Rensselaer Professors Challenge Provost's Decision to Suspend Faculty Senate

By PAULA WASLEY

A struggle over faculty governance is coming to a head at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where faculty members plan to vote next week on a proposal that would ask the university's provost to reinstate the Faculty Senate, which he suspended in early August.

The provost, Robert E. Palazzo, has cited concerns about...