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The Faculty Senate took issue with a plan to reduce some online classes from 16 weeks to eight weeks.<\/p>\n
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The Old Dominion University Faculty Senate voted 41 to\u00a07 Tuesday that it has no confidence in the university president, provost and vice president after administrators announced an initiative that would cut the length of some online courses in half, The Virginian-Pilot <\/em>reported.<\/em><\/p>\n The Forward-Focused Digital Transformation Initiative would reduce some online classes from 16 weeks to eight weeks but still charge students the same amount in tuition. For many faculty members, this was the final straw after months of feeling the administration no longer listened to their input or respected shared governance, said Senate chairman Corrin Allen, an associate professor in the School of Speech-Language Pathology.<\/p>\n \u201cThe decision for a vote of no confidence is not something anyone takes lightly,\u201d Allen told the Pilot<\/em>. \u201cThe faculty really regrets that it came to this. We have tried along the way to really encourage more open communication with leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n In December, the board told the Senate executive committee that it will \u201cnot allow this initiative to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe faculty voice is important, but, as a board, we will not agree to slowing down or stopping an initiative that requires adaptability, resilience and work. I encourage you and your colleagues to roll up your sleeves and be productive partners in both changing and shaping the future of a university that deserves nothing but the best,\u201d P. Murry Pitts, rector of the Board of Visitors, wrote in his December email to the committee. \u201cThe reality is that the world is changing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Faculty Senate took issue with a plan to reduce some online classes from 16 weeks to eight weeks. roonierella\/ iStock\/Getty Images Plus The Old Dominion University Faculty Senate voted 41 to\u00a07 Tuesday that it has no confidence in the university president, provost and vice president after administrators announced an initiative that would cut the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[7130,23747,3350,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-46567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-confidence","9":"tag-dominion","10":"tag-faculty","11":"tag-vote"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}