not immune to the new epidemic of affiliation. Often enough, thinking people choose careers in higher education owing in part to a desire to escape the avalanche of demographic labels—race; class; gender; ethnicity; income; educational level; zip code and associated social status; favorite URLs—that rolls over individuality and buries free thinking. Academe, many hope, provides the last bastion for individual achievement. The quest for liberty, whether from imposed group identities or mass movements, is, as revolutionaries soon discover, not so easy as expected. Even dissidents want to belong to something. Surprisingly, academic folk prize affiliation …

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-08, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College May 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-08, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution regarding parental leave for LSU faculty, adopted on May 10, 2016.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-07, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College May 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-07, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution on affirming the role of area studies and diversity programs at LSU; tabled, not adopted.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-09, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College May 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-09, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution on amending PS-36-T and -NT so as to comply with Faculty Senate Resolution 03-04 on grade distributions; tabled, not adopted.

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Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College May 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Message from President: With every change of regime comes a predictable if welcome discussion of the structure of higher education. In Louisiana, with its four systems and its Board of Regents, this “conversation,” as administrators like to call it, usually centers on either the rearrangement of campuses or the consolidation of administrative units or the reduction of overhead. Occasionally, the more optimistic among us hope that, during regime turnover, the membership of management boards might change (with the good effect of allowing current board members to resume their proper role, that of wealthy heirs ironically professing the gospel of the …

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-03, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Apr 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-03, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution on supporting the Louisiana Museum of Natural History at LSU; tabled, not adopted.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-05, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Apr 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-05, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution on recognition and honoring of retiring LSU faculty at the commencement ceremony, adopted on April 14, 2016.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-06, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Apr 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-06, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution regarding revision of membership requirements for selected Faculty Senate committees, adopted on April 14, 2016.

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Faculty Senate Newsletter, April 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Apr 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, April 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Message from President: Among the axioms endorsed by literary people is the assumption that comedy coincides with confidence. Those who laugh are those who rise above worry: those who feel superior to or at least capable of dealing with whatever situation is amusing them. Similar statements could characterize a less jolly mentality, skepticism. Those who doubt are those who delay urgency, who allow time for reflection prior to action, emergency or otherwise. Old-timers can probably remember an era when well-funded universities encouraged skepticism. In the days of yore, professors routinely doubted that everyone who entered college would enjoy what the …

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-04, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Mar 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-04, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution regarding membership in the coalition on intercollegiate athletics, adopted on March 16, 2016.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-02, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Feb 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-02, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution on reducing stress levels of students and faculty that result from the investments of family and friends attending the graduation ceremony; failed, not adopted.

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Faculty Senate Resolution 16-01, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Feb 2016

Faculty Senate Resolution 16-01, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution regarding freedom of expression on campus, adopted on February 22, 2016.

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Faculty Senate Newsletter, February 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Feb 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, February 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Message from President: This season of political campaigns, in which every candidate tries to be universally nice to everyone while also mounting a universal attack against all enemies, brings to mind the strange link between niceness and authoritarianism. In Louisiana, a state with a royalist heritage (whether the French or the Spanish monarchies) and a state in which a preoccupation with etiquette and sociability blunts the painful recognition of a long history of disappointments, losses, failures, exclusions, and disasters, the linkage between sugary sweetness and acidic repression affects almost everything, whether the reluctance to speak out against social ills such …

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Faculty Senate Newsletter, January 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Jan 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, January 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Message from President: A favorite adage among philanthropically minded people holds that “it’s the people who matter,” that other concerns, whether politics or organizational structure or financing, may re-route the road to success or failure but that character and devotion ultimately determine outcomes. The notion that anyone with “heart” may succeed anywhere and under any circumstances may have a sentimental appeal, but even zeal and commitment must work in or against some sort of structure. Paradoxically, Louisiana decision-makers like the idea that clever people, especially youngsters, can break down any barrier even at the same time that they also adore …

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