I just received word that the FIU Faculty Senate unanimously passed the following resolution today:
The Faculty Senate of Florida International University expresses its support for the Faculty Senate of Florida State University in its opposition to a fatally flawed and non-transparent presidential search process, and in its call for an extension of the application deadline to September, for consideration only of applicants with strong academic credentials, and for the Board of Trustees of FSU to give strong consideration to the votes of faculty and students on the presidential search committee.
I'd like to personally thank the FIU faculty for the strong support in our quest for a fair, open, ethical, and transparent search. This means a lot to us.
The UFF-FSU also sent out a press statement today regarding our petition to reset the search; the petition has more than 1,400 names. You can find the statement on our website, uff-fsu.org.
