{"id":375438,"date":"2026-08-19T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375438\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:14:08","slug":"jacksonville-state-dissolves-faculty-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375438\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State Dissolves Faculty Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jacksonville State board also opted to end the university\u2019s staff council, which is not required by law.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Jacksonville State University Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to dissolve the university\u2019s Faculty Senate in pre-emptive compliance with an Alabama law<\/a> that requires faculty bodies to take on an advisory-only role by Oct.\u00a01, The Alabama Reflector reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The university has a \u201cresponsibility to ensure Jacksonville State University complies with Alabama law while providing sound governance, accountability, and responsible stewardship of the public resources entrusted to the university,\u201d Board Chair Randall Jones said in a statement to the Reflector. \u201cToday\u2019s action fulfills that responsibility while beginning the important work of developing board-approved policies that reflect the requirements of the law and support the University\u2019s long-term success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacksonville State follows in the footsteps of Auburn University, whose board voted in June to dissolve its Faculty Senate<\/a>. The Jacksonville State board also opted to end the university\u2019s staff council, which is not required by law.\u00a0<\/p>\n

David Dempsey, a math professor and now former president of the Faculty Senate, told the Reflector he was optimistic about working with university leaders to create a new body for faculty voices.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m of course disappointed in that outcome, but I can say, in all honesty, that I am happy to report that the board members individually talked to me, the president, the provost\u2014all of them are very supportive of having a mechanism for faculty voice and are eager to see what we come up with,\u201d he said. \u201cThey assured me that there would be a mechanism for faculty voice moving forward. They\u2019re just having to comply with state law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville State board also opted to end the university\u2019s staff council, which is not required by law.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18025,113,684,18024,116,118,117,960,115],"class_list":["post-375438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-higher","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jobs","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}