What aspects of the Draft Academic Council Recommendations for the Academic Continuity Plan are necessary and helpful toward supporting academic continuity?,What aspects of the Draft Academic Council Recommendations for the Academic Continuity Plan are not helpful or are problematic in supporting academic continuity?,"3.	Considering the constituencies you represent, what questions do you have about the Draft Academic Council Recommendations for the Academic Continuity Plan and how it will relate to your work in the event of a strike?"
"I think the policy is fairly clear.  It is a bit wordy, so we may need to make the guidance more accessible to faculty.","See my note above about wordiness.  Also - the instructions on how the emergency grades worked was unclear for me.

The political problems with the policy - i.e. the right to of the President to call for an emergency.  I do think we may want to consider revising the policy at some point to make this authority more clear and transparent (ie. only president may authorize emergency with the vote of the academic council or something).",I think the main concern is regarding our teaching GEs.  Having access to FAQ and clear expectations for faculty in place before any strike happens will be important.
The fact that there is a plan is a really necessary and helpful shift. The language about modality continuity is also useful as well as reminders of FERPA compliance. ,"The most dramatically problematic aspect of the recommendations are the implicit support for the use of replacement instructors of record. As a faculty we cannot fully support our GE colleagues if we are willing to cross the picket line to directly replace them in their suspended job duties during a strike. Offering career instructors, for example, overload pay, only serves to highlight the fact that career instructors, like GEs are woefully underpaid and risks pitting these groups against each other to strengthen the bargaining position of the university. ",
"There is a lot of helpful stuff in there, I don't think it makes much sense to list it all out.","Some aspects feel somewhat unpractical. For example, I don't think it's practical for every IOR to confirm with the unit head or Divisional Dean about all their changes. Also, this is a lot of information, an abridged version that just contains ideas for faculty (and maybe links to the full version) might be helpful, though I bet TEP already has something like this. 

Finally, and most importantly, this document excludes one of the most important aspect of planning: what are our resources? I heard say that the unit heads have been given some formula for overload compensation, but they are not the ones making the plans for individual classes, and the rest of us have not see it. The people making the plans have no insight into how they will be compensated, which is a serious shortcoming. It's insane that this university is so comfortable separating significant workload adjustments from compensation. For example I'm sure the retort to this point will be that compensation is not in the Academic Councils Purview, but I say unless you have a transparent plan for compensating the work, you don't have a plan. Furthermore transparency would make it more obvious what the cost of failed bargaining is, and would prevent the exploitation of employees that don't realize (and/or are not told) that they should be compensated for doing overload work. It's like being given a dinner menu without the prices listed, it's highly incomplete and you are left feeling like you might be getting ripped off. ","Related to my point above, without knowing the compensation for overload work during the strike, the council recommendations are of limited use because one cannot make serious contingency plans. "
,,"I think the main issue is related to if they strike--by being able to re-assign others to provide grades the policy is taking the agency/pressure that the strike is designed to do to pressure the administration in bargaining. Additionally, who are these other faculty that have availability to teach and have the skill set to grade other instructors coursework?"
"Reminding IORs: ""If the IOR, in consultation with the unit head, reasonably determines that the learning outcomes cannot be met even with such adjustments or that such adjustments would lead to an unreasonable amount of work, then the completion of the course may be delayed until the missing instructional or grading work is completed."" I believe this point needs to be highlighted and restated throughout the document.","The document should remind IORs who are within the UA bargaining unit of Article 41, Section 2 of the CBA: In the event of a strike by other employees of the university, bargaining unit faculty members, if requested by the University, will consult about how work which was previously performed by a striking employee will be covered. Any work previously performed by a striking employee assigned to a bargaining unit faculty member shall be considered an overload assignment. Bargaining unit faculty members will not unreasonably refuse to perform such work.",
,Where it is ambiguous regarding the fine line between continuity and doing someone else's job without compensation. ,"What can and can't be asked of you to perform someone else's duties, essentially becoming a scab. "
It is good that faculty can control the academic side of a continuity plan in the case of a campus emergency.,"Emergency grades: Who will do the labor of changing emergency grades (if used) into actual grades? And when will this take place (i.e. Winter term)? If a strike were to happen Week 10, when would the transition between emergency grades to actual grades be determined? What is the procedure for this?

Junior faculty may face unique issues, being torn between the Head (OA), colleagues, and grad students in the event of a strike. Placing the burden of the continuity plan on the ""individual choice"" of faculty places undue stress on junior faculty.

