FORMER UTMB FACULTY SENATE CHAIR'S HEARING COMPLETE

The final hearing for folks represented by TFA (and I suspect the final hearing--period) ended at 4:05 PM yesterday, running just over 4 hours.  The TFA advocate, Jose Briceño, representing the faculty member at the hearing, felt like, overall, things went well, and he even said that the chair of the hearing panel, the one who was trying to shut down the Blogmeister yesterday during testimony via telephone, did get around to asking some good questions as the hearing progressed. 

Even so, the prognosis for this UTMB professor is poor.  The Blogmeister believes that a couple of agendas over and above any stated RIF criteria landed him in that hearing, and the hand-picked members of the hearing panel, all part of management, aren't disposed to look kindly on faculty appeals.  Of the 18 appeal results the Blogmeister has right now (a total of 30 appealed, I'm told), two managed to get reinstated, and administration turned right around and canned one of them again anyway.  Regardless of the prognosis, this former faculty senate chair did the right thing by standing up for himself and the other faculty members who fell under the knife. 

All we can do now is await the inevitable result.