Tentative Agenda for the 22 January 2010

12:30-1:45 PM

President's Conference Room

ECUS with SCC

Anticipated Attendance:

Present: Dean Baker, Tanya Goette, Provost Sandra Jordan, President Dorothy Leland, Ken McGill, Craig Turner, Deborah Vess, Christine Zuger

Regrets: Karynne L M Kleine

Guests: Lee Digiovanni, Macon McGinley, Alison Prock, John Swinton, Catherine Whelan, Howard Woodard

Informational Items

1.   Informational Item for Standing Committee Chairs: 

            Standing Committee Vice Chairs will serve as a task force to consider standard review of policy.

            Karynne Kleine will charge them to draft some guiding principles as follow-up to conversation from 10-26-09 University Senate meeting.

2.   Informational Steering Items from 13 Jan 2010:  Minimum Transfer Student Admission to APC;  Comprehensive Program Review to CAPC

New Business:

1.   Call to order:  Ken McGill presiding (in the absence of Karynne L.M. Kleine)

2.   Agenda Coordination (Standing Committee Chairs)

3.   Clarify ECUS actions (if any) with regard to Staff Council replacement on RPIPC (Craig Turner)

4.   Feedback from Standing Committee Chairs on Governance Calendar 2010-2011 (specifically August and January meetings)  (Tanya Goette)

5.   Open discussion with Standing Committee Chairs on University Senate Officer (s)elections (Ken McGill)  [see New Business Item #1 from 4 Nov 2009]

6.  Discuss interest in plus/minus grading system expressed by Dean Baker on behalf of Nursing faculty in College of Health Sciences (Dean Baker)

        Possibly Steer this matter to a University Senate committee for consideration

7.  Proposed Reformatting of University-wide Committee Minutes by Shane Brooks/Barbara Monnett: Who Considers this?  (Craig Turner)

8.  On-line Motion Database Transition and Testing Informational Update (Craig Turner)

9.  Discuss Options for Selecting Point Person for Web Presence of University Senate (Ken McGill)

10. Set tentative agenda for upcoming ECUS meetings (27 Jan and 3 Feb)

11.  Other business

12.  Adjourn

Tentative Agenda for Next Work Session: 27 January 2010

   1.  Continue work with glossary terms (All who are able)

Tentative Agenda for 3 February 2010

   1.  Academic Calendar (Fall 2011-Spring 2013)

   2.  QEP/SACS Resolution