From: Richard DeWitt [rdewitt@mail.fairfield.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 1:35 PM
To: 'Dewitt, Richard'
Subject: FW: Governance Changes to Budget Committee
 


From: Richard DeWitt [mailto:rdewitt@mail.fairfield.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:41 PM
To: 'Scheraga, Carl'
Cc: 'Preli, Rona'; 'Dewitt, Richard'
Subject: RE: Governance Changes to Budget Committee


Dear Carl,
What we requested in our email was entirely standard material--exactly the material we would have expected to have been included in your original email. When a committee sends a recommnedation to the Council, it is standard for the committee to provide this sort of information.
 
So again, would you please send the information relevant to the recommendation to us?
 
Also, importantly--part of what you say below suggests that you heard something about what took place while the Council was in executive sesssion. Such material is confidential, and should not have been communicated to anyone outside of that session. So if you did hear something about that session, it needs to be kept confidential.
 
Regards,
Rick
 
 


From: Scheraga, Carl [mailto:CScheraga@fairfield.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:55 AM
To: Dewitt, Richard
Subject: RE: Governance Changes to Budget Committee
Importance: High

Dear Rick,

 

I have just ascertained that prior to sending me this e-mail, the Academic Council was well aware of the process by which the opinion of the faculty members on the Budget Committee was obtained. Given the tone of the e-mail, I feel I need the opinion of legal counsel and administrators, particularly with regard to the process outlined in the faculty handbook appendix, as to how to respond both to the Academic Counsel and the general faculty. When I have been informed as to how to proceed, I will communicate further.

 

Carl A. Scheraga, Ph.D.
Professor of Bus. Strategy & Technology Mgt.  
Department of Management
Dolan School of Business
Extension: 2419

From: Richard DeWitt [mailto:rdewitt@mail.fairfield.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:13 AM
To: Scheraga, Carl
Cc: Preli, Rona
Subject: RE: Governance Changes to Budget Committee

 

Dear Carl,

 

We are puzzled by your email. The AC EC does intend to communicate with the faculty representatives to the Budget Committee on this issue, but we have not done so yet. How did this issue come to your attention? Can you send us the communication that brought this to your attention, the communications that you had with the other faculty representatives of the Budget Committee on this topic, any documents you considered (e.g., the memo we sent to the President on this topic), minutes of meetings at which this was discussed (or records of email discussions since this was done by email).

 

Our concern is with process re AC business and the appropriate conduct of AC business. For someone to suggest business to the faculty representatives on the Budget committee, when that business is being processed by the AC EC seems inappropriate. We could be wrong, but we need to see the documentation to decide how to proceed.

 

Sincerely,
Rick


From: Scheraga, Carl [mailto:CScheraga@fairfield.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:57 AM
To: Preli, Rona; Dewitt, Richard
Subject: Governance Changes to Budget Committee
Importance: High

Ed Deak has just contacted me and said this was fine.

 

Carl A. Scheraga, Ph.D.
Professor of Bus. Strategy & Technology Mgt.  
Department of Management
Dolan School of Business
Extension: 2419

From: Scheraga, Carl
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 8:25 AM
To: Preli, Rona; Dewitt, Richard
Subject: Governance Changes to Budget Committee
Importance: High

 

Dear Rona and Rick,

 

We have not been able to reach Ed Deak to comment on the issue, however, Paul Caster and myself completely endorse the proposal to 1) add the Chair of the Faculty Salary Committee and 2) the Chair of the Educational Planning Committee to the University Budget Committee. The addition of the Chair of the Faculty Salary Committee has long been advocated by faculty members of the University Budget Committee and was part of the intent in having Carl elected to both the Faculty Salary Committee and the University Budget Committee two years ago. The addition of the Chair of the Educational Planning Committee to the University Budget Committee, in fact, reflects a two year conversation between the Executive Vice-President and the Educational Planning Committee as to the role of this committee in the educational strategic planning process. It is in the same spirit as the elevation of the position of Academic Vice President to Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs with the intention of highlighting the preeminent importance of the Academic Division to the University mission statement.

 

Sincerely,

 

Carl Scheraga