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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400;">Hi CALES faculty,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400;">Join us in welcoming our newly elected CALES faculty senator,
<a href="https://agriculture.arizona.edu/person/robert-torres" title="https://agriculture.arizona.edu/person/robert-torres" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" id="LPlnk514189">
Dr. Bobby Torres</a>. Bobby is a Professor in AETI and has been at UA for 13 years. He will be a good addition to our team as we continue to advocate for faculty within our college. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400;">There are a few points worth summarizing from the Faculty Senate meeting on Oct. 2nd, 2023. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Many faculty have been following the College of Nursing situation in which slides from a doctoral seminar were uploaded online and then went viral. The situation
is described in more detail in the <a href="https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/Senate%20DEI%20summary%20and%20comments%20FINAL_CORRECTED%5B81%5D.pdf" id="LPlnk457691" title="https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/Senate%20DEI%20summary%20and%20comments%20FINAL_CORRECTED%5B81%5D.pdf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Faculty Senate’s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/Senate%20DEI%20summary%20and%20comments%20FINAL_CORRECTED%5B81%5D.pdf" title="https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/Senate%20DEI%20summary%20and%20comments%20FINAL_CORRECTED%5B81%5D.pdf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> report</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (presented
during Senate). A College of Nursing colleague gave open session remarks about the harm inflicted –not only within the transgender community, but within the College of Nursing (the faculty under scrutiny resigned)-- related to the incident and the University's
handling of the events. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dr. Gary Rhoades presented additional information from the General Faculty Committee on Financial Recalibration(GFFRC). See the attached handout with data/graphics.
During this presentation, Gary reported on UA trends in hiring of tenure-track faculty over the past 7 years: UA has declined in the percent of tenure-track faculty hires, reaching its lowest percentage last academic year. In 2022, only 10% of all faculty
hires were tenure track. Gary described the challenges this poses–it is difficult to continue our Research I designation with fewer tenure-track colleagues. Importantly, this trend means that more faculty are provided less job security and, in most instances,
less pay, than tenure-track lines.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">GFFRC made the following recommendations: that the university implement a 3-5 year plan to 1)
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">increase the number and percentage of tenure-track faculty</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">,
2) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">reduce the percentage of part-time faculty</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and
3) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">increase the percentage of career-track faculty on multi-year contracts</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.
**Note that CALES leads all colleges in multi-year contracts. During 2021-2022, Faculty Council worked with CALES leadership to ensure that all eligible career-track faculty receive multi-year contracts. This should be happening across all CALES units; if
it is not, please reach out to your council representatives or your faculty senators. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400;">The recording of the full Faculty Senate meeting has not yet been posted, but when it is, you may view it by at this link (scroll down to “meeting recordings”):</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/participate/faculty-senate" id="OWAaf0720f5-916c-ef41-8be3-4f742c805b95" class="OWAAutoLink" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/participate/faculty-senate</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400;">Our next Faculty Senate meeting is Monday, November 6th, 3-5pm. To attend virtually, you can register here:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_adbLj2jQTia64VIWYa4GsA" id="OWAe7ac848a-f4fa-de4c-7b20-c3e3d72586fa" class="OWAAutoLink" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_adbLj2jQTia64VIWYa4GsA</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400;">One more reminder - please attend</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;"> the Fall ALVSCE Town Hall, Tuesday, Oct. 17th from 10-11:30
in ENR2, Room S107 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400;">(can also be watched online). </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400;">As always, please reach out to us with additional questions and follow-ups. This can be via email or via our anonymous qualtrics survey:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a4vcRICRZwxfebc" id="OWAec24db91-83bd-497d-4da2-1a069419bd20" class="OWAAutoLink" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a4vcRICRZwxfebc</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400;">Katie, Tim, & Bobby</span></p>
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