Executive Committee of the University Senate (ECUS) MEETING AGENDA Scheduled for Friday, September 4, 2015 at 2:00 PM Location: Parks 301 |
ITEM |
PRESENTER |
VOTE NEEDED? |
Call to Order |
John R. Swinton |
No |
Approval of Agenda |
All |
Yes |
Review and Approval of Previous ECUS Minutes (approved by email vote) |
See attached |
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Election of ECUS Secretary |
John R. Swinton |
Yes |
Reports |
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· Presiding Officer |
John R. Swinton |
No |
· Past Presiding Officer |
Susan Steele |
No |
· Presiding Officer Elect |
Chavonda Mills |
No |
· Secretary |
Craig Turner |
No |
· Library Senator |
Jolene Cole (regrets) |
No |
Unfinished Business |
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· Approval of Operating Procedures for ECUS (see attached copy of 2014-15 procedures) MSWord pdf |
John R. Swinton |
Yes |
New Business |
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· Consider a plan for drafting a proposed bylaws revision to clean up the language pertaining to elected faculty senator eligibility (years of service). |
Craig Turner |
Yes |
· Formally appoint SCoN and its chair so that this will be documented formally in ECUS minutes. Informally, we are acting as if Chavonda is SCoN Chair. We may want to propose that recent practice (appointing SoCC Chair to SCoN) be added to Minimal membership in V.Section1.D.1,a. |
Craig Turner |
Yes |
· Georgia College’s next strategic plan process. |
Costas Spirou (for Provost) |
No |
· Routing Items from Retreat: |
John R. Swinton |
No |
· Resolution to adopt AAUP guiding principles · Task force on Revision of Policies and Procedures for curriculum review · Resolution to adopt and periodically review “Draft Governance History” and remove draft from title · Reconsider policies concerning requests for services from 10 month employees during summer months. · Elected Senate Rep on LARP · Adopt the University Senate Handbook as circulated this year · Appointing a Georgia College Story Archivist |
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Information Items |
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· Department Name Change |
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No |
o Philosophy and Liberal Studies (Program) to Department of Philosophy and Liberal Studies |
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· Senate budget status |
John R. Swinton |
No |
CALENDAR
University Senate – Friday, September 18 at 3:30 pm
ECUS – Friday, October 2 at 2:00 pm
ECUS with Standing Committees – Friday, October 2 at 3:30 pm