Two weeks after Ohio University's Faculty Senate passed a resolution asking for one more voting member on the committee that oversees Intercollegiate Athletics, Student Senate will vote on a resolution to maintain the current structure of the committee.
The resolution states that, according to the rules of shared governance, adding another voting faculty member to the committee would skew the committee in favor of faculty members because they would then hold a majority. The committee is currently comprised of 14 voting members, including seven faculty and three students.
If they're going to add any spot
they should add another student said Student Senate President Robert Leary.
The Intercollegiate Athletics Committee is an advisory group that provides recommendations to President Roderick McDavis, according to the committee's website. Two of the students on the committee are undergraduates and one is a graduate student, appointed by their respective senates. The faculty members are appointed by McDavis.
When a decision is being made every constituent group should have a say
said Andrew Burnette, senator for East Green, who wrote the resolution. By increasing faculty
it's marginalizing everyone else's role.
Burnette added that he was bothered by the Faculty Senate resolution's title.
The title of their resolution is 'A Resolution to Enable Shared Governance
' Burnette said. They're doing the opposite.
The resolution also asks for clearer guidelines for appointing the two faculty members who serve on the committee as representatives for the NCAA, Burnette said. Currently, McDavis appoints the representatives, who do have a voting position on the committee, but there are no clear guidelines for how to choose these members.
(The resolutions asks) for those representatives to have a more clear selection process
Burnette said. I've asked around about how the representatives are chosen
and no one seems to have an answer.
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