ECUS Meeting

Thursday August 16, 2007

9:30 – 10:50 President’s Conference Room

Tentative Agenda

Regrets: President Leland

 

1.   Call to order

2.   Information Items

a.   President’s Update – (President Leland) INCLUDING CAPC Presidential Appointment

b.   Graduate Assistant Position for 2007-2008 University Senate Update – (Craig)

c.   Review and Feedback on myCATS University Senate Tab (DRAFT 3) – (Craig)

3.   Action Items

a.   Naming Facilitators for August 24, 2007 organizational standing committee meetings – (Craig)

o       At these meetings, officers (Vice-Chair, Secretary) are elected. 

o       Nominees:  Chairs elected April 30, 2007 of the respective committees

o       APC - Jan Clark

o       CAPC - Deborah Vess

o       FAPC - Todd Shiver

o       RPIPC - Doug Oetter

o       SAPC - Jennifer Hammack

b.   Naming Parliamentarian for 2007-08.  ***  Nominee:  Dr. Ken Farr  – (Craig)

c.   Finalize Agenda for August 27, 2007 University Senate meeting – (Craig)

·        President’s Report and six committee reports (AGC, CAPC, ECUS, FAPC, RPIPC, SAPC)

·        Include Parliamentary Procedure Workshop facilitated by Dr. Ken Farr as part of ECUS report.

·        Have ECUS report be last on the agenda.

  1. Finalize ECUS Operating Procedures (drafted by elected faculty of ECUS on 08-01-07) – (Craig)
  2. Guidance Documents for Standing Committees to provide relevant institutional and BoR policy

·        APC – Kendra Russell

·        CAPC – Chris Greer

·        FAPC – Craig Turner

·        RPIPC – Doug Goings

·        SAPC – Bill Richards

  1. Senate Taglines: E=MC2  Enhancing the Mission; Catalyst for Communication, Making Connections, Moving Forward Together
  2. ECUS Vision (Rough Draft from 05-01-07)

·         Finding the Right Cargo

o        Proactive Interaction with Constituency

o        Listing Policy for Committees to allow them a Menu of Policy to Review (Guidance)

o        Identification of Issues that Matter

·         Education

o        Committee Scopes (What does each committee do?)

o        Committee Reports (What are the components of a committee report)

o        Parliamentary Procedure and Robert’s Rules

  1. Planning: SCO Orientation (Fri 09-14-07), 1st Joint SCC/ECUS (Th 08-30-07), School/Library Elections

4.   Steering Function Items (No items identified at this time)

a. Scholarly Misconduct Policy and Procedure – (Craig)   Likely Steer to RPIPC (or possibly FAPC)

Draft prepared by: Mike Whitfield (chair), Bee Crews, Mike Gleason, Tom Moore, Roy Moore, Craig Turner

1. Informal Screening (Chair IRB (Doug Keith) serves as Research Integrity Officer)  2. Inquiry (5 unbiased faculty selected by ECUS)

3. AVPAA (Roy Moore)  receives inquiry report and considers whether investigation is needed

    Investigation Committee: 9 SoLAS, 3 SoE, 3 SoB, 3 SoHS, 1 Library * Cull Conflict of Interest * Randomly Select 7 * Strikes to 5

4. VPAA (Anne Gormly) receives investigation report and considers and applies administrative actions (corrective actions or sanctons)

5. APPEAL (two levels – institutional to University President  university system to BoR per BoR policy)

 

5.   DRAFT Tentative Agenda for Next ECUS Meeting (Thurs Aug 23,  9:30 - 10:45)

Senate Calendar Items:

Fri Aug 24  Organizational Meetings of Standing Committees to elect officers   (Fri Sep 7 Standing Committee Meetings)

Mon, Aug 27 Meeting of the 2007-2008 University Senate

6.   Adjourn