Faculty Senate Meeting

1.  Call to order. 
    
2. Approval of the Agenda: Vice Chair of the Faculty, Presiding Officer Mona Hymel (30 discretionary minutes will be allotted) Time limits will be enforced. (2 minutes)
    
3. Action Item: Senate Elections for University Committee on Ethics and Commitment, Committee on Conciliation, University Hearing Board, Shared Governance Review Committee, Grievance Clearinghouse Committee, Senate Executive Committee (Voting via OpaVote) (5 minutes)
    
4. Approval of the minutes of April 7, 2025 (2 minutes)
    
5. Open Session. Julio Cammarota, Matthew Abraham, Senator Lucy Ziurys, and Wolfgang Fink. Time limit is 2 minutes. Maximum number of speakers is four. No comments or votes will be taken. (8 minutes)
    
6. Report from the Chair of the Faculty – Leila Hudson (10 minutes)
    
7. Report from President Garimella and Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Helena Rodrigues. (20 minutes)
    
8. Report from the Provost – Interim Provost Ron Marx (10 minutes)
    
9. Consent agenda: Co-chairs of the Undergraduate Council, Joost van Haren and Lisa Rezende and Co-chairs of Graduate Council, Philip Waddell and Sanlyn Buxner (5 minutes)
   Proposal BS in Science-Law
   Proposal UG Minor AI and Society
   Repeating a course and grading for repeated courses and benchmarking
   Proposal New Academic Unit-Department of ENT-COM-P
   Proposal BS in MDAA
    
10. Old Business
    A. Vote on Constitution and Bylaws changes with PowerPoint – Secretary of the Faculty, Katie
         Zeiders (5 minutes)
    B. General Education policy proposal-core-writing-math – UWGEC Chair, 
        Jeremy Vetter (10 minutes)
        General Education policy proposal-core-writing-math
        Math & Writing Foundations benchmarking-combined
     
11. New Business
    A. UA Staff Council Workplace Climate Report survey results – UASC Vice
         President, Danielle Barefoot (10 minutes)
    B. C11 concerns regarding Conflict of Commitment and outside employment:
         Timeline and supporting documents – Matthew Abraham (5 minutes)
    C. Discussion on Arbitrary Reassignment of Endowed Chairs – C11 member,
         Senator Marlys Witte (20 minutes)
    D. Statement of student concerns – Co-chairs of the Student Affairs Policy
        Committee, Kristin Little and Tim Ottusch (5 minutes)
    E. Athletics update – Faculty Athletics Representative, Ricardo Valerdi (10 minutes)
    F. Announcement of Senate Election Results (5 minutes)
     
12. Written reports from the APPC, ASUA, C11, Constitution and Bylaws Committee, Faculty Officers, Gen Ed Office with UWGEC, GPSC, Graduate Council, President, Provost, RPC, SAPC, SGRC, SPBAC, UA Staff Council, Undergraduate Council, University Community Relations Committee 
     
13. Adjournment             

NOTIFICATION ONLY
Request to Disestablish Subplans in ARCHMS
Request to Disestablish NURSMS PNP
Request to disestablish NURSMS PDNPR
Request to Disestablish NURSMS FNP
Request to Disestablish NURSDNP FPMHNP
Request to Disestablish NURSDNP ANPR
Request to Rename Academic Unit UME
Military Science Request to Merge Org Units UA
Request for a Transfer of Ownership for Software Engineering Program
(from SIE to ECE)

COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORTS

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