THE
UNIVERSITY
OF RHODE ISLAND
FACULTY SENATE
NUMBER 8
AGENDA
Regular Meeting of the Faculty
Senate on Thursday, May 14, 2009 in the Cherry Auditorium, Chester Kirk
Building
1. Call to order at 3:00 p.m.
2. Disposition
of Minutes of Faculty Senate Meeting #7, April 23, 2009 (http://www.uri.edu/facsen/FS_07m_4-23-09.html)
3. REPORTS
OF OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
A. Announcements.
B. Report of the Nominating Committee for Oficers
of the 2009-10 Faculty Senate (http://www.uri.edu/facsen/NomCom_09-10.pdf)
-- Professor Rathemacher
4. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT -- President Carothers
A. Status of Actions Forwarded to
the President:
Bills:
#08-09--21The Four Hundred Seventieth Report
of the Curricular Affairs Committee.
#08-09--22 Curricular Report
No. 2008-09-8 from the Graduate Council to the Faculty Senate.
#08-09--23 University College and General Education Committee
Report #2008-09-4.
Resolutions:
#08-09--6 Urgent Priority
for Library Funding.
#08-09--7 Support for Inclusion of the University Library in
the Strategic Plan.
#08-09--8
Support for Periodic
Review of URI's Research Classification and the Adequacy of Library Funding.
B. Announcements.
5. REPORTS OF STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES
A. The Four Hundred Seventy-First
Report of the Curricular Affairs Committee http://www.uri.edu/facsen/471_CAC.pdf)
-- Professor Mundorf
B. Curricular Report No. 2008-09-8A from
the Graduate Council to the Faculty Senate: Accelerated BS-MS Degrees in
Engineering (http://www.uri.edu/facsen/GC_CURRICULAR_REPORT_08-09-8A.pdf)
-- Dean Killingbeck
C. Curricular Report No. 2008-09-9 from
the Graduate Council to the Faculty Senate (http://www.uri.edu/facsen/GC_CURRICULAR_REPORT_08-09-9.pdf)
-- Dean Killingbeck
D. Academic Standards and Calendar Committee
Report #2008-09-3: Summer Session 200 (http://www.uri.edu/facsen/AS&C_08-09-3.pdf)
-- Senator DiCioccio
E. Report of the Learning Outcomes Oversight
Committee for 2008-09 (http://www.uri.edu/facsen/LOOC_08-09.pdf)
-- Professor Swift
F. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee
to Collaborate with the Administration on the
Site of the Proposed Research Park http://www.uri.edu/facsen/Research_Park_Final.pdf;
http://www.uri.edu/facsen/Research_Park_Appendices.htm
) -- Senator Swallow
6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
7. NEW BUSINESS