December 1, 2016
Questioner: Pali Sen
Posed to: Radha Pyati, President/Designee, UNF Faculty Association
While surfing the Legislative Calendar for 2015-16, I came across FA 15-32, passed and adopted on 10/01/15. It was a Resolution of Freshman Housing Requirement brought by the Executive committee. The Faculty Association asks the UNF administration to allow students who live in Duval, Baker, Clay, Nassau, or St. Johns County to opt out of the requirement. Strangely, the resolution was supported by a set of graphs of GPA versus freshmen yield but not by Zip code vs. freshmen yield. Can you please find out why the resolution needed a set of misleading graphs?
Response from the Floor by FA Past President Chip Klostermeyer:
At the time the resolution was passed, the FA did not have that data readily available. The FA used the data that was available at the time. The resolution was modeled after resident’s requirements of at least one other State University System institution (i.e., Florida Atlantic University) and after considerable debate and revision in the Faculty Association committees.
