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February 16,2007
News
Scene I NT Da ly 3
Faculty, students
complai n to panel
By Daniel Davis
Contributing Writer
The peer review team for aca-
demic affairs heard complaints
from faculty and students Thursday
at the open forum meeting.
Ronald Henry, provost and vice
president of academic affairs at
Georgia State University, and Rod-
ney Erickson, executive provost
and vice president of Pennsylvania
State University, made up a team to
research issues concerning NT stu-
dents and faculty.
"We intend on providing Presi-
dent Bataille with comments and
recommendations," Erickson said.
Their question was whether NT
is a student-centered university.
Faculty is concerned with the lack
of recognition of excellence and the
small number of tenures awarded
every year according to John Booth
of the political science faculty.
"Basically, the faculty is upset
about several years of disregarding
of faculty prerogatives in promo-
tion, tenure, recruitment and policy
making," Booth said. "Faculty in-
put has been ignored and over rid-
den. This has made people really
angry."
An example of this problem oc-
curred when Dan Peak, former pro-
fessor of the business computer in-
formation sciences at NT, sued the
school for being denied tenure.
Other topics discussed were the
teacher to student ratio, lack of
money for programs, limited class-
room space and departmental col-
laboration.
A faculty member said the pop-
ulation of students increased 40
percent, while the faculty only in-
creased seven percent between the
years of 1997 and 2006.
Difficulty in scheduling upper-
level classes was one of two con-
cerns of Andrea Robledo, San An-
gelo graduate student,
"I have two concerns," Robledo
said. "One is the offering of classes.
Some classes are only offered once
a year and there are students who
have had to wait another year before
graduating because of this."
Robledo said she wishes faculty
was more diverse.
"I wish the faculty more mirrored
the student population as far as di-
versity goes," Robledo said. "To me,
in an institution of higher education
where you're supposed to be learn-
ing a diverse array of ideas, you re-
ally need that input from faculty."
Lawmakers: state
should educate
parents about HPV
AUSTIN (AP) - A group of law-
makers who oppose Gov. Rick Per-
ry's anti-cancer vaccine mandate
want the state to instead produce
and distribute a brochure about the
inoculation and the sexually trans-
mitted disease it fights.
"We want families to know the
facts," state Rep. Dennis Bonnen
said. "No one here is against a
family studying the facts for them-
selves and deciding this is the right
thing to do. ... What we don't want
to do is tell them that we know bet-
ter than them."
Bonnen is co-sponsoring a bill
that would direct the Texas De-
partment of State Health Services
to produce and distribute infor-
mational materials about vaccines
against the human papillomavirus,
or HPV.
New Jersey-based Merck & Co.'s
Gardasil vaccine is currently the
only HPV vaccine on the market.
n against thestrains of HPV that
cause most cases of cervical can-
cer and genital warts.
While some states are debating
requiring the vaccine, others are
considering similar educational
programs. Lawmakers in Utah,
however, rejected a proposal amid
concerns that taxpayer money
shouldn't be used to promote a
drug company's product.
Bonnen and two of the other
sponsors of the bill insisted the
brochure wouldn't amount to an
advertisement for Merck.
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