FHSU deans expressing she wants to cut costs to the university

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“We really tried to take an approach that isn’t taking a stance on this,” Tadlock said, “The [Hays Daily News] article that came out, I know a lot of people felt that there was maybe a lack of voice for the student body, so they were looking for an avenue to express their support of the president as we’re going through this.”

“I’ve not yet read [the article], I’ve heard it’s pretty extensive though,” Brock Arvesen, FHSU Freshmen said.

The root to this shit-storm goes back to a FHSU faculty senate meeting last week between the faculty senate members and members of the Kansas Board of Regents. The Hays Daily News attended the event in a moment of serendipity, published an explosive article Friday along with a follow up for the Sunday paper.

Miller told the Daily that Martin met with . Two ways she asia mobile number list wants to do that is by increasing maximum class sizes, commonly known as caps, and reducing the number of overload classes that a faculty member can teach.

In an October 16th email, Martin argued in favor of reducing overloads as a cost savings, according to an all faculty email written by the FHSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, a labor union created to ensure academic freedom for faculty members.

“Overloads should be used for an unexpected surge in enrollment, to cover unexpected illnesses, and/or to meet course needs/demands in highly specified fields where adjuncts many not be found,” Martin wrote, “as a practice, overloads should not be assigned to courses where we know demand will exist semester after semester, year after year. Adjuncts should be hired allowing our full time faculty to instruct expert-based courses.”