Subject:                                 University Senate Meeting Report

Date:                                      25 October 2004

Committee:                           Executive Committee

Submitted by:                       Dr. Betty A. Block, Chair

• The Executive Committee has primarily been attending to procedural issues, questions and concerns from the President and community-at-large, and making decisions regarding whether or not things are policy. 
• We are pleased that many of you are beginning to use the US listserve to communicate with each other.  We are particularly happy to see that one proposal (that is coming to the Senate today) seems to have been fully vetted over the list serve.  We are also pleased that committees are conducting hearings on sensitive issues.  The communication process is beginning to work well.
• The Statutes and Bylaws team is continuing their work on paring down the Statutes and revising the Bylaws – the results of their work will give GC&SU more autonomy from the Board of Regents approval process and will begin the awesome task of creating a single operating procedures manual for the university.  JW will keep you updated as decisions are deliberated.  Please give this group your ideas as they share with you what they are doing.
• The Committee on Nominations needs to meet soon and run an election to elect a Senator at-large.  Bob Wilson, who is finishing his second term, will be teaching out of the country this spring and needs to be replaced.  According to the By-laws, the new Senator must be elected in the same manner in which Bob was elected.  I will be contacting the members of the committee this week so that we can elect a chair and get the election process started.
• The By-laws state that the Executive Committee shall obtain a list of the Corps of Instruction by October 1^st (which we did, thank you Dr. Gormly) and apportion the 34 University Senate elected faculty positions among the Schools and the Library/General Division.  Craig Turner will now come forward and explain the method of apportionment we used. Apportionment Report (pdf, excel)