Within minutes of the Board of Trustees vote, the university had expunged the entire University Senate website, deleting decades of meeting minutes, faculty evaluations of the president, and more.
Truly reprehensible.
Today the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, being led by the nose by President Eli Capilouto, finalized the dissolution of the University Senate, putting the final nail in the coffin of shared governance.
Reprehensible but not surprising. They’ve shown everyone who they are. They are not gracious well meaning people. The corollary is never store your cv or other important docs you cannot recover on a server controlled by someone else—especially your employer—because you can lose them in an instant.
Faculty senate materials would have all been public. They are a quasi-legislative body, so the website’s gonna have the records for the faculty at large.
This is corporate mind. No commitment to, much less love for, academic principles. Just a power grab. It's a sign that the Uni will be ruled without ethical standards for the higher good (learning, teaching, communicating).
I have the impression that maintaining and preserving corporate archives is a big project, needs extra resources and staffing dedicated to that job, at a cost many will not commit to. Even though 1+ decades of historical knowledge wd be useful.
Does that mean that people will just improvise decisions that are not explicitly covered in published regulations? With no presidents, what could go wrong..?
