UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD

FACULTY SENATE OFFICE, CC 314

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AGENDA

Faculty Senate

May 8 and 13, 2008

12:15 – 1:50 p.m., Auerbach, 426

Thursday, May 8

  1. Call to Order/Announcements – Chair Weinholtz

r      Discussion and Possible Vote – Constitution-By Laws Committees Restructuring

r      Election of Budget Advisory Team member (BAT)

r      Election of Provost’s Committee on Promotion, Tenure, and Academic Freedom

r      Election of Faculty Senate Officers for 2008-2009

r      Confirmation of Officers as Faculty Regents

r      Authorizing Executive Committee to act for Senate until September Senate Meeting

 

  1. Presentations

r      Clean Up Public Spaces (CUPS) – Student Organization

 

  1. Committees reports:

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Academic Standards

Senator Elizabeth Petry

CETA

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BLT

Senator Ingrid Russell

A&S

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Computer

Senator Narendar Sumukadas

Barney

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Constitution

Senator Bob Decker

A&S

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Curriculum

Chair, Donn Weinholtz    (Attachment A)

 

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Development

Senator Ed Gray

A&S

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Faculty Diversity

Senator Darryl McMiller

Hillyer

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Grants

Senator Dennis Nolan

HAS

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International Studies

Senator Anne Comiskey

Hartt

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P/T Faculty

Senator Paul Siegel

A&S

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Prof. Standards

Senator Sharon Shepela

Hillyer

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Student Affairs

Senator Peter Oliver

ENHP

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Univ. Scholar

Senator Dan Williamson

Hillyer

 

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Environmental Task Force

Senator Joanna Borucinska

A&S
  1. Orders of the Day                                                                                                                                   1:50 p.m.

 

Tuesday, May 13

  1. Reconvene

 

  1. Presentations

r      President Walter Harrison – Update

r      Interim Provost Joe Voelker – Update

r      Dean of Graduate Studies Peter Diffley

 

  1. Other Business

r      Next meeting of the Faculty Senate will be September 9 and 11, 2008, 12:15 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

 

  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.”