Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins said Friday he has seen no formal charges or complaints from the American Association of University Professors, which plans to write a formal complaint regarding a lack of faculty involvement in the system reorganization.

He said the AAUP has not yet contacted the University.

“I don’t know what their charges are. That’s very hard for me to comment on,” Jenkins said. “When, in due course, that transpires, we will respond to the charges and possibly having a meeting with them.”

He said the concerns about the lack of faculty involvement in the restructuring process were “premature.”

“We’ve only just started assembling the subcommittees, where the faculty, students, staff and others will be intimately involved,” Jenkins said.

He said the decision to merge the president and chancellor positions was a Board of Supervisors decision, of which he had no part.

The Daily Reveille’s attempts to contact Board of Supervisors Chairman Hank Danos received no response.

University Vice Chancellor for Communications Herb Vincent said reorganization would not change faculty involvement.

“Faculty has always participated in shared governance at LSU, and there is no reason to believe that will change with any reorganization,” Vincent said. “Faculty will still have the same participation in admission, matriculation, articulation, curriculum and promotion.”

“We’ve only just started assembling the sub-committees, where the faculty, students, staff and others will be intimately involved.”