have had on decisions

[GoodTaste]

Does "have had on decisions" mean "have suffered by decisions"? Just a guess here. Checking out "have" in dictionaries has not found me a way out.

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Academics across the country are dismayed. At Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), for instance, faculty published an open letter decrying the “limited amount of input faculty, staff, and graduate employees have had on decisions related to our safety.” At Georgia Tech, faculty released a similar letter saying the university’s reopening procedures “do not follow science-based evidence”—and that “no faculty, staff, or student should be coerced into risking their health and the health of their families by working … on campus when there is a remote/online equivalent.”

Source: Science
[h=1]‘Ethically troubling.’ University reopening plans put professors, students on edge[/h][FONT=&quot]By Jyoti MadhusoodananJul. 20, 2020[/FONT]
https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/...-reopening-plans-put-professors-students-edge

 

[teechar]

Does "have had on decisions" mean "have suffered by decisions"?

No.

faculty published an open letter decrying the limited amount of input which [faculty, staff, and graduate employees] have had on decisions

Do you understand it now? [I added the writing in blue to try and make it clearer]

 

[GoodTaste]

OK. Now I understand it as "We (faculty, staff, and graduate employees) have received limited information about the decisions (related to our safety) (And so we don't know how to sufficently protect ourselves from the pandemic on campus)." Am I on the right track?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

It might make more sense if you say regarding or concerning instead of on:

. . . [F]aculty published an open letter decrying the "limited amount of input [they] have had regarding decisions. . . ."

 

[GoesStation]

Reduce the problem sentence to this:

Faculty published a letter decrying the amount of input they have had on decisions. Is it clear now?

Please try this exercise with future problem sentences before you post them. Remove every possible adjective and adverb and every parenthetical clause. Reduce every list to a single item.

 

[emsr2d2]

Now I understand it as "We (faculty, staff, and graduate employees) have received limited information about the decisions (related to our safety) (And so we don't know how to sufficently protect ourselves from the pandemic on campus)." Am I on the right track?

Not information about, but input on.

 

[GoodTaste]

Not information about, but input on.

If so, what is the definition for "input"? I understood it as "information received".

Here is a definition from a dictionary:
input: contribution of information, ideas, etc.:[uncountable]Before making a decision we need your input.

 

[emsr2d2]

If so, what is the definition for "input"? I understood it as "information received".

Here is a definition from a dictionary:
input: contribution of information, ideas, etc.:[uncountable]Before making a decision we need your input.

If it meant "information received", the definition would start with "receipt/reception of ...".

If I am upset at the lack of input I had on something, it means that I don't feel that I was able/allowed to express my opinion or state my thoughts and ideas on it before it was done. In the original, the faculty are angry that decisions were made on safety without (in their opinion) enough of them (the faculty) being able or allowed to give their ideas or opinions.

 

[teechar]

input = contributions (ideas/suggestions) from different people/entities.