Faculty resolutions officially pass

The IU-Bloomington faculty voted in favor a special review of IU President Adam Herbert by more than a three to one margin.\nThe official results of the vote were announced to the Bloomington faculty Tuesday.\nThe resolution is one of two resolutions to be sent to the IU board of trustees.\nThe other asks for Bloomington campus considerations to be the primary factor in the hiring of a new Bloomington chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs.\nThe final vote count for the resolution asking for a review of Herbert was 754 in favor, 229 not in favor, and 75 abstaining.\nThe final tally for the resolution concerning the Bloomington chancellor was passed with 924 in favor and 93 not in favor, with 35 faculty members abstaining.\nA total of 1060 voting members of the faculty (67.3% of eligible faculty members) voted for or against at least one resolution.\nThe resolutions were presented at a Nov. 15 special meeting of the Bloomington faculty -- the first of its kind since 1986.\nSeveral other resolutions were scheduled to be presented, but were withdrawn before coming to a vote. One resolution asked for the immediate nomination of College of Arts and Sciences Kumble Subbaswamy as Bloomington chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs. Another was a simple recognition of Subbaswamy's service to the school.\nThe special meeting of the faculty came after increasing criticism of Herbert prompted 131 professors to petition the Bloomington Faculty Council for a special meeting.\nThe criticism began after Herbert announced that the search for a new IUB chancellor and vice president for academic affairs would be continued after a 10-month search failed to find any acceptable candidates.\nHerbert was given a Jan. 1 deadline to find a new chancellor by the board of trustees at a Nov. 4 board meeting. The board unanimously passed a resolution in support of Herbert's decision, but noted that finding a new chancellor is a priority.