"The impact of his work will be with us for a long time," said Ted Miller, IUB professor of public and environmental affairs. Greenebaum’s "fingerprints are all over the university’s most fundamental policies pertaining to faculty governance," Miller added.

For many years, Greenebaum has been deeply involved in the work of the Bloomington Faculty Council (BFC) and the University Faculty Council (UFC). He was BFC president pro tem and UFC co-secretary from 1995 to 1997, and since the 1980s, he has repeatedly served on the BFC and UFC agenda committees and as the parliamentarian for both councils.

"Ed made one of his larger marks on the UFC Constitution," recalled Jeffrey Stake, Greenebaum’s law school colleague. "Being a specialist not only in law but in constitutions and procedure, he contributed heavily to both its wording and its passage. For that alone we owe him a large debt."

The revised constitution, which was adopted by the university faculty in 1992, "is a good piece of writing that will serve the university for years to come," said Don Gray, a professor emeritus of English and former special adviser to the university president. "It is also the issue of a masterful exercise in committee management. It wouldn’t have happened but for Ed’s skills and intelligence." His other accomplishments include leadership in the reorganization of the UFC’s committee structure, passage of a new intellectual property policy for the university and a major revision of the student ethics handbook, the IU Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct.

William Schneider, an IUPUI history professor, served on the UFC as co-secretary with Greenebaum. "Ed was not just interested in making administrative institutions operate efficiently," he said. "He saw them as means to following the fundamental principles upon which the university is grounded: academic freedom, due process and shared governance. I can testify to the fact that this put him, at times, in opposition to some administrative and trustee initiatives. In every case, even those who disagreed most strongly with Ed’s positions respected him and appreciated the point he was arguing."

Many colleagues have come to know Greenebaum’s expertise in conflict resolution through his involvement in the IUB chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). For many years, Greenebaum has chaired the chapter’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

"Ed’s style of leadership is both mild and persistent, modest and courageous in its adherence to principle," said Mary Burgan, general secretary of the national AAUP and a former IUB English professor. "Through all my years of service to the Indiana University Faculty Council and to the local and national AAUP,
I have not met a stronger advocate of faculty governance in the service of higher education."

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