UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD

FACULTY SENATE OFFICE, CC 314

Tel: 860-768-4475 facsenate@hartford.edu

Fax: 860-768-4070 http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/facsenate/

AGENDA

Faculty Senate

November 8, 13, 2007

12:15 – 1:50 p.m., Auerbach, 426

1. Call to Order/Announcements – Chair Weinholtz

r Faculty Senate Committee Membership Revised – http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/facsenate/committees.htm (Deadline)

r New Diversity Committee

2. Presentations

r Finance & Administration – Arosha Jayawickrema

r Staff Association – Jason Pomposelli

r Institutional Partnerships & Sponsored Research – Peter Lisi, Director

3. Committees reports:

²	Academic Standards	Elizabeth Petry	CETA
²	BLT	Ingrid Russell	A&S
²	Computer	Narendar Sumukadas	Barney
²	Constitution	Bob Decker	A&S
²	Curriculum	Donn Weinholtz
²	Development	Ed Gray	A&S
²	Grants	Dennis Nolan	HAS
²	International Studies	Anne Comiskey	Hartt
²	P/T Faculty	Paul Siegel	A&S
²	Prof. Standards	Sharon Shepela	Hillyer
²	Student Affairs	Peter Oliver	ENHP
²	Univ. Scholar	Dan Williamson	Hillyer
²	Environmental Task Force	Joanna Borucinska	A&S

4. Orders of the Day 1:50 p.m.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

5. Reconvene

6. Presentations

r President Walter Harrison -- Update

r Interim Provost J. Voelker – Update

r University High School Principal Elizabeth Colli

7. Other Business

r Constitution and Bylaws: Committees, Chairs, and membership requirements. (Handout B)

r Military Commissions Act Op Ed -- President Harrison

r Next meeting of the Faculty Senate will be December 11, and 13, 12:15 p.m. – 1:50 p.m., A426.

8. Adjourn (by 1:50 p.m.)

Bylaw 4.a “Faculty Senate meetings are open to all full-time and part-time (adjunct) faculty. Administrators, staff, and others having proper business with the Faculty Senate may attend meetings as observers, upon invitation of (or approval of petition to) the Chair or the Executive Committee. Observers may not, during the meeting, petition the Faculty Senate Chair for the right to address the Faculty Senate, although the Faculty Senate Chair may invite observers to address the Faculty Senate from the floor on specific points of business. Only elected Senators have voice and voting privileges.”