Shared Governance
A healthy shared governance structure of a university is the right and responsibility of any scholarly community. Shared governance ensures that the faculty is able to exercise its fundamental role in academic decisions while supporting a faculty member’s right to remain true to his or her intellectual commitments. IFO Academic Affairs is devoted to facilitating a broad and open exchange of ideas, responding to local and national academic issues, and promoting collegiality and understanding of all institutional perspectives.
IFO will continue to be unwavering in defense of academic freedom and dedicated to initiatives to advance equity and inclusion.
Borrowers who devote a decade of their lives to public service should be able to rely on the promise of Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
We reached a substantive tentative agreement on important language to operationalize several delegate assembly resolutions to incentivize and value equity and inclusion work.
By ensuring that all stakeholders have the opportunity to participate, we increase the possibility of benefiting from the often ignored and excluded expertise, gifts, talents, and intellectual curiosity that are necessary pillars for learning institutions.
The IFO negotiating team worked through the summer converting new Delegate Assembly resolutions to contract language and refining language from continuing contract goals to prepare our opening proposal for the 2021-2023 contract.