Dark Days for Transparency & Shared Governance at WIU - RICH EGGER, Tri States Public Radio

Trustees held the closed door meeting at 8:00 a.m. on June 28 for the stated purpose of considering personnel, collective bargaining, litigation, and real estate – all of which are allowed by the OMA. Immediately afterward, they went into open session and authorized the layoffs of two dozen faculty members – including seven tenured teachers -- and two other employees in academic affairs. The OMA allows boards to go into executive (closed door) sessions to talk about the performance of specific employees. But in this 51 minute recording, the board talks again and again about groups of workers, the school’s budget, programs, and other matters that are supposed to be discussed in public. http://www.tspr.org/post/dark-days-transparency-shared-governance-wiu