Monday, September 14, 2009

Administration's Q/A page has been taken down.

In a phone call from staff in the office of communications at UCHC, it was requested that the Q/A text from the administration's recently posted site be removed from this blog. The administration has taken down their site and text in a joint decision between Storrs and Farmington offices. I have a copy of the original Q/A text available by personal request should anyone want to read it.
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  1. Bruce LiangSeptember 18, 2009 at 10:42 AM

    Hi friends and colleagues:



    I would like to voice my opinion as a faculty member of this community on the issue of faculty union. I believe that unionization of faculty would bring many undesirable consequences with very little positive. Here are my reasons.



    We all take pride in coming to work and would like to see our school rise further. Unionization of faculty at a couple of medical schools in the country has not achieved this goal for them, and if anything, has caused those schools to decline. I do not believe that we should aspire to be like them.
    Already facing a unionized environment here, further unionization will add to the complexity and layering of our professional lives and will detract from what we come here to do.
    It will mean much difficulty in recruiting good people.
    Many of us may choose not to stay because of the environment this faculty union would create.
    In the end, it will mean a decline rather than a rising of our wonderful SOM.
    Union would prevent the award of incentive to those who deserve it. If the system becomes less competitive, there will be less funding in the system. This means that the only way one gets a raise in salary will occur at the expense of layoff of others. It is a false sense of security.
    Since I joined the faculty here nearly 8 years ago, the administration has successfully represented us downtown, even in the current and immediate past years with deficiency appropriations downtown etc. I believe that it will continue to do so. The attempt to unionize the faculty will be divisive and polarizing for us.
    We already have had elected councils that are doing their jobs-even with the current proposed merger with HH, members of councils and now all faculty will have a chance to weigh in and make changes as the process unfolds. Unionization of faculty will not add to what we have in the councils and will mean additional layer.


    Thanks for your time in reading this.



    Bruce

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