CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO
FACULTY SENATE
RESOLUTION ON THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE (II)
Executive Committee December 9, 1997
WHEREAS: The California State University (CSU) faculty
require a reasonable period of time to evaluate documents related
to the partnership and CSU auxiliary entities?currently known as
the Strategic Internal Partnership/California Education
Technology Initiative (SIP/CETI)?and to make recommendations, and
WHEREAS: The implications of the partnership for CSU programs,
faculty, and students remain unclear, therefore be it
RESOLVED: That any agreement reached must fully address and
resolve the following concerns, namely:
1. The intellectual property rights of CSU and/or
California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) faculty
and staff must be asserted clearly and without equivocation,
with full acknowledgment by the CETI partnership;
2. Any claim to co-ownership of intellectual property created
by CSU and/or CSUSB faculty and staff must be eschewed by the
CSU and CETI;
3. Control of the content and delivery of the curriculum must
rest clearly and permanently with CSU and/or CSUSB faculty;
4. Standardization of hardware and software offerings must in
no way restrict CSU and/or CSUSB faculty ability to select
computing equipment, operating systems, and software
applications related to curriculum content;
5. Research and any related extramural funding activities on
the part of CSU and/or CSUSB faculty must remain out-of-scope
of the partnership, as promised by SIP/CETI representatives
at the CSUSB forum on CETI;
6. Any such standardization must fully comply with open
public standards, including those of the Internet Engineering
Task Force, without the requirement of any proprietary
licensed-for-fee or single platform implementation;
7. Any equipment or software meeting such open public
standards must be permitted without prejudice or specialized
fee or cost to fully connect to and interoperate with any
equipment, platforms, software, or environments provided by
the partnership;
8. The status and interests of every CSU and/or CSUSB
employee engaged in the provision of technology support must
be zealously safeguarded;
9. Nothing in the agreement must be allowed to hinder
individual CSU campuses in cultivating relationships with
members of their communities, employers of their graduates,
or donors and potential donors?even when those members are
competitors of the industry partners in the agreement;
10. Any agreement reached must be made in an atmosphere of
full disclosure, with the cooperation and oversight of the
State of California Legislature, and in honest consultation
with the bargaining agents, attorneys, and other
representatives of all CSU employees, and with full projected
costs and revenues and the sources of such revenues on full
display using accepted accounting procedures;
11. Revenues accruing from the partnership to the CSU must be
treated by the CSU Board of Trustees and by the State of
California Legislature as supplemental to, not as replacement
for, the California General Fund and other state financial
support of the CSU;
12. No present or future activity of the CETI partnership
must be allowed to diminish the CSU and/or CSUSB commitment
to maintain and expand a committed tenured faculty as
promised to the people and prospective students of the State
of California,
and be it further
RESOLVED: That the CSUSB Faculty Senate believes that the
practice of top-down negotiations, and in particular,
negotiations and requests for proposals or related activities
conducted in effective secrecy, should not constitute a precedent
for future decisions on CSU policies, and be it further
RESOLVED: That the CSUSB Faculty Senate requests, in strongest
possible terms, that negotiations leading to an agreement with
CETI (or other business partnership with the same objectives)
proceed with due deliberation and wide consultation with faculty
and staff throughout the CSU, and be it further
RESOLVED: That the CSUSB Faculty Senate again strongly urges that
no agreement between the CSU and the CETI partnership be signed
until six months after publication of the final master contract
language and business plan, and after all relevant documents have
been made available using multiple modes in addition to postings
on the World Wide Web? which are not accessible to all interested
parties? and be it further
RESOLVED: That copies of this resolution be distributed to the
CSU Chancellor, the CSU Board of Trustees, the Systemwide
Internal Partnership, the CSU Statewide Academic Senate, to all
CSU Senates, to the California local and state media, to members
of the State of California Legislature, to the proposed corporate
partners of CETI, and to the statewide President of CFA.