Greetings-

I am writing as part of an effort to generate more information on

candidates running for faculty governance positions at UNC. This

survey is a project of the American Association of University

Professors' UNC chapter. Any answers you choose to provide to the

questions below will be posted to my faculty governance page at

http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/fg and will be publicized to interested

faculty. Thank you for your service to the university!

Best wishes,

Andrew J. Perrin

Department of Sociology

andrew_perrin@unc.edu

1.) What issues, concerns, and areas do you hope to address through

your service on faculty government? 

I am not ``running'' to address anything. I was asked if I would accept
nomination and I am willing to serve. In 29 years at Carolina, I have
served 12 years on Buildings and Grounds; chaired the Common Space
subcommittee of the Chancellor's Intellectual Climate Report and its
later Implementation; served on the administrative boards of the Medical
School, Graduate School, Library; served on Admissions, on Athletics, as
vice-chair and acting chair of the Social Science Division; been faculty
on curriculums, centers, and departments in Ecology, Asia, SE Asia,
Carolina Population Center, Epidemiology; and had some limited
involvement in two major overhauls of the college curriculum.   I have a
broad view based on wide experience of this great university and hope I
can be of use in Council deliberations.

2.) To what extent to you believe faculty interests differ from those

of administrators?

Administrators have to be more concerned with finances and some are here
only short-term until they step up administratively at another
institution, but it is our common interest to build the best academic
structures and processes for learning.

3.) How should we maintain academic integrity in the face of

increasing financial pressures?

We require active faculty participation and vigorous oversight, from
athletic academic standards to corporate control of research publication
to needs of students and faculty not being addressed by administrators
too busy fund raising.

4.) What are your views on increasing inequalities within the faculty

based on, for example, tenure-track vs. fixed term appointments and

differing salary levels? 

I think universities (and their presidents)need to educate legislators
about the importance of tenure-track faculty positions to the mission of
the university, so that the trend to economize by relying increasingly
on fixed-term appointments for teaching can be reversed and more real
opportunities for new faculty created.  To the extent that differences
in salary result from differences in job requirements, regarding
research and supporting graduate students and such, I am not aware of
inequalities except of opportunity. 

5.) Would you prefer to see a faculty governance system that is

focused on prominent University issues (e.g., academic freedom and

educational policy) or one that is more focused on faculty's specific

needs (e.g., benefits and salary)? Or, alternatively, how would you

seek to balance the two?

Faculty governance is not a labor union. It is appropriate for a
subcommittee to monitor faculty welfare and advise the administration,
but the business of the Faculty Council is academic.

6.) Are you a member of the American Association of University

  Professors (AAUP)?

Used to be, but not for many years.

7.) Any additional comments?