The BOR have revised their proposals from earlier this fall. Here are the revised proposals. I reproduce his comments:
"Gary and Loren,
I am forwarding copies of the Board's revised offer for a contract. This is substantially the same as the earlier version, but it does contain a few significant revisions.
A series of provisions have been added to address the situation of librarians. Differentiating between professorial and lecturer ranks renders inevitable the restructuring of library ranks. The division of ranks creates fundamental differences in expectations for involvement in shared governance and tenure. Moreover, it creates a real opportunity to relieve librarians of the uncertainties that are incidental to reviewing their performance under standards created for teaching or research faculty members and under a regime that allots a fixed time to earn tenure or to be terminated.
Throughout the academy, librarians have played and continue to play pivotal roles in academic planning, even as the nature of their work and the nature of their contract status has changed. They have a rightful claim for clear acknowledgement of their roles in academic planning and academic support of instruction and research. They have a rightful expectation for clarity as to their contractual expectations. We hope that the new proposals go some measure towards accomplishing that.
Procedures involving nonrenewal of tenure track contract, denial of promotion and denial of tenure have been revised to avoid duplicative informal procedures and to specify the events that trigger grievance deadlines. Provisions involving Step 5 of thegrievance procedures were also revised to clarify that deadlines were triggered by working days.
The remainder of the changes involved, as best I can presently recall, only minor matters of style and form.
James F. Shekleton
General Counsel"
