REGULAR MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE

 

 

OCTOBER 3, 2011 – 104 GORE HALL

 

 

 

 

September 22, 2011

 

 

TO:                  Senators and Executives

 

FROM:            Belinda Orzada, Vice President  

                        University Faculty Senate

 

SUBJECT:       Regular Faculty Senate Meeting October 3, 2011

 

            In accordance with Section IV, paragraph 6 of the Constitution, the regular meeting of the University Faculty Senate will be held on Monday, October 3, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in 104 Gore Hall.  The General Faculty meeting will be held this month as well.  This meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. just prior to the Faculty Senate meeting, and will also be held in 104 Gore Hall.   Please make every effort to attend this meeting.

 

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:

 

AGENDA

 

 

I.                   Adoption of the Agenda

 

II.                Approval of the Minutes: September 12, 2011

 

III.             Remarks: Provost Tom Apple

 

IV.              Announcements: Senate President Jeff Jordan

Reports by:

                                                Hans-Jörg Busch, Chair, Adhoc Committee on Calendar Issues at UD

                                                Jack Baroudi, Promotions and Tenure

 

V.                 Consent Agenda

 

    1. Announcements for Challenge:  None

 

VI.              Regular Agenda

 

1.      Unfinished Business: 

 

a.   Resolutions:

 

1.      Recommendation from the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Rules Committee (Anu Sivaraman, Chair) for the revision to the Constitution of the Faculty of the University of Delaware Section IV provision 6 (attachment 1)

 

 

Whereas,          there has not been a regular meeting of the Faculty Senate during the month of January since at least 2000, be it therefore

 

Resolved,         that the UD FACULTY CONSTITUTION be amended to eliminate the requirement for a regular meeting of the Faculty Senate during January.

 

                   2.  Recommendation from the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Rules Committee (Anu Sivaraman, Chair) for the revision to the Faculty Handbook Section I provision V  (attachment 1)

 

 

                        Whereas,          there has not been a regular meeting of the Faculty Senate during the month of January since at least 2000, and,

 

                        Whereas,          legal holidays occasionally occur on the first Monday on the month, be it therefore

 

Resolved,         that the UD FACULTY HANDBOOK be amended to no longer require during January a regular meeting of the Faculty Senate, and no longer require the meeting to be the first Monday of the month.

 

 

2.      New Business:          

 

a.         Confirmation of Appointments  (attachment)

 

 

VII.     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