U. Senate Executive Committee Agenda, June 5, 2009

UNIVERSITY SENATE
Executive Committee
AGENDA
June 4, 2010 - 1:10 p.m.

1. Chairperson’s Report

2. Secretary’s Report

Approval of Minutes of April 9, 2010 Senate Executive Committee Meeting
Approval of Minutes of April 30, 2010 Senate Regular Meeting [Note: The Executive Committee approves the last 2009-2010 Senate Minutes on behalf of the Senate because that Senate does not meet again.]
Communications:

President McCormick's Response to Senate ASRAC Recommendations on Charge S-0807, Add/Drop Period
President McCormick's Response to Senate on ASRAC Recommendations on Charge S-1003, Fall 2010 Academic Calendar
Final, Revised Policy to be Implemented on Procedures for Special Student Organizations (Referendum Guidelines) received from Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory Blimling on June 3, 2010.

3. Administrative Liaison

Administrative Report

4. Standing Committees

Selection/Nomination of Standing Committee Chairs [Committee rosters for 2009-10 are online, and will be distributed in hardcopy at the meeting. Chairs will be nominated or assigned at this meeting. Draft committee rosters for 2010-11 will be distributed at the meeting, and will be finalized over the summer.]

Faculty and Personnel Affairs Committee Response to the Administration's Request for Further Information on FPAC's Report on E-mail Privacy adopted by the Senate in November 2004. Follow this link to read the President's Response to the November 2004 FPAC report.

Review/Continuation of Current Pending Charges [Note: Charges approved by the Executive Committee in March or April 2010 will be added to the online "Current Pending Charges" webpage, and issued to the committees, in September, after the committee rosters are finalized.]

Discussion of Additional Issues for 2010-11 Senate/Committee Consideration

Submitted by Senator and 2010-11 Executive Committee Member Leslie Fishbein:

Improving Form 1a to make it more user-friendly and usable.
Improving the orientation of new faculty members and facilitating their ability to perform their duties in a timely fashion.
Reconsidering the extension of the add-drop period.
Need for a review of current information, data, and media systems to insure that they are as modernized as we can afford them to be and that they communicate well with one another.

5. Old Business

Draft Mission Statement for Ad Hoc Shared Governance Task Force, Comments Received on the Draft Mission Statement in March 2010, and documents from the 1998-99 Senate Revitalization Committee.

6. New Business

7. Adjournment