[Plsfaculty] Time-sensitive: Addendum to Phase II document

[Betsy Arnold]

Hi Bentley,

I'm sorry for sending this to the whole faculty -- but just to complete the
conversation: I'm happy to work with your feedback. Therefore, let me
please amend my previous note to the faculty, and ask that if you are
comfortable with the addendum being submitted as is to Dean Burgess, please
indicate this by emailing me with 'yes' by 11am on Tuesday (15 May). If you
have not yet weighed in on the addendum (but contributed to the draft) I
still need to hear from you to register your vote.

If the majority of our faculty (>50%) responds with 'yes' I will submit it
in its current format.

I'm sorry to create confusion and apologize if I put anyone in the
uncomfortable position of needing express dissent directly. Please make
your perspective clear if you do support this addendum by indicating to me
that you do. I'll share the numerical results of the vote.

Thanks, all. Looking forward to moving forward.

Best,
Betsy


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Bentley Fane <bfane at email.arizona.edu>wrote:

> >
> >
> > RY1: I agree, a straw poll is needed to go with 'majority.' I have not
> heard any discordant views and have received positive responses from >30%
> of the SPLS faculty so far today. I made it clear in my note that no
> response is a yes vote.
>
>
> Betsy, your email stated: "If I do not hear from you, I will assume that
> you are comfortable with this document being added to the public record."
> Being comfortable with a document does not mean one agrees with the
> document. Thus, in this case and really in all future cases, "no response"
> should never be a   "yes vote."  It is not even an  abstention - one must
> vote "abstention."  It is a "vote not casted."
>
>
>
> > However, I am hoping that a majority (>50%) of our faculty will respond
> positively, and if so I plan to keep the phrasing in there. If not, I'll
> remove it where flagged at RY1 and RY2. I'm sensitive to getting that right.
>
>
> Thus, I suggest 100% accuracy. "No response" should be reported as "no
> response"  without any interpretation of any kind.
>
>
>
> On May 14, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Betsy Arnold wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Ramin -- much appreciated.
> >
> > A few quick thoughts:
> >
> > RY1: I agree, a straw poll is needed to go with 'majority.' I have not
> heard any discordant views and have received positive responses from >30%
> of the SPLS faculty so far today. I made it clear in my note that no
> response is a yes vote. However, I am hoping that a majority (>50%) of our
> faculty will respond positively, and if so I plan to keep the phrasing in
> there. If not, I'll remove it where flagged at RY1 and RY2. I'm sensitive
> to getting that right.
> >
> > RY3: The document says that the retirement of VanEtten and McClure will
> negatively impact our ability to provide a graduate program in plant
> pathology, in that it leaves...[six faculty]. Plant pathology is a diverse
> field, as demonstrated by programs throughout the country, and work by all
> of us listed in the addendum corresponds to national directions of plant
> path research in the modern sense. Thus, I prefer to correct the statement
> as written in the addendum.
> >
> > RY4: Corrected; thanks! Clearly had my head somewhere else on that.
> >
> > RY5: I am sorry, but I am not clear on your meaning here. Let me try:
> The document says that we lack a critical mass of faculty that work on
> plant stress adaptation, and lists a few Extension folks and then says that
> we have only one research faculty member (Karen). Karen's role is correct.
> However, those faculty listed in the addendum self-identify as working on
> plant stress adaptation, and it's inappropriate to name some but not others
> when some are listed. This is the motivation to expand this list.
> >
> > Best,
> > Betsy
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>


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A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold
School of Plant Sciences
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721

http://arnoldlab.net
arnold at ag.arizona.edu
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