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SENATE From the Senate Office
March 13, 2007, Volume 53, No. 25

Under the Faculty Senate Rules, formal notification to members may be accomplished by publication in Almanac. The following is published under that rule.

TO:               Members of the Faculty Senate
FROM:         Barry Cooperman, Chair, Nominating Committee
SUBJECT:  Senate Nominations 2007-2008

1.   In accordance with the Faculty Senate Rules, official notice is given of the Senate Nominating Committee’s slate of nominees for the incoming Senate Officers. The nominees, all of whom have indicated their willingness to serve, are:

Chair-elect: Sherrill Adams (School of Dental Medicine)
Secretary-elect: Mindy Schuster (School of Medicine)

At-large Members of the Senate Executive Committee (SEC)* (to serve a 3-year term beginning upon election):

Karin McGowan (School of Medicine)
Dwight Jaggard (School of Engineering & Applied Science)
Sean Clarke (School of Nursing)

Two Assistant Professor Members of the Senate Executive Committee (to serve a 2-year term beginning upon election):

Christine Bradway (School of Nursing)
William Burke-White (School of Law)

Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (to serve a 3-year term beginning upon election):

Kermit Roosevelt (School of Law)
Paul Guyer (School of Arts and Sciences/Philosophy)
Andrew Rappe (School of Arts and Sciences/Chemistry)

Senate Committee on Economic Status of the Faculty * (to serve a 2-year term beginning upon election):

Anne O’Sullivan (School of Nursing)

* One At-large member of SEC and one member of the Senate Committee on Economic Status of the Faculty will be announced in an issue of Almanac later this spring.

2.   Again in accord with the Senate Rules you are invited to submit additional nominations, which shall be accomplished via petitions containing at least twenty-five valid names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received no later than fourteen days subsequent to the circulation of the nominees of the Nominating Committee. Petitions must be received by mail at the Faculty Senate, Box 12 College Hall/6303, or by hand at the Faculty Senate Office, 109 Duhring Wing by 5 p.m., Tuesday, March 27.

3.   Under the same provision of the Senate Rules, if no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Nominating Committee will be declared elected.

 

Special Meeting of the Senate (Open to all members of the Senate)
Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 2:30–2:50 p.m.

Annenberg School for Communication, Room 500 (Please Note Location)

1. Discussion and vote on Proposed Changes to the Senate Rules (see Almanac February 20)

SEC Agenda
Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 2:50–5 p.m.

1. Approval of the minutes of February 21, 2007 and January 24, 2007 (1 minute)
2. Chair’s Report (10 minutes)
3. Past Chair’s Report (3 minutes)
4.  Undergraduate Admissions Update (45 minutes)—Willis J. Stetson Jr., Dean of Admissions
5.  Discussion of School of Design Proposal: to add Senior Lecturer as types of faculty appointments
(30 minutes)—Dr. Gary Hack, Dean and Paley Professor;  Patricia M. Woldar, Associate Dean
6. Discussion of SEC meeting time change (10 minutes)
7.  New Business

Almanac - March 13, 2007, Volume 53, No. 25