A Question for the Chancellor

Today was the MSP retreat where, at lunch, we were scheduled to meet the new chancellor. We were encouraged to come up with questions to ask him after lunch. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the scheduling and the chancellor was unable to come. Here is the question I was planning to ask him.

The question I want to ask is essentially the same question I asked the last chancellor when he had first arrived and the question is as relevant now as it was then. When I first arrived, there were relatively few non-tenure system faculty. As the number has increased, the university has made an increasing distinction between tenure-system and non-tenure-system faculty. To many of us, it feels as though the non-tenure-system faculty are being systematically discriminated against and disenfranchised. I have been here for 16 years. My non-tenure-system colleagues and I have dedicated our lives to making the University the best it can be. And yet, it feels to me, that the University is increasingly holding us at arm's length and saying, "You don't really count. You aren't really worthy." So my question is, do you think this is the appropriate direction for the university? Should non-tenure-system faculty be considered full members of the university community or should they be systematically discriminated against and disempowered by the administration?

If you're wondering, our previous chancellor was unapologetic about the fact that non-tenure-system faculty were not really full members of the university community and shouldn't expect to be treated as such.