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GOVERNANCE OF THE KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

 

 

The Governance Documents of the Keck School of Medicine
1988: 
document  events

2005:  document  events

2011:  document  events

2017:  document  events

 

Faculty participation in school governance:

The Medical Faculty Assembly (MFA)
This link provides incomplete records from the 1990’s.
Age has taken its toll and some links no longer function.
In 2011 the MFA was replaced with the Medical Faculty Council (MFC).


In 2017 the MFC was replaced with the Keck School Faculty Council (KFC)
 

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Economic security and tenure:
In the 1990’s 23 tenured basic science faculty members at the medical school
filed a lawsuit alleging USC had breached their employment contracts.

Dean's Letter and Proposed Compensation Plans
The response:
In the news....
From the Provost....
USC financial situation....
Academic Senate Resolutions
and afterwards: 
"How not to reform a medical school"
(from Academe)

 

 

 

 

   "It is evident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on among us, but all do not look at it in the same light.  To some it appears to be novel but accidental, and, as such, they hope it may still be checked; to others it seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency that is to be found in history.

   "Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it."

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America  1830

   "NEXT to permanency in office, nothing can contribute more to the independence of the judges than a fixed provision for their support....In the general course of human nature, A POWER OVER A MAN'S SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL.... The plan of the convention accordingly has provided that the judges of the United States 'shall at STATED TIMES receive for their services a compensation which shall not be DIMINISHED during their continuance in office.'
     "It will readily be understood that the fluctuations in the value of money and in the state of society rendered a fixed rate of compensation in the Constitution inadmissible. What might be extravagant to-day, might in half a century become penurious and inadequate."

Alexander Hamilton
Federalist No. 79  c 1788