Faculty to vote on Herbert review

The agenda committee of the Bloomington Faculty Council announced a list of resolutions Friday to be considered by the faculty at a mass meeting Tuesday.\nThe most controversial resolutions concern the timely appointment of a new IU-Bloomington chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs and a review of IU President Adam Herbert by the IU board of trustees.\nAnother resolution calls on the IU board of trustees to appoint College of Arts and Sciences Dean Kumble Subbaswamy as IUB chancellor. \nThe resolutions will be discussed and voted upon by faculty and associate faculty of the IUB campus.\nThe meeting was announced last week after growing faculty criticism of Herbert's performance prompted 133 professors to sign a petition for a mass meeting of the Bloomington faculty.\nThe resolution asking for a review of Herbert's performance cites "the president's repeated failure to address in a timely manner important matters that come before him," and a lack of visibility at public events as reasons for needing a review.\n"Many allegations have been made concerning the president," said Fred Cate, a law professor, who will introduce the resolution. "The first step is to determine if they are true." \nCate said it is the responsibility of the trustees to conduct such a review.\n"It is in the best interest of the University and the president that a careful review be conducted," said Cate, noting that the quickest way for the president to clear his name is to have the trustees conduct a review.\nAnother resolution to be considered at the meeting will involve the selection of a new IUB chancellor. IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said it is doubtful Subbaswamy will be appointed chancellor, even if the resolution to have him appointed passes at the faculty meeting.\nMacIntyre said the president's decision to continue the search is "final," and that "past candidates are no longer on the table."\nSubbaswamy was one of several final candidates for the position until Herbert decided to restart the search two weeks ago.\nInterim IUB Chancellor Ken Gros Louis said it is the president's prerogative to turn down candidates, and Subbaswamy might not have been the right choice.\n"(Herbert and Subbaswamy) really have such different temperaments, there's not good chemistry between them. If the chemistry is not right, then he can't be successful in his job," he said.\nBut professors say they are right to criticize the president's decision.\n"Academic communities live by frank speech; we question freely and academic leadership understands this as a constructive part of an educational setting," East Asian Languages and Cultures and Philosophy Chair Bob Eno said in an e-mail. "President Herbert is himself very much an academic, and I'm sure he anticipated that his decision would result in much faculty comment."\nEno will present a resolution urging Herbert and the search committee to find a chancellor who can "provide focused leadership" and has IUB's interests at heart. \nThe final resolution asks the faculty to assess the impact of IU's current organizational structure as a whole, and whether it is beneficial to the Bloomington campus. Some professors said IUB is administrated as one part of a larger university and that there has been a "general decline" in the level of quality at IUB.\nMacIntyre said Herbert "would be entitled to attend the meeting" Tuesday and is "discussing the question with faculty members and members of the administration"