Faculty Senate Committee On Medical Issues
On August 2012, the University of Miami Faculty Senate Ad Hoc committee on medical issues presented its report to UM president, Donna Shalala, and to Dean Pascal Goldschmidt. The committee reported that interviewed senior faculty members and high level administrators described a widespread fear of the administration due to retaliations against faculty that criticized the administration. Interviewed faculty also indicated adverse effects of staff reductions on the Miller School faculty’s ability to deliver care and to conduct both basic and clinical research. Faculty also stated that the pressure to produce clinical income is compromising the academic environment by discouraging and devaluing research and, as a consequence, morale was exceedingly low. The committee recommended a formal senate resolution to urge the Miller School and its Faculty Council to work together to address the highly destructive influence of the absence of a collegial environment. On January 2013, the Miami Herald reported that an estimated 700 of the 1200 faculty at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have signed a petition complaining about the school’s leadership. A copy of the petition obtained by The Herald stated that faculty decried the “failed leadership” of Dean Pascal Goldschmidt and Chief Operating Officer Jack Lord, stating that “We want to make clear that the faculty has lost confidence in the ability of these men to lead the school.”
Read more about this topic: Pascal J. Goldschmidt
Famous quotes containing the words faculty, senate, committee, medical and/or issues:
“UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this faculty as a ‘language acquisition device,’ an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed—and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn’s election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)
“They said I’d never get you back again.
I tell you what you’ll never really know:
all the medical hypothesis
that explained my brain will never be as true as these
struck leaves letting go.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)