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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear CALS Faculty,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Here are some updates from the last November Faculty Senate meeting. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">During Open Session, one of our CALS faculty, Dr. Russ Toomey, described concerns about the UA’s health care coverage. In detail, he described that ASU announced that they are now covering gender-affirming care,
leaving UArizona to be the only Arizona public university that does not have this coverage. As your senators, we saw this as an issue that we will continue to inquire about.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">There was a brief update related to General Education, and the faculty asked questions specifically about the requirements for civic education. There were concerns related to how this was being taught and outside
influence on the topics related to this. There will be more discussion of the General Education curriculum in future senate meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Multi-year (MY) contracts for career track faculty were also discussed. Specifically, CALS was discussed as one of the few colleges that have committed to MY contracts for all eligible career-track faculty (other
colleges have issued far fewer MY contracts). The brief discussion centered around the importance of MY (e.g., job security, greater buy-in) and specific ABOR policy, which now allows for the total number of MY contracts at UA to be 30% of the number of tenured/tenure-eligible
faculty. Given the current number of tenure/tenure-eligible faculty, the university is only providing about 10% of career-track faculty MY contracts. More MY contracts can be given.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A resolution was passed that focused on the retaliation of UA employees. The text below was brought to the Faculty Senate because of concerns related to speaking out about safety concerns at the UA (in light of the
investigation around Dr. Maxiner’s death). <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p style="margin:0in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Consistent with State law, ABOR and UHAP policies, and the tenants of academic freedom, The Faculty Senate affirms that all faculty, staff, and students not be subjected to harmful
personnel actions (reprisals) for public disclosure of information they reasonably believe evidence matters of public concern about 1) a violation of any law, 2) mismanagement, or 3) a gross waste of monies or an abuse of authority. This explicitly pertains
to disclosures related to public safety, including incidents associated with the murder of Professor Thomas Meixner and other public safety threats. Notwithstanding ARS 38- 533, the violation will be subject to severe penalties up to and including fines and
dismissal comparable to those provided for State employees under Arizona Statutes 38-531, 38-532, and 38-533.</span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">President Robbins was scheduled for an hour-long Q & A, but this was canceled, and he was not in attendance.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The next Faculty Senate meeting is Monday, Dec.5th, 3-5 pm. You can attend via zoom (registration link:</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kp-FRWusSvmTEBZQcothYw"><b><span style="color:#8B0015;background:white">https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kp-FRWusSvmTEBZQcothYw</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)
or in person (LAW Room 164). </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Also, just a reminder: You can give us anonymous comments/feedback on any faculty-related issue in this qualtrics survey:</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ZXIgJJOLxYVaD4"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ZXIgJJOLxYVaD4</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We appreciate those who have left us comments and will follow up soon.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ravi Goyal, Tim Ottusch, Katie Zeiders <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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