C11 Fall Meetings 2026

OPEN MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT & AGENDA

COMMITTEE OF ELEVEN

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Friday, 28 August 2026

1:00-2:30 PM

Via ZOOM with Open Chat area

Mirroring Arizona’s Open Meeting principles: the meeting will be open

Online via Zoom: https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bQaYNLOKT8yIniDd2BVHrQ 

Host: sabrinasmith@arizona.edu

Call to Order - Interim Chair Dr. Laura Hollengreen, Interim Vice-Chair Ted Downing

Welcome and Introductions – Chair

Approval of the Agenda – Chair

Chair Emeritus nomination + vote

Housekeeping: Meeting modalities and engagement; Meeting time and format

Attendance: dates below for your calendar

Division of labor proposal. Dualities with deadlines – Hollengreen and Downing

Issues for Discussion and Planning

1. Academic and educational activities

        a) Admissions processes and reputational decline

        b) Responses to enrollment declines – Hollengreen

        c) AI engagement in teaching, research, and operations – Downing and Jens

2. Faculty personnel matters

       a) Due process in hiring

       b) Promotion based on peer review

       c) Sidelining of CAFT – Hudson

3. University Governance and Policy

       a) Faculty’s voice in who speaks for the university

       b) New federal letter to the UA

       c) Reorganization. Health Care reorg updates – Witte and Adler

       d) Partnerships, e.g. new institutes: Kyl, Critical Minerals, Fusion Energy – Hudson

       e) Non-compliance with mandated policy consultation and approval processes

       f) Fiscal matters

       g) Financial policy changes, centralization, and powering down SPBAC –Hymel and            Hudson

       h) Travel policy changes – Hudson

       i) Endowment payout change update – Witte and Hudson

       j) Management

       k) Administrator searches and hiring – Hudson

       l) Increased centralization as adaptive response to external threats -- Downing

       m) Privacy. Email policy change update – Downing and Hudson

4. Other issues from the floor?

       a) Election scheduling

Adjournment

Future meetings: Mark your calendars!

Fall 2026 August 28          Spring 2027: January 15 and 29

September 11 and 25                           February 12 and 26

October 9 and 23                                                  March 19

November 6 and 20                                April 2, 16, and 30

December 4

C11 – the “Committee of Eleven” is an eleven faculty members and student representatives investigates, initiates, promotes, and stimulates actions to overarching University of Ariona issues. Founded on the eve of World War II, C11 is elected by and reports to the General Faculty. The Faculty Constitution authorizes it to speak on behalf of the General Faculty. Its meetings are open and on the internet. Committee members profiles on https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/committee-eleven.