NDNU Unites

We are concerned members of the Notre Dame de Namur University community, made up of faculty, students, alumni, and community allies.

NDNU President Judi Greig suddenly terminated the Arts Programs (both visual and performing arts) and the Intensive Liberal Arts Program, without consulting with the faculty. She then laid off four tenured faculty members, and one tenure-track member, leaving the Theater, Modern Languages, Philosophy and Religious Studies Departments without full-time faculty. A sixth tenured faculty member in the Theater Program had been laid off unceremoniously the year before.

Now, more than ever, we need a unified show of support to let the Board of Trustees know that NDNU faculty are unhappy with the administration.

We are concerned members of the Notre Dame de Namur University community, made up of faculty, students, alumni, and community allies.

NDNU President Judi Greig suddenly terminated the Arts Programs (both visual and performing arts) and the Intensive Liberal Arts Program, without consulting with the faculty. She then laid off four tenured faculty members, and one tenure-track member, leaving the Theater, Modern Languages, Philosophy and Religious Studies Departments without full-time faculty. A sixth tenured faculty member in the Theater Program had been laid off unceremoniously the year before.

Now, more than ever, we need a unified show of support to let the Board of Trustees know that NDNU faculty are unhappy with the administration.

NDNU Unites

Tell the trustees you demand accountability, transparency, and a stop to cutting programs and laying off teachers without meeting with faculty or union representatives.

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Dear Board of Trustees Member,
 
I am deeply concerned about the direction and future of NDNU.
 
The faculty expressed “No Confidence” in the current administration and requested a meeting with you to explain the reasons for that vote.  You rebuffed these concerns without hearing them, which is logically unsound and ethically suspect.
 
Your letter to faculty contained multiple factual inaccuracies.  I am now deeply concerned that you are governing with incomplete and inaccurate information and that decisions being made are therefore inherently flawed.  NDNU's very existence as an institution depends upon trustees, administration, faculty, and the community working together to accurately assess and aggressively address the root causes of these problems, and to collaborate on viable changes to support the institution’s future.  
 
I am concerned for the tenured faculty who have been laid off. The courses they taught remain, but will now be taught by underpaid part-timers, who have little job security and less history with the institution.  However, my concerns go further, and are rooted in the poor decisions that have led NDNU to this point.  The cuts in programs have been as thoughtless and destructive as the cuts to faculty.  To end this cycle of deterioration, all must work together.  The students, current and future, who gain so much from the unique programs that NDNU offers, depend on you to do no less.

I urge you to sit down with faculty and work with them to solve NDNU's problems, without unilateral cuts to programs and layoffs to tenured faculty.

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