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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In my last communication to you, many important,
unanswered questions were asked. Perhaps some of the answers are included in
the statements below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In the statements below, I use myself as
the example because I have the needed information. I feel certain there are
those amongst us where the numbers would be even more alarming.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>From the time of my employment at Texas
A&M University-Commerce for the Fall 2003 up through this summer, I have earned
46 semester hours of overload teaching. For every one of those 46 semester
hours of overload teaching, I was told by the Administration I would receive
the equal amount of reduced teaching in the future as compensation. As a result
of my overload teaching, the Mathematics Department continues to have a masters
program. Without my overload teaching, the Mathematics masters program would
today be history. As a result of my overload teaching, students were able to
graduate one, and in some cases, two long-semesters earlier than otherwise. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Let’s do the arithmetic: 46/12 = 3
5/6, with a savings to the university in access of $100,000. Thus, by the
Administration’s own stated, well-known, well-understood, long-used
overload procedure, I have earned three long-semesters of full-pay with no
teaching and 10/12 of a fourth long-semester with full-pay and no teaching. How
did the Administration use the savings created by the overload teaching? Long
unfilled positions within the academic departments remained unfilled, class
sizes ballooned upward creating much more work for faculty members, and more
overload teaching was required of the faculty. At the same time, many new
administrative positions were created and filled by highly paid individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Now, in a 13<sup>th</sup> hour maneuver, at
a time when many faculty members are known not to be here, the Administrative timing
of the 13<sup>th</sup> hour maneuver has been used as justification to force the
new overload procedure upon the faculty. The new Administrative overload
procedure totally vetoes the previous, long-known, long-used Administrative
overload procedure robbing the faculty of all their procedurally-guaranteed,
hard-earned credit for performing work beyond their job description and as
required by the Administration. As witnessed by the new Administrative
overload procedure, the Administration has absolutely no appreciation for a
faculty member or for the many hours of past overload teaching by the faculty
member. Robbing the faculty of their past hard-earned, procedurally-guaranteed
overload credits was not sufficient for the Administration in their new
overload procedure. Under the new, forced Administrative overload procedure, faculty
members will forever be robbed of earned overload credit. These facts don’t
seem fair to me. Do they seek fair to you? Is such an action by the
Administration legal?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The statements above are sent by me as a
concerned faculty member, a concerned citizen of the State of <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State>,
and a concerned citizen of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> as an exercise of my Constitutional Second
Amendment guarantee of free speech.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Charles
Dorsett</span></font></st1:PersonName><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
coseafaculty-bounces@tamuc.edu [mailto:coseafaculty-bounces@tamuc.edu] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Charles
Dorsett</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 12, 2013 10:18
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Coseafaculty@tamuc.edu</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Linda.Openshaw@tamu.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [COSEAfaculty] CoSea
overload policy</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As usual for me, on Wednesday morning, I checked my email to
see if there was anything requiring my attention for the day. There
wasn’t. At approximately 4:20 p.m., after my day slowed down, I checked
my email again. An important College meeting that I would have made time to
attend had been announced and had already ended without me even knowing there
was a meeting. I checked and I was not the only faculty member not to know
about the called meeting prior to the meeting. The first meeting was scheduled
for a time I had a class to teach.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As I stated earlier, I have taught many overloads in the
past. I never complained, but the Department Head that assigned me the
overloads recognized the unfairness of the repeated overload assignments and
repeatedly promised me reduced teaching loads in the future in return for the
many overloads taught by me. There were others like me. I never asked, but my
Department Heads told me there was no money to pay for the overload teaching
and that I would have to receive credit for my extra work with reduced
workloads in the future. However, I am now told by a reliable source that there
is at least one high ranking administrator at this University that is being
paid extremely well for teaching one or more classes outside his assigned
administrative duties during the time the class or classes are taught. If my
source is correct, there has been a dual workload policy at our University; one
for administrators that are paid handsomely when they teach and one for faculty
with only promises of future consideration which is still to come, but now
vetoed by the College overload policy. Will the University continue to have a
dual workload policy? If not, an administrator, who has no teaching within his
or her job description, will receive no pay for teaching a class, and, at the
same time, without a teaching requirement, accumulate no overload credits. If
the dual system is ended, do you think there will be an administrator on campus
without required teaching duties that will continue to teach classes?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is there fairness in the workload procedures in the
different Colleges? With the Administration waiting to the 13<sup>th</sup> hour
to involve the faculty, there are many important questions left unanswered. The
workload policy for the College has been identified as a product of the Faculty
Senate, but the proposed overload procedure for our College, which is now
reality, is so different from the proposed Faculty Senate overload procedure
that the Faculty Senate should not in any way be included. Why did the
Administration wait until the 13<sup>th</sup> hour when many of the faculty
members are not even here and those that were here are busy trying to squeeze
16 weeks of work into less than five weeks to finally involve the faculty?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As of now Mathematics is down three positions for the Fall.
I suspect Mathematics is not unique in this matter. If a faculty member was to
accumulate three overload credits during the Fall, would the Administration
cancel a full class to allow the faculty member to use the earned overload
credits or would the faculty member be required to continue teaching 12 or more
hours? Overload credits earned by a faculty member, but not used during the
Spring, together with overload credits earned by the faculty member during the
Spring would have to be used the next Fall or be lost by the faculty member.
Would the Administration cancel full classes and send students home or to
another university to allow the faculty member use of earned overload credits
or would the administration take away the earned overload credits, as it has
done in the past, and require the faculty member to continue to teach 12 to 14
hours? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Under the now College overload policy faculty members will
be robbed of compensation for their work. Is robbing employees of earned
compensation, either past or future, ever a good thing or does it only destroy
all that is good? Once trust is destroyed, how do you restore it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have witnessed an incredibly productive, hard-working
faculty here at Texas A&M University-Commerce and have been proud to be a
part of it. As things stand now, I worry about their future and the future of
this University.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Charles Dorsett</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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