By Anonymous
BOSTON April 17, 2004--Two Emerson College department chairs resigned their posts recently amid the strong discord of negotiations between the administration and faculty. The resignations of Philip Glenn, Chair of the Organizational and Political Communication Department, and Marye Tharp, Chair of the Marketing and Health Communication Department, follow the departure of three Chief Academic Officers (CAO’s) within recent years. The CAO’s who resigned were, in reverse order, Dorothy Aram, Murray Schwartz and Philip Amato.
“It is evident that President Liebergott’s contempt for the faculty and for the college’s academic mission is having an extraordinary effect on our ability as an institution to attract and retain quality personnel,” said Eiki Satake, President of the Emerson College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (ECCAAUP). “We either need a dramatic turn of events in the way the college is managed or we need a change in leadership.”
In addition to an emphasis on economics over academics in the last several years, the administration has shown a grave disrespect for the faculty and for the role they play in preserving the college’s academic integrity. Since negotiations between the administration and the faculty began in September of 2003, the administration has threatened to limit the faculty’s role in the governance of academic affairs unless they disband the union and has chosen to negotiate only through its attorneys.
Moreover, the administration has continued to offer extremely rigid and increasingly dictatorial proposals. One such article proposed by the administration would restrict any professional or charitable work performed by faculty outside of the college unless given written permission by the administration. Another article would restrict the freedom of speech of faculty by preventing them from picketing, passing out handbills or expressing sympathy for other organized labor activity.
“It is regrettable that Emerson is losing such talented department chairs,” added Satake. “We hope that the administration will see the unintended consequences of their actions before more faculty follow suit.”
During the negotiation period both the faculty union and the faculty assembly have taken strong votes of no confidence in College President Jacqueline Liebergott and Vice President for Administration and Finance Robert Silverman. The current five-year contract between the ECCAAUP and the College expires on June 30, 2004.
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New York, NY August 26, 2003 —- The EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Industry Consortium today announced that Librados, a US provider of J2EE-standards based application integration software, has become the Consortium's latest member and the company's CEO, David Richards, is also Chairing the new Adaptor Technology Committee.
The Adaptor Technology Committee has been created by the Consortium to assist software vendors, end-user organizations and independent consultants and developers to fully understand the definition, role and cost of adaptors (software artefacts which interface with systems thus facilitating the interchange of data and meta-data). The Committee will assist in finding adaptor solutions for specific integration problems and will provide a complete vendor guide covering all adaptor disciplines.
David Richards, CEO of Librados and Chair of the Adaptor Technology Committee comments: "Through the creation of this new committee we are gathering a rich blend of thought-leaders and visionaries from the adaptor world that can together drive adoption of public specifications such as JCA (Java Connector Architecture), application interfacing protocols and standardization of adaptors. We have joined the Consortium and the Adaptor Committee as we agree with the philosophy of the group which encourages free expression, entrepreneurial spirit, interaction and education - all of these things are needed to make a difference in our industry."
Michael Kuhbock, Chairman and Founder of the EAI Industry Consortium adds: "We are extremely pleased to welcome Librados to the Consortium as our newest member. We look forward to seeing some impressive results from the Adaptor Committee and to sharing the experience and enthusiasm of the company with our other members."
About the EAI Industry Consortium
The EAI Industry Consortium is a non-profit global advocacy group developed to promote EAI and all related integration technologies through sponsored research, the establishment of standards and guidelines, best practices, and the articulation of EAI's strategic and measurable benefits. EAI Industry Consortium's motto is "Dedicated to the Quest for Measurable Business Value."
The strategic mission of the member-driven EAI Industry Consortium is simple: We are unifying and developing a common understanding within the industry, educating and informing the marketplace, and introducing and promoting integration technologies.
Among the sectors represented in the EAI Industry Consortium membership are independent software vendors (ISVs), hardware vendors, system integrators, academic institutions, end user corporations, non-profit institutions and individual members, as well as various industry leaders. Information on the EAI Industry Consortium is available at www.eaiindustry.org or by sending e-mail to information@eaiindustry.org.
About Librados
Librados provides high quality, cost-effective and easy to implement J2EE standards based application integration software to meet the real-time integration needs of today's Web-enabled enterprise. The Librados suite of application integration products allows backend enterprise application functionality to be integrated and exposed into a J2EE application server or Web server environment as XML, Web services, JSTL, JAXB or an ISV's own proprietary format. For more information about the Librados suite of application integration software, visit www.librados.com.
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