Faculty Senate Meeting

When

3 – 5 p.m., Oct. 7, 2019
  1. Call to order
  2. Approval of the minutes of September 9, 2019. 2 minutes.
  3. Open Session: Statements at the Podium on any topic, limited to two minutes. Maximum number of speakers is four. No discussion is permitted, and no votes will be taken. 8 minutes.
  4. Q & A for ASUA, GPSC, APAC, CSC, RPC, APPC, SAPC reports. 5 minutes.
  5. Faculty Officers' Report with Q & A - Chair of the Faculty, Jessica Summers. 10 minutes.
  6. Provost's Report with Q & A - Provost Liesl Folks. 10 minutes.
  7. President's Report with Q & A - President Robert C. Robbins. 10 minutes.
  8. Information Item: First Draft Revision to the original Guidelines for Shared Governance Memorandum of Understanding - Vice Chair of the Faculty, Michael Brewer. 10 minutes.
  9. Information Items:
    1. Criteria and Process for determining General Faculty membership with insufficient UAccess data; 
    2. Global Professors and Lecturers;
    3. Historical breakdown of the General Faculty Membership - Vice Chair of the Faculty, Michael Brewer. 10 minutes.
  10. Information Item: Legislative update - Assistant Vice President for Government and Community Relations, Sabrina Vazquez. 25 minutes
  11. Information Item: Title IX update - Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and Title IX Administrator, Ron Wilson. 20 minutes.
  12. Action Item: Consent agenda - BA in Professional and Technical Writing; Undergraduate Minor in Population Health Data Science - Chair of the Undergraduate Council, Neel Ghosh. 5 minutes.
  13. Action Item: Approval for the formation of Senate Standing Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with PowerPoint - Chair of the Faculty, Jessica Summers. 10 minutes.
  14. Action Item: Topics for Senate - Rountable discussion. 15 minutes
  15. Other business. 2 minutes.
  16. Adjournment
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