{"id":132,"date":"2018-02-21T19:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/?p=132"},"modified":"2018-02-21T19:59:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:59:46","slug":"minutes-april-7-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/2018\/02\/21\/minutes-april-7-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Minutes: April 7, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 7, 2017<\/sub><\/p>\n

In attendance:\u00a0 Troy Smith; Wali R. Kharif; Matthew Zagumny; Kim Godwin; Elie Fetzer (student), Laura Militana \u2013 Herald Citizen; Julia Gruber, Josie McQuail, Michael Gunther; John Wilson, guest speaker<\/sub><\/p>\n

Dr. Gruber asked for approval of agenda; it was moved, seconded, and unanimously agreed to<\/sub><\/p>\n

Minutes from both February 2017 and March 2017 were circulated by e-mail and because of a lack of quorum it was decided an e-mail vote on approval was going to be done.:<\/sub><\/p>\n

Committee reports: Treaurer\/Membership:\u00a0 Dr. Kharif in his report said that we had a<\/sub><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Treasurer\/memberships appointment:\u00a0 Allen Driggers agreed to serve as Treasurer\/Membership <\/strong>Chair.\u00a0 Dr. Kharif gave his last membership and treasurer\u2019s report.\u00a0 Current memberships as of April 7, 2017 were 38; for Payroll Deductions for 2-16-17 we had 31 members paying via payroll deduction.\u00a0 Direct pay: 7 members.\u00a0 There was no change in membership.<\/sub><\/p>\n

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Treasury Report from April 7, 2017.\u00a0 Balance in the AAUP account was $6,503.82. This amount includes 2\u00a0 deposits since March 2, 2017 totaling $1,053 \u2013 February ($526.50 and March (526.50 payroll deducted dues checks sent from TTU<\/sub><\/p>\n

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Future committed payments for the 2016-17 academic year:\u00a0 $3,147.75<\/sub><\/p>\n

Second Quarter 2017 Chapter Payroll Dues: $1,049.25 (pay by June 2017)<\/sub><\/p>\n

Thrid Quarter 2017 Chapter Payroll Dues $1,049.25 (pay by September 2017)<\/sub><\/p>\n

Fourth Quarter 2017 Chapter Payroll Dues $1,049.25 (pay by December 2017)<\/sub><\/p>\n

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Future Income from 2016-17 Academic Year:\u00a0 TTU Payroll Deduction Dues Checks: $1,579.50<\/sub><\/p>\n

3 checks @ $526.50 each: circa April 30, 2017, May 31, 20117, and June 30, 2017<\/sub><\/p>\n

amount available for use:\u00a0 $2,035.57<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n

This estimate is based on the chapter retaining at least $2,000 in the treasury at all times.<\/sub><\/p>\n

\u00a0Submitted <\/sub><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Old business: the AAUP resolution \u2013 the <\/strong>resolution was posted on the AAUP website.\u00a0 An e-mail vote was conducted on whether to present the findings of the AAUP Resolution to the Faculty Senate, and the vote as 17 to 1 in favor.<\/sub><\/p>\n

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  1. V)<\/sub><\/strong> New Business: Dr. Wilson<\/strong>\n

    <\/sub>John K. Wilson, author of seven books, including Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest, Newt Gingrich: Capitol Crimes and Misdemeanors, Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies, <\/em>and The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Assault on Reason<\/em>. He is the co-editor of\u00a0<\/sub>org<\/sub><\/a>and the editor of Illinois Academe<\/em>. He has a Ph.D. in education from Illinois State University, and is the co-organizer of the Chicago Book Expo and the Evanston Literary Festival.<\/sub><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    In his opinion, Dr. Wilson stated, speech should not be suppressed. <\/sub>\u00a0Heinous speech will be revealed for what it is if it is allowed expression by those who hold pernicious beliefs.\u00a0 <\/sub>Fri. Dr. Wilson spoke on The Right to Protest, But Not the Right to Silence”: the right to protest on campus and free speech, including the Middlebury conflict over Charles Murray.<\/sub><\/p>\n

    <\/sub>On Sat. Dr. Wilson will speak about “Free Speech on Campus, From Trump to Tennessee”<\/sub><\/p>\n

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    The meeting was adjourned for a social at <\/sub>Dr. Gruber\u2019s home.<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    April 7, 2017 In attendance:\u00a0 Troy Smith; Wali R. Kharif; Matthew Zagumny; Kim Godwin; Elie Fetzer (student), Laura Militana \u2013 Herald Citizen; Julia Gruber, Josie McQuail, Michael Gunther; John Wilson, guest speaker Dr. Gruber asked for approval of agenda; it was moved, seconded, and unanimously agreed to Minutes from both February 2017 and March 2017 … Continue reading Minutes: April 7, 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aaup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}