Agenda
August 14, 2008, 11:00 am - 12:45 p.m.
Rudolph Jones Student Dining Center
Issued 8/13/08
1)
Call to order
2)
Adoption of agenda
3)
Approval of the minutes of the 4/17/08 meetings
4)
Senate Committees
The senate executive committee is putting forward the motion
that senate committees include ex-officio one (or possibly two) administration
members. If this motion passes, the following administrators will be invited to
join senate committees: Academic Affairs, Dr. Charles; Governance, Dr.
Blackshire-Belay; Student Affairs, Dr. Young; Faculty Evaluation and
Development, Dr. Blackshire-Belay; Faculty Welfare, Dr. Blackshire-Belay; IT,
Vice Chancellor Ganesan & Dr. Nworie; Budget & Planning, Vice
Chancellor Botley.
5)
Shared Governance Committee
The senate executive committee is putting forward the motion that
the Senate shall cooperate with administration in the formation of a new
committee to be called the FSU Shared Governance Committee. This committee will
be comprised of the members of the Faculty Senate Governance Committee and a
comparable number of administrators. This committee will be tasked with the
review of FSU policy, and the drafting of new policy and/or policy revisions as
required. The committee will report jointly to the Chancellor and the Faculty
Senate. Three items for immediate attention by this committee are the University’s
TPR Policy (including the possibility of reinstating a university wide TPR
committee); annual review of administrators at levels above department chairs;
and post-tenure review of faculty.
6)
Senate Committee composition
The chair of each senate committee will speak briefly on the
opportunities for service on his/her committee. Senators (and other faculty)
will then have the opportunity to put themselves in nomination for
consideration (by the senate committee on committees) for committee membership while
we take a break to obtain food from the cafeteria before resuming the meeting.
7)
Faculty Appointments to Chancellor's Installation
Committees
8)
Report from the Governance Committee on a 2008 revision
of the Senate Governance Document and Bylaws
9)
Report from the Governance Committee on reviving the
Faculty Handbook
10) Report from the
Task Force on Revising Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation
11) Report
from the senate chair on the BB&T grant to the business school
12) A
discussion of scheduling senate meetings for the 2008-2009 academic year
13) New
business
14) Adjournment