FACULTY SENATE AGENDA

September 11 and 13, 2007

12:15 p.m.-1:50 p.m., Auerbach 426

 

To:                  All Full-Time Faculty                                                             

 

From:              Maria Marques, Office of the Faculty Senate

 

Subject:          Faculty Senate Agenda

 

Date:               September 6, 2007                             

 

 

Tuesday, September 11

Call to Order – Chair Weinholtz                                                                                12:15 p.m.

§         Welcome and announcements

§         Faculty Senate Annual Report 2006-2007 (Attachment A)

§         Sabbatical Committee Faculty Senate representation

§         Grievance Committee Faculty Senate representation

§         Faculty Senate Committees membership (Attachment B)

§         Expanding the faculty pool of committee members

 

  1. Academic Standards – Senator Petry
  2. Bent/Larson/Trachtenberg – Senator Russell
  3. Curriculum Committee – Chair Weinholtz
  4. Constitution – Senator Decker (Attachment C)
  5. Environmental Task Force – Senator Borucinska
  6. Professional Standards – Senator Shepela (Attachment D)
  7. Student Affairs – Senator Oliver
  8. Conversation with President Harrison and Provost Voelker
  1. Orders of the Day                                                                                                  1:50 p.m.

 

Thursday, September 13

  1. Reconvene                                                                                                              12:15 p.m.
  2. Part-time Faculty -- Senator Siegel, Prof. Stewart (Attachment E)
  3. The Campus Safety Committee
  4. Donald Rizzo, Vice President for Institutional Advancement
  5. Other Business – New Business

--Benefits Task Force to present at October meeting

 

  1. 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.”