UTK Faculty Senate Past-President's Page for 2007-2008

Faculty Senate Home Page

I will be posting to this page my correspondence with various administrators, the Senate leadership, the leadership of other UT campuses and individual faculty that I consider to be of general interest. I will include written responses when those are available.

University of Tennessee Mission Statement

Original email on Mission statement sent by President Petersen August 9, 2007

Request for comments from Chancellor Crabtree on Mission statement sent by President Petersen August 15, 2007

My response to Chancellor Crabtree's request for comments on the Mission statement sent by President Petersen August 15, 2007

Brief summary of Mission Statements from peer universities August 15, 2007

Note to faculty regarding request by Chancellor Crabtree for comments on Mission statement August 15, 2007

University of Tennessee Information Technology

Preliminary Draft of Review of OIT UT by Burns and Eschbach June 2007

Review of IT at UT by Studman and Kemper (also known as the IT@UT Cooperative Study) Dated August 2007 but not released to the Faculty Senate until Dec. 11, 2007

My comments on the Review of IT at UT by Studman and Kemper (also known as the IT@UT Coopertive Study) Sent by email to Senate President David Patterson on Dec. 11, 2007

Minus Grades Implementation

Brief Report distributed at November 2007 Faculty Senate meeting November 2007

Complete Report on impact of Minus Grade implementation on course grade point average March 26, 2008

Faculty Salary and Gender Analysis

Report distributed at April 2008 Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting April 2008

Letters to President Petersen

Note to President John Petersen as follow-up to my comments to him after the Faculty Senate Open meeting of January 22, 2008 January 23, 2008

Research Funding Issues

Letter to Charles Wharton of the UT Board of Trustees regarding contrbution of different UT units to grant and contract revenue February 1, 2008