April 20, 2007
Minutes, Annual Meeting, Louisiana State Conference, American Association of University Professors The meeting took place on April 20, 2007, on the Tulane University campus and was held concurrently with a meeting of the Association of Louisiana Faculty Senates. President Al Burstein called the meeting to order at 12:10 p.m. Attending were thirty-five faculty members. President Burstein then introduced a panel of representatives from several Louisiana universities to give updates on their institutions’ situations. They were Lynn Koplitz, Loyola University; Linda Carroll, Tulane University; William Stewart, Southern University, New Orleans and President of ALFS; Iris Lindberg, LSU Health Sciences Center; Jocelyn Thomas, University of New Orleans; Thomas Bonner, Xavier University; Louise Bostic, Southeastern Louisiana University; Mark Kuss, Our Lady of Holy Cross; Dominique Homberger, LSU A&M (in Baton Rouge). The reports from New Orleans-area institutions, while they varied in detail, shared a common theme of an ongoing deleterious effect of post-Katrina unilateral governance by administrators on current shared governance, with administrators continuing to make either single-handedly or with very little faculty role decisions that normally would have full faculty participation. For the state institutions, the matter of the future of furloughed faculty members will soon reach a critical point, as it…