05-24-2019, 04:40 PM
(05-24-2019, 04:25 PM)Dill Wrote: If one partner in a law firm takes on a controversial client prompting another partner to walk out of the room--is the one who walked out "showing insolence to his employer" while "on the clock"?
If an Army E-8 disciplines an E-2 in his unit, how is that framed in military law? Is the E-2 an employee?
The answer to both questions can be "yes" only when someone cannot view organizations in anything other than the most limited business terms of employer/employee. Someone answering "yes" would see the same wherever he looked at "what actually happened," though what actually happened cannot be defined independently of institutional mission and regulations.
What "actually happened" in this case happened at a university with shared governance.
What students learned is that one set of university employees can protest bad decisions made by another set of university employees, not "employers," at their own institution. In what you have said so far there is no evidence you value, or even acknowledge/understand, the university's mission to teach engaged critical thinking towards authority--a quality employers generally do not desire in employees.
As point 3 of Taylor's statement on shared governance makes clear, faculty are not simply "employees" who obey "employers,"
Participation of faculty in the governance of the University is a Board of Trustees-delegated right and a responsibility of a scholarly community. Shared governance is essential to sustain and nurture Taylor’s Christian liberal arts academic culture.
Faculty further serve as checks and balances to the board and administration. https://jobs.taylor.edu/faculty/shared-governance.
Great that Pat, I and others know this. Why can't it be great that you know it too? What is blocking the explanation?
What?! I don't think that is how the chain of command works. If someone decided Pence could talk at graduation then they must be signing the checks. Or at least the boss of everyone at the graduation ceremony.
Mind. Blown.
