To:         IPFW Faculty Senate
From:    Indiana University Faculty Board of Review
                Dipak Chowdhury
                Mark Crouch
                Michael Nusbaumer
                Mary Helen Thuente, chair
                Cheryl Truesdell
Subj: Faculty Grievance Process
Date: February 26, 1998

WHEREAS, the faculty grievance process is a duly authorized right guaranteed by the Indiana University Academic Handbook and is essential to the good and welfare of the faculty and of IPFW; and

WHEREAS, the cooperation of the administration is necessary if faculty who file grievances are to receive due process and have their concerns addressed in an appropriate and timely fashion; and

WHEREAS, the bylaws of the IPFW Faculty Senate authorize "investigation" of the case by the Indiana University Faculty Board of Review; and

WHEREAS, faculty who file grievances and who serve on the Faculty Board of Review should not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, and retaliation; and

WHEREAS, any challenge to the authority of the Indiana University Faculty Board of Review is a challenge, not only to the rights of Indiana University faculty to a grievance process, but to all IPFW faculty's right to receive due process and to have their grievances heard in a timely and appropriate fashion; and

 WHEREAS, the attached report from the 1997-98 Indiana University Faculty Board of Review indicates that (1) the authority and the efforts of the Indiana University Faculty Board of Review have been challenged and thwarted by the IPFW administration, as well as the office of the Indiana University Counsel, and (2) that faculty who have participated in the grievance process overseen by the 1997-98 Indiana University Faculty Board of Review have been subjected to harassment, intimidation, and retaliation,

BE IT RESOLVED, that the IPFW Faculty Senate