The UT SYSFAC discusses several important issues, including additional RIF concerns, in these revealing minutes. Here's a pithy little excerpt from an exchange between SYSFAC members and UT attorney Dan Sharphorn:
Q: What are the consequences of violating a Regents’ Rule?
A: This is a good question. If someone is terminated in violation of rules, the courts will not like that . . . The attitude of the courts is that, if an institution has rules, it is supposed to follow them.
UT/UTMB, of course, followed little to none of the processes outlined in Regents Rule 31003. Open the links here and here for a discussion of UT's transgressions against its own policy, the most egregious transgression being that of allowing chairs and directors to do the work the RIF committee, by policy, was supposed to do.
Click on the highlighted text to view the full UT SYSFAC minutes for March 2009 (the latest minutes posted).
