Faculty Senate Meeting

When

3 – 5 p.m., Jan. 29, 2024

Where

Silver and Sage Room-Old Main
  1. Call to order
     
  2. 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. 
     
  3. Approval of the minutes for the December 4 and December 11, 2023 Faculty Senate Meetings (2 minutes)
     
  4. Open Session. Time limit is 2 minutes. Maximum number of speakers is four. No comments or votes will be taken. Ryan Winet, Senator Ted Downing, Senator Joellen Russell, Senator Steven Schwartz (8 minutes)
     
  5. Action Item: Consent Agenda - Chair of Undergraduate Council, Holly Nelson, and Co-chairs of Graduate Council, Hong Cui and Sanlyn Buxner (10 minutes) 
    BS in Neuroscience and ABOR Summary
    BS in Artificial Intelligence and ABOR Summary
    BS in Nursing - Collaborative Education and ABOR Summary
    BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology and ABOR Summary
    MS in Marriage and Family Therapy and ABOR Summary
    MA in Sport and Recreation Leadership and ABOR Summary
     
  6. Statement from the Chair  - Chair of the Faculty, Leila Hudson (10 minutes)
     
  7. Report from the President, Q&A for the President Regarding Progress on Financial Plans – President Robert Robbins and Interim CFO John Arnold (30 minutes)
     
  8. Old Business
    A. Update on the Financial Recalibration Committee – Committee Chair, Gary Rhoades (See Item #7 above) (15 minutes)
    B. RII Centers such as AstroBiology - Interim Senior Vice President of Research, Innovation, and Impact Elliot Cheu (15 minutes)
     
  9. New Business
    A. Athletics update/FAR Report – Chair of the Faculty, Leila Hudson and Professor and Head, Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, Faculty Athletics Representative, Ricardo Valerdi (10 minutes)
    B. Resolution on Shared Governance - Senator Ted Downing (5 minutes)
     
  10. 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
     

  11. Adjournment at precisely 5:00 p.m. 

    ∗Proposed Addition to the agenda postponed from the December 4, 2023 agenda

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