University Senate Executive Committee Agenda, September 9, 2005

UNIVERSITY SENATE
Executive Committee

AGENDA
September 9, 2005 - 1:10 p.m.

1. Chairperson’s Report

2. Secretary’s Report

E-mail from Senator Brigid Farrell, dated August 5, 2005, regarding sexual assault crimes and dating violence
E-mail from Senator Peter Simmons, dated September 7, 2005, requesting that Senate committee(s) review the American Council on Education, (Office of Women in Higher Education) and the Alfred O. Sloan Foundation report entitled "An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty Careers"

3. Administrative Liaison

4. Report of the Task Force on Undergraduate Education, and Distribution of Related Charges to Senate Standing Committees

Proposed Preliminary Charge to All Standing Committees on Task Force Report: Discuss at the September 16, 2005 committee meeting the Report of the Task Force on Undergraduate Education. Prepare a list of suggestions as to which aspects of the report would be appropriately discussed in your committee, including some indication of your reasoning and perspective on each of those items. Forward that draft list to the Senate secretary no later than noon on Wednesday, September 21. The Senate Executive Committee will then, based on your suggestions, issue a specific charge to your committee before the September 30 Senate meeting, so you may begin work on a response to the Task Force report at your September 30 committee meeting. Deadline for this charge: September 21.

5. Other Standing Committee Actions, Reports and Charges

Proposed Charge to Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee: Review the status of full-time nontenure track faculty who are not clinical faculty. Consider whether changes in university regulations or policies should be proposed that would provide improved conditions for full-time nontenure track faculty with respect to length and continuity of appointment, reappointment, performance evaluation, governance rights, and access to internal research funding, in order to enhance the delivery of high-quality undergraduate education by this group of faculty. Recommend specific policy changes as appropriate. Recommend guidelines and general principles for proposals that might be formulated by the administration on these matters. (Charge drafted by Senator Boikess, as requested by the Executive Committee, June 2005.)

6. September 16, 2005 Senate Meeting Agenda:

Chairperson's Report and Introductions of Standing Committee Chairs – Chairperson Cotter
President McCormick’s Annual Address to the Community, Question-and-Answer Period, and Reception

7. September 30, 2005 Senate Meeting Agenda

8. Old Business

9. New Business

10. Adjournment