Archive of 2019-20 Issues

Summer 2020 Negotiations

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Archive of 2020 Updates

Vote of Confidence/ No Confidence (December 2019)

The USFFA membership called for a Vote of Confidence/No Confidence in Provost Don Heller. Petitions signed by 95 USFFA members and certified by the Executive Board on November 20, 2019 called on the USFFA to administer a confidential vote of our membership on this question. The vote began on December 4, 2019.

Arguments Pro/Con

The following statements have been submitted to the USFFA Executive Board. We post them in the spirit of providing members with different perspectives and evidence to weigh. Please note that USFFA has neither taken a position in support of, nor in opposition to, any of these statements, and we list them in the order in which we received them:

• Rationale for a Vote of No Confidence

• Provost Don Heller's response to the Vote of No Confidence petition

• Letter in support of No Confidence

Related Documents

• Vote of Confidence/ No Confidence Fact Sheet

• USFFA Procedures for Vote of Confidence/ No Confidence

• Ballot Point Security

Results

• Announcement of Results (12/22/19)

• Update on Vote (1/24/20)

Foghorn Coverage

• No confidence: Provost Heller subject of faculty petition (11/19/19)

• USFFA overwhelmingly votes ‘no confidence’ in Heller (1/20/20)