Faculty Senate President Robert Watrel (middle) and Vice President Michael Keller (second from right) sit at the Senate meeting Oct. 25. (Photo by Kathy Kroeger)
SDSU faculty members have had a rough couple of years.
Faculty morale has the potential to directly affect the quality of a college education. There are a number of issues that have had an impact on faculty morale over the years. Though the SDSU faculty continues to provide the best education they can, recently three issues have topped the list of problems frustrating them.
They are going on three years without a raise and more cuts continue to loom on the horizon as the economic recession continues and the legislative session creeps closer. Perhaps the biggest issue, though, is a lack of communication.
“If people are grumbling most keep it to themselves,” said Michael Keller a professor in the English Department and vice president of the Faculty Senate.
Some faculty members have said communicating faculty issues through the Board of Regents bureaucracy is difficult. Many faculty members are simply afraid of communicating complaints for fear of reprisal. In fact, most are unwilling to talk openly about this issue.
Dr. Gary Aguiar, a professor of political science and president of the South Dakota Council of Higher Education, said the amount of control a faculty memb
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