UNIVERSITY
OF RHODE ISLAND
FACULTY SENATE
NUMBER 2
FACULTY SENATE
AGENDA
Regular Meeting of
the
Faculty Senate on Thursday, October 23, 2008 in the Cherry Auditorium,
Chester
Kirk Building
1. Call
to order
at 3:00 p.m.
2. Disposition of Minutes of Faculty Senate Meeting #1, September 25, 2008
(http://www.uri.edu/facsen/FS_01m_9-25-08.html)
3. REPORTS
OF
OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
A.
Announcements
B. Activities
of the
Executive Committee (Meetings #3, http://www.uri.edu/facsen/FSEC_03m08-09.htm,
#4, http://www.uri.edu/facsen/FSEC_04m08-09.htm,
and #5, http://www.uri.edu/facsen/FSEC_05m08-09.htm)
-- Vice Chairperson Costello
C. Recommendation of the Executive Committee -- Vice Chairperson
Costello:
That the Faculty Senate consider informally various models of alternative funding for the University.
(http://www.uri.edu/facsen/Alternative_Funding_links.htm)
D.
Report on the Presidential Search -- Chairperson Martin
4. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT -- President Carothers
5. REPORTS OF STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES
A. The Four
Hundred Sixty-Third Report of the Curricular Affairs Committee (http://www.uri.edu/facsen/463_CAC.pdf)
-- Professor Mundorf
B.
Curricular Report No. 2008-2009-1
from the Graduate Council to the Faculty Senate (http://www.uri.edu/facsen/GC_CURRICULAR_REPORT_08-09-1.pdf)--
Dean Killingbeck
C.
Curricular
Report No. 2008-2009-2 from the Graduate Council to the Faculty Senate (http://www.uri.edu/facsen/GC_CURRICULAR_REPORT_08-09-2.pdf)
-- Dean Killingbeck
D.
University College
and General Education Committee Report #2008-09-1 (http://www.uri.edu/facsen/UCGE_08-09-1.pdf)
--
Senator Hicks.
7. UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
8. NEW
BUSINESS