http://annarborchronicle.com it's like being there Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:59:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 http://annarborchronicle.com/2013/11/23/um-faculty-petition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=um-faculty-petition http://annarborchronicle.com/2013/11/23/um-faculty-petition/#comments Sat, 23 Nov 2013 19:01:48 +0000 Chronicle Staff http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=125369 An online “open letter” from University of Michigan faculty to president Mary Sue Coleman and provost Martha Pollack asks that the proposed Administrative Services Transformation (AST) project – which aims to reduce costs by centralizing services – be terminated. As of early afternoon on Saturday, Nov. 23, the letter had received over 600 signatures. From the letter: “AST is a top-down program that eliminates the ability to retain corporate knowledge and leverage the unit-culture experiences of some 300 support staff while limiting their contributions to a series of transactional tasks in a call center.” [Source]

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