1. Vote of No Confidence by Faculty vis-à-vis President and BOT Chair  

  2. Seek Legal Representation: Ask a lawyer to challenge the President’s and Board’s actions (like refusal to comply with Open Records) as illegal? 

  1. Set Up Faculty Taskforce to Investigate and Assess the Process of Dissolution: Establish a team to thoroughly study what happens and propose remedies.  Act as the “Loyal Opposition” to growing authoritarian administration.

  2. Get Appointment to Discuss Action and Shared Governance with Governor:  All of his appointed Trustees voted to dissolve.  Is he willing to take any action to redress this rapid and tightly-controlled executive power grab?  Does the refusal to release the Deloitte report violate any state laws or regulations?  Can the faculty expand the arena of conflict to raise the stakes?

  3. Consider forms of passive resistance, civil disobedience, and noncooperation to the new governance regime: Faculty will inevitably have to play a part in academic affairs, in part because many of its leaders have vital experience and negotiation savvy with faculty conflict.  A good place to begin is with the idea of “work to contract” in the face of “accelerationism” and explore other tactics of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, which highlights how underdogs can best topdogs.

  4. Seek a Synoptic View of the Larger Picture: Get an overview of how this latest act of executive imperialism by the present university administration takes place in a wider context and is really long standing.  

  5. Search Out and Challenge New and Potential  Targets of Executive Imperialism: Is the President’s current program to alter or replace UK Core an example?  What is next? A shift to the new vocationalism in the undergraduate curriculum to “help” the state’s economy produce students with technologically-replaceable jobs? 

  6. Continue to Expose the Sham of PR6: Consider sponsoring continuing symbolic acts of protest on campus (e.g., a weekly silent vigil, interviews, op/ed pieces, radio talk shows) to keep alive the idea that the fight is not over.  Remind constituencies of the historical benefits of true “shared governance” as a means of differentiating a university and a corporation and as an instrument of democratic process.