REGULAR MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE
TO: Senators and Executives
FROM: Belinda Orzada, Vice President
University Faculty Senate
SUBJECT: Regular
Faculty Senate Meeting
In accordance with Section IV, paragraph 6 of the Constitution, the regular meeting of the University Faculty Senate will be held on Monday, December 5, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in 104 Gore Hall.
I certify that hard copies of the approval page for each undergraduate and graduate studies academic item on the agenda are filed in the Faculty Senate Office with the appropriate signatures of approval up through the Chair of the Faculty Senate Coordinating Committee on Education. The Agenda will be as follows:
I.
Adoption of the Agenda
II. Approval of the Minutes: November 7, 2011
III. Remarks: Provost Tom Apple
IV. Announcements: Senate President Jeff Jordan
Reports: Tom Ilvento – Chair, RBB Ad hoc Committee
Molly Sullivan – Undergraduate Student Senator
V. Consent Agenda
VI.
Regular Agenda
1. Resolutions:
a. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Rules (Anu Sivaraman, Chairperson) for the request to increase the number of Senate seats (attachment) (attachment)
WHEREAS, when the University Faculty Senate was established in 1970 there were about 550 faculty and some 40 departments on this campus, but there are now twice as many faculty and about 50 departments, representing a considerably wider diversity of fields now than 40 years ago; and
WHEREAS, many faculty wish to elect a senator from their own department to represent knowledgeably their departmental interests in the University Faculty Senate, as has long been the practice in the College of Arts and Sciences and some other colleges; and
WHEREAS, the current limit of 50 elected senators originally prescribed by the University Faculty Constitution in 1970, and never increased since then, may soon make it impossible for the faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences and some other colleges to continue to elect one senator from each department; be it therefore,
RESOLVED, that Section IV-2 of the University of
Delaware Faculty Constitution be amended to increase from 50 to 60 the number
of elected faculty senators, to take effect at the beginning of Academic Year
2012-2013.
b. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Rules (Anu Sivaraman, Chairperson) with the concurrence of the Executive Committee (Jeff Jordan, Chairperson) for the approval of a resolution concerning the Academic Reorganization of the University of Delaware
WHEREAS, it is important that the University exhibits complete transparency during the restructuring of colleges and other academic units,
WHEREAS, change in academic structure is an issue that benefits from as much input as possible,
WHEREAS, faculty and other personnel who have a vested interest in such proposed changes should have the opportunity to not only be aware of such proposal but to be afforded sufficient time to enter into debate, be it therefore
RESOLVED, that any proposal to restructure a college or any other academic unit initiated either by an academic unit or by the Provost or any other person in a senior leadership position at the UD be communicated in writing to the Faculty Senate, and the Deans, the chairs and the faculty directly impacted by such proposal within 10 (business) days of the initial public (campus) declaration of the proposal in any format.
2. Unfinished
Business: None
3. New Business:
VIII. Introduction of New Business
Such items as may come before the Senate. (No motion introduced under new business, except a motion to refer to committee, shall be acted upon until the next meeting of the Senate.)
/khs