UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD

FACULTY SENATE OFFICE, CC 314

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AGENDA

Faculty Senate

March 11 and 13, 2008

12:15 – 1:50 p.m., Auerbach, 426

Tuesday, March 11

1. Call to Order/Announcements – Chair Weinholtz

r Suspension of Admissions with intention to eliminate the ENHP Counseling Program (Discussion with ENHP Dean Dorothy Zeiser, and Interim Provost Joe Voelker, followed by a vote)

2. Presentations

r Interim Provost Joe Voelker - Update

r Jane Horvath, University Academic Director of Early College High School and Associate Dean of Curriculum and Academic Planning

· Status of High School experience in working with the University

· University Values Committee

3. Committees reports:

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

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

Thursday, March 13

5. Reconvene

r Proposal to elimination of Program – Sixth Year Certificate in Educational Leadership (discussion and vote)

r Proposal to suspend admissions to the HAS MFA Residence Program (discussion and vote)

6. Presentations

r President Walter Harrison – Update

r Vice President for Student Affairs, Lee Peters – First Year Student Success Center

7. Other Business

r Next meeting of the Faculty Senate will be April 8 and 10, 2008, 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.”