On May 12, 2005, the Faculty Senate adopted the following resolution in honor of Chairperson G. Faye Boudreaux-Bartels:

Whereas:

G. Faye Boudreaux-Bartels has provided the Faculty Senate with strong, fair and dignified leadership during the 2004-05 academic year, and

Whereas:

She has furthered the ideals of faculty governance with tact and diplomacy by:

• Leading the effort to develop a method for identifying the concerns of the university faculty staff and students and has advocated at every opportunity to promote solutions to these concerns;

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  Providing a full and open forum for, and patiently and impartially moderating often long and contentious discussions, including the Providence Campus legislation, the “Don’t ask-don’t tell” policy of the U.S. Armed Forces, the academic program and department review processes, and the University’s six-year calendar;

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  And working tirelessly spearheading the effort to replace the Program Contribution Analysis and the cumbersome Program Quality Review process with a customized University Academic Program Assessment model by listening to and balancing the concerns of faculty and administrators.  And

Whereas:

As the spokesperson for the Faculty Senate at the JSPC, she has ably articulated faculty priorities for inclusion within the University budget, raised awareness for interdisciplinary teaching, research and outreach activities, campaigned for ways to improve the university’s administrative processes and was instrumental in promoting faculty presence within the Master Planning Committee and the Web Advisory Committee.

Therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Senate expresses gratitude and appreciation for a job well done and regrets but understands her decision to give up her university-wide prominence by taking a leadership role within her department and college during the 2005-06 academic year.