When
3 – 5 p.m., Nov. 4, 2024
Where
Old Main Silver and Sage Room
- Call to order.
- Approval of the Agenda: Vice Chair of the Faculty, Presiding Officer Mona Hymel (5 minutes) Please note that time limits will be enforced with Presiding Officer’s discretion to allocate a total of 30 minutes to be distributed to individual items as necessary.
- Welcome to President Suresh Garimella (10 minutes) (This item was moved from Agenda Item #6)
- Approval of the minutes for the October 7, 2024 Faculty Senate Meeting. (2 minutes)
- Open Session. Kian Alavy, Senator Duarte Diaz, Senator Lucy Ziurys. Time limit is 2 minutes. Maximum number of speakers is four. No comments or votes will be taken. (8 minutes)
- Statement from the Chair of the Faculty, Leila Hudson (10 minutes)
- Report from the Provost – Interim Provost Ron Marx (10 minutes)
- Old Business
A. Draft Resolution Involving Speech: Rights and Responsibilities, Chair of the Faculty, Leila Hudson (10 minutes)
B. Department Head queries re IT/HR centralization, Senator Shufang Su (5 minutes)
- New Business
A. Proposal to create a separate Department of Dermatology from the Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. Clara Curiel and Senator Marv Slepian (5 minutes)
B. Multi-year appointments, Secretary of the Faculty, Katie Zeiders (10 minutes)
C. Timeline, Current Priorities, and Upcoming Issues in General Education, Senator Susan Miller-Cochran (10 minutes)
D. Report from ad hoc General Education Committee, Committee Chair, Mark Stegeman (15 minutes)
E. Update and Presentation from the ad hoc Committee on Campus Climate – Chair, Matthew Abraham (10 minutes)
- Written reports from the President, Provost, Faculty Officers, APPC, RPC, SAPC, DEI, Constitution and Bylaws Committee, SGRC, Graduate Council, Undergraduate Council, SPBAC, ASUA, GPSC, UArizona Staff Council, Gen Ed Office with UWGEC, C11 (2 minutes)
- Adjournment at precisely 5:00 p.m.