As the committee responsible for weighing potential budget cuts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln continues its deliberations, a pair of faculty groups are pointing to what they say was a flawed process leading to several departments being put on the chopping block. In a pair of statements read during the Academic Planning Committee's Oct. 21 meeting, the groups said faculty who would be affected were not told about the proposed cuts until just before they were announced and were not informed of how they could participate in the review process. Both cases represented potential breaches in the principles of shared governance, the UNL Chapter of the American Association of University Professors and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee said.
