QUESTIONER:	DATE ASKED	FORWARDED TO:
There are no questions carried forward from the February meeting.

WRITTEN RESPONSES

QUESTIONER:	DATE ASKED	WRITTEN RESPONSE:
Brian Striar	December 5, 2002	David Kline Interim President

QUESTION SYNOPSIS
With the expiration of the contract, which mandates collegiality, will the administration no longer be able to take disciplinary action against faculty whom it deems uncollegial?
What is included under the definition of "misconduct" for just cause for termination?
In the Florida Trend magazine, UNF tied with UF for highest student-teacher ratio. Is UNF's claim to offer better ratios not true?

(Written follow-up) I am not inquiring into the permeative properties and penumbras
of collegiality as they may pertain to the many dimensions constituting the academic organism. I am asking a legal question: Section 4 of Article 5 of the Contract, which mandates collegiality, is not included in the corresponding Chapter 10 of the Faculty Handbook. Does this mean that with the expiration of the Contract next month that
the administration will no longer have the authority to take disciplinary action against faculty whom it deems uncollegial? If the administration will have this authority,
what will be the legal justification for it? The background to this is that the "collegiality clause," as it is called, was added to the contract only several years ago. Prior to that, there was no provision for the administration to discipline faculty for uncollegiality.