Message from John Baker re GA meeting on Strategic Plan

Dear friends and colleagues,

At a meeting of UCD staff yesterday, called by the UCD trade unions
in association with the UCD Students Union, it was unanimously agreed
that the outgoing Governing Authority should be lobbied not to adopt
any Strategic Plan at its meeting of 7 December, because no one has
yet seen the Plan and because (contrary to the Universities Act and
Sustaining Progress) there has been no serious process of
consultation with staff about it. It is also inappropriate for the
outgoing GA to make such long-term decisions at the end of its term
of office.

People were invited to communicate this point of view to members of
the GA directly, and/or to participate in a lobby of the GA to be
held at the Radisson Hotel on Tuesday next at 1.30 pm.

The list of GA members is provided at the following web site and is
reproduced below.

http://www.ucd.ie/govauth/members.htm

There is the also a list of such email addresses of external members
as could be located (courtesty of Sara O'Sullivan).

If you feel able to lobby any of these GA members in advance of
Tuesday's meeting, the unionised staff of UCD would be most grateful.

An appropriate form of appeal might be as follows:

As a
member of the staff / student / graduate of University College Dublin
/ citizen of Ireland
I am very concerned at the speed at which the current Strategic
Planning process in UCD is being conducted and in particular at the
fact that, contrary to the Universities Act and Sustaining Progress,
there has been no serious process of consultation with staff about
it. I also believe that is inappropriate for the outgoing Governing
Authority to make such long-term decisions at the end of its term of
office.

I would therefore call on you as a member of that Governing Authority
to refrain from adopting any Strategic Plan at your meeting of 7
December.
John Baker
Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin