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

Election of ECUS Secretary

John R. Swinton

Yes

Reports

·         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

·         Approval of Operating Procedures for ECUS (see attached copy of 2014-15 procedures) MSWord  pdf

John R. Swinton

Yes

New Business

·         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.

Outline pdf  Committee Structure pdf  Timeline  pdf

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

         MSWord  pdf

·         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

·         Routing Parking issue (handout)   MSWord  pdf

Information Items

·         Department Name Change

No

o   Dept. of Theater to Dept. of Theater and Dance    MSWord  pdf

o   Philosophy and Liberal Studies (Program) to Department of Philosophy and Liberal Studies

       MSWord   pdf

·         Senate budget status

John R. Swinton

No