Faculty Senate Meeting

When

3 – 5 p.m., Nov. 6, 2023

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 of the September 26, 2023 and October 2, 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. Michael McKenna, Thomas Christiano, Senator Marlys Witte, Senator Katie Zeiders. (8 minutes)
     
  5. Statement from the Chair (10 minutes)
     
  6. Report from the President – President Robert Robbins (10 minutes)
     
  7. Report from the Provost – Interim Provost Ron Marx (10 minutes)
     
  8. Report from Interim Vice President and Chief Safety Officer, Steve Patterson (10 minutes)
     
  9. Action Item: Consent Agenda (5 minutes)
    A. Proposal Emancipatory Education Graduate Minor, Chair of the Graduate Council, Ron Hammer 
    B. General Education Attributes Policy Amendment, 
         General Education Curriculum Policy Amendment, 
         Credit for Prior Learning proposal and benchmarking, 
         Grades and Grading System proposal and benchmarking, Chair of Undergraduate Council, Holly Nelson
     
  10. Old Business:
     A. Resolution concerning filling newly created Faculty Senate Seats – Secretary of the Faculty, 
         Tessa Dysart. (10 minutes)
     B. Apportionment of Faculty Senate seats – Senator Ted Downing (10 minutes)
     C. Financial Recalibration Committee Report and questions – Chair of the Financial Recalibration                 Committee, Gary Rhoades. (10 minutes)
     
  11.  New Business:
    Developments with the Committee on Donor Influence – Chair of the Faculty, Leila Hudson, and Freedom Center Director, Mary Rigdon (15 minutes)
    Committee Report
    Freedom Center Response to Report
    McKenna Letter to Faculty Senate
    Maloney Letter to Faculty Senate
    Philosophy Department Response
    Maloney Letter to Hudson 
     
  12. 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 (10 Minutes)
     
  13. Adjournment at precisely 5:00 p.m.

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