[Pols-l] Rami Zeedan

[Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick]

Colleagues, I was finally able to speak with Carl today about this appointment. My original understanding was correct and Jewish Studies was incorrect.

Rami has been officially hired by Jewish Studies into a tenure track line. Fifty percent of that line will be housed in another department. For the 2018-19 academic year that 50% is in POLS as a placeholder.

This fall we will be allowed to go through a process (to be defined) and decide whether we want 50% of Rami's line in POLS. We can say no to this without penalty. If we say no then they will look to put the 50% in another department, such as SOC.

So thankfully we do have a say in what happens here.

Sorry for the confusion and extra emails.
DHM


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Subject: [Pols-l] Rami Zeedan

Colleagues, last spring the Dean contacted me about a scholar that was going to be hired in Jewish Studies with funds from a gift to KU. The scholar is Rami Zeedan and he is a political scientist (vita attached).

Throughout the spring I understood that this appointment would be a Visiting AP or teaching fellow appointment in Jewish Studies, with no direct obligation to POLS. The idea was that Dr. Zeedan would arrive and teach at KU in August and POLS would conduct an interview in Sep-Oct. to see if we would be interested in making a joint appointment. As such I didn't inform the rest of you during the spring.

Amidst a series of hectic phone calls and emails from the Dean, he never mentioned that they had converted the position into a tenure track line with Jewish Studies as the principal and POLS as secondary. I now know that Jewish Studies then conducted a brief search in April and offered Zeedan a tenure-track line.

So you might imagine my surprise this week when I learned that we have a new .50% faculty member. I am not unhappy about this, but this was not what I thought we had agreed upon. In any event, if you want to blame anyone you can blame me.

I think Zeedan is a nice addition in local politics and area studies, I just would have preferred a more standard process.

We'll arrange a meet and greet later in the fall.
Thanks for your attention.
DHM
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