Executive Committee of the University Senate (ECUS)

MEETING AGENDA

Scheduled for Friday, August 22, 2014 at 2:00 PM

Location: Parks 301

This agenda also available in   MSWord    pdf   format.

ITEM

PRESENTER

VOTE NEEDED?

Call to Order

Susan Steele

No

Approval of Agenda

All

Yes

Review and Approval of Previous Minutes (see attached)

Craig Turner    MSWord   pdf

Yes

Election of ECUS Secretary

Susan Steele

Yes

Reports

 

 

·         Presiding Officer

Susan Steele

No

·         Past Presiding Officer

Lyndall Muschell

No

·         Presiding Officer Elect

John Swinton

No

·         Secretary

Craig Turner       Excel

No

·         Library Senator

Ben Davis

No

Unfinished Business

 

 

·         Approval of Operating Procedures for ECUS (see attached copy of 2013-14 procedures) 

Susan Steele  

DRAFT MSWord  pdf

FINAL  MSWord  pdf

Yes

·         SoCC bylaws revision update

 

 

New Business

 

 

·         Subcommittee on Nominations appointments

 

Yes

·         Standing committee charges based on recommendations from 2013-14 (see attached recommendations abstracted from annual reports)

                      MSWord  pdf

 

·         Replacement of Catherine Whelan on Graduate task force

 

Yes

Information Items

 

 

·         Task Force Reports

Susan Steele

No

o   Associate Provost Search

o   Graduate Task Force

o   Technology-assisted instruction

·         Replacement of Alex Blazer by Katie Simon as Senator representing English & Rhetoric

Susan Steele

No

·         Replacement of Cathy Liu by Patrick Simmons on SoCC

Susan Steele

No

·         Senate budget status

Susan Steele

No

·         Choose Health event

Susan Steele

No

 

CALENDAR

University Senate – Friday, September 12 at 3:30 pm

ECUS – Friday, October 3 at 2:00 pm

ECUS with Standing Committees – Friday, October 3 at 3:30 pm