Declaring the state of emergency: unlike a natural disaster such as COVID or a weather related event, not everyone will experience the event of a strike in the same way. Who will declare the state of Emergency? The President of the University represents one of the bargaining units and is not a neutral party.","What processes are being put into place if the strike continues into the winter term? It seems the Academic Continuity Plan is for one term only. 

What about international graduate students? I am concerned that they (like the junior faculty mentioned above) may face unique hardship due to possible health insurance and visa issues. Is this being taken into account in the planning? They are an important part of our academic community.

Thank you for presenting us senators with this survey. I was disappointed that the Academic Continuity Plan was given such little time at our last senate meeting. This survey is appreciated. "
The plan provides a lot of details about what we should do in case the GTFF strikes. This is very helpful. ,"For grading, I remembered in the last senate meeting, a grade termed ""p*"" is suggested in case of academic emergency. Is that the ""emergency grade"" in the plan? Maybe the term ""emergency grade"" should be elaborated a bit in the document?",NA
The most critical issue is if IOR's who are GE's are on strike.  The Academic Council Recommendations are very reasonable here.  The dean's office can assign a new IOR who will follow the syllabus and requirements of the course as laid out by the original IOR.  The new IOR will be able to assign grades if the original IOR has not returned by the time grades are due.  Students needs for grades is being addressed.,"My concerns are about access to grades earned thus far in the term and ungraded homework etc. if the IOR strikes before those grades can be entered into canvas or homework graded.  I suppose an emergency grade could be issued until such material is graded etc.  I also am concerned about the shift in the nature of testing and new assignments if a new IOR is assigned.  The unit head and IOR need to be careful about not changing the way that students are being tested.  Perhaps if prior term exams are available to the new IOR, they can structure those exams in a similar way.  ","Most of the IOR in my unit are TTF, career faculty or pro-tem.  At most, 5 sections are taught by GE's so I don't think a strike will be that impactful even if all strike.  Lab instructors are limited to a couple of large lower division classes.  The instructor of record should be able to adapt the course in the event of a strike."
I appreciate the aspects of the  AC Recommendations that protect original IORs from losing their positions.,"It is unclear if funds for allocated GE FTE are redistributed to instructors or others if replacement graders are needed.

It would be helpful if a timeline for Emergency Grade replacements were proposed.","It is unclear how a GE strike equates to an emergency under the previously approved ACP. 

How is FTE not paid during a strike re-allocated?
Who/what group(s) is/are expected to be sourced as alternative IORs?
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The Draft Academic Council Recommendations translate some of the Academic Continuity Policy into actions that can be taken to address an academic disruption that would be associated with the UO Administration-GE labor negotiations impasse and subsequent GE labor strike. ,"The Academic Council recommendations could be improved to make them more useful and consistent with the Academic Continuity Policy. To start, I note that the introductory paragraph of the recommendations document lists very briefly the three principles that undergird the Academic Continuity Policy: “academic integrity; transparency for students, instructors, and staff; and fairness for students.” Then, those principles are not referenced throughout the rest of the recommendations document, including in the “Academic principles to be followed” section. That omission makes it such that the recommendations document is not clear about how any of its recommendations explicitly balance the three guiding principles of the Academic Continuity Policy. 

Second, I understand that that Academic Continuity Policy authorizes the unit head or designee to replace or add instructors of record (IOR) if the IOR cannot fulfill their IOR duties for the course in the context of the emergency. Accordingly, the Academic Council recommendations document discusses in nearly 2 pages how such policy provisions might apply to (1) the context of the GEs not being able to fulfill their IOR obligations or their obligations as lab/discussion leaders or graders during a GE labor strike (see pages 2-3), and (2) subsequent personnel considerations (see page 4). In contrast, the discussion of assigning emergency grades is relegated to a small paragraph at the bottom of page 3. Further, that paragraph omits any discussion of what the emergency grades are and how they can balance the three principles that guide the Academic Continuity Policy. That omission remains in the Academic Council Recommendations document despite (1) the relatively lengthy discussion of emergency grades in the Academic Continuity Policy, and (2) the recommendation made by one senator on the senate executive committee for the Academic Council to improve the sparse discussion of emergency grades during a recent senate executive committee meeting. 

Thus, the Academic Council recommendations document reads like an administrators’ guide on how to “scab” GE labor during a potential GE labor strike that would result from a negotiations impasse between those same administrators and the GE laborers that the administrators could replace. Even if that is not the intent of the Academic Council recommendations document, it is hard not to read it that way. ",I’ve stated the questions and concerns that I and my constituents have about the Draft Academic Council Recommendations for the Academic Continuity Plan in my response to question 2 of this survey. 
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