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Faculty Senate Executive Committee Meeting

Minute

Meeting #21

February 14, 2005

1. The meeting was called to order at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, February 14, 2005 in the third floor conference room in Green Hall, Chairperson Boudreaux-Bartels presiding. All members were present.

2. The Minutes of Executive Committee Meeting #19, February 2, 2005 were approved as revised.

3. Announcements/Correspondence:

a. The Agenda for the February 16 meeting of the Council of Deans was circulated for information.

b. Chairperson Boudreaux-Bartels announced that Senator Leo had requested a meeting with the Executive Committee to discuss military recruitment on campus and a possible resolution or motion he was considering proposing under New Business at the February 24 Senate Meeting.

Ms. Grubman reported that she had invited Senator Leo to meet with the Executive Committee on February 23 at 2:00 p.m.

4. The Executive Committee reviewed the budget priorities recommended by the 2003-04 Executive Committee to the JSPC and discussed possible recommendations for the Fiscal '06 budget.

After discussion, Chairperson Boudreaux-Bartels asked each member of the Executive Committee to forward to the group a brief summary of the item(s) that he or she proposed should be on the list of budget priorities, which the group might use in drafting their list of priorities. These comments and suggestions would become the basis for further discussion by the Executive Committee.

5. The Executive Committee received a number of iterations of proposed language changes to questions and potential answers in the surveys proposed by Mr. Murphy for the URI program review model. These included notes from discussions by Chairperson Boudreaux-Bartels and Senators Martin and Rice, notes from the subcommittee's January 26th meeting with Assistant Provost Katz and Ms. Morrissey, notes forwarded to Chairperson Boudreaux-Bartels that morning from Assistant Provost Katz and additional notes forwarded by Provost Swan later that morning.

Discussion ensued on each question, potential answers, and point allocation in the "Values" portion of the survey, whether the text was clear and had been adequately explained. The agreed upon ending time of the meeting arrived before all of the survey suggestions could be discussed. Several FSEC members volunteered to take a comprehensive look at the suggested language changes, and to forward any comments via email to Chairperson Boudreaux-Bartels by Tuesday, February 22. Senators Rice, Martin and Boudreaux-Bartels agreed to meet on the morning of February 22 to compile and evaluate those suggestions and make recommendations at the February 23 FSEC meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:05pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Sheila Black Grubman