The A&S Council unanimously voted the below resolution yesterday in opposition to the Jacobs' reorganization. 

- Don Wedding, UT-AAUP Grievance Chair

Resolved that the Arts and Sciences Council has no confidence in the reorganization plan proposed by President Jacobs on September 24.  Its most serious problems are that it:

• was developed without input from elected faculty representatives

• was developed with little input from departmental chairs

• was developed without input from students

• was presented without calculating the costs

• will make interdisciplinary cooperation more difficult

• will set the sciences, languages & social sciences and arts in competition for resources

• will threaten the writing across the curriculum program

• will harm international preparation by threatening the study of foreign languages

• will endanger re-accreditation in 2012 by the North Central Higher Learning Commission

• lacks data to show it will improve learning 

• lacks clear goals, objectives and benchmarks to assess its success or failure