UNIVERSITY SENATE
Executive Committee
AGENDA
July 20, 2007 - 1:10 p.m.

1.    Chairpersons' Report

2.    Secretary’s Report

 [Note: The Executive Committee approves the last 2006-2007 Senate Minutes on behalf of the Senate because that Senate does not meet again.]
 
3.    Administrative Liaison 4.    Senate Budget Update [Senate operating budget information will be distributed in hardcopy at the meeting.]

5.    Volunteer to Serve as Newark Student Member of the Executive Committee:  Jonathan Becker, Law-Newark (Student)

6.    Standing Committees

Selection/Nomination of Standing Committee Chairs [Committee rosters] and Senate Parliamentarian(s): 

Ryan Cooke, SAS-NB (Student) has volunteered to serve as parliamentarian, and Yonaton Yares, SAS-NB (Student) has asked to be alternate parliamentarian.

Charges to be Issued [From April 2007 Executive Committee meeting. Charges will be issued in September to new committees and chairs.]

To University Structure and Governance Committee on Addition of Staff Issues to the Senate's Standing Committee Structure: Consider and make recommendations for modifying the Senate's standing committee structure or charges to include a means of addressing staff issues in a forum on par with the current faculty and student affairs counterparts. Refer to the proposal submitted by the Staff Caucus when deliberating on this matter.

Alternate charge proposed by Martha Cotter:  Consider and make recommendations for modifying the Senate's standing committee structure and/or charges to include a means of addressing staff issues in an appropriate manner. Consider the proposals submitted by the Staff Caucus and by Senator Martha Cotter when deliberating on this matter.  [Cotter's proposal]

To University Structure and Governance Committee on Addition of Institutional Climate Committee to the Senate's Standing Committee Structure: Consider and make recommendations for modifying the Senate's standing committee structure to include a means of addressing equal opportunity and other institutional climate or culture issues. Refer to the proposal submitted by the Staff Caucus when deliberating on this matter.

To Student Affairs Committee and/or University Structure and Governance Committee on Revising Student Charter Trustee Nomination and Election Process: Examine, and make recommendations for improving, the processes and policies related to nomination and election of Student Charter Trustees, and for efficiently communicating nomination and election information to students and student governing associations. [In the cover e-mail to the committee(s), Ken Swalagin will include background information, as well as instruction to consult with him, with the Secretary of the University/Boards, and with student Senator Brian Spatocco on this charge.]

To Budget and Finance Committee, at the request of Menahem Spiegel, committee chair:
Review/Continuation of Current Pending Charges

Discussion of Additional Issues for 2007-2008 Senate Consideration

7.    Update on SAS-NB Faculty Senator Entitlements and Terms

8.    Old Business

9.    New Business

10.  Adjournment