AGENDA

Friday 3 October 2003

• 12:30-1:00 p.m. Intertribal Drummers
• 1:00-1:10 Native American Blessing
• 1:10-1:30 Welcome SOU President Elisabeth Zinser and SOU Provost Earl Potter
• 1:30-2:15 View from the Senate: Senator Lenn Hannon
• 2:15-3:00 View from the Chancellor's Office: Chancellor Richard Jarvis
• 3:00-3:30 Refreshment Break
• 3:30-4:15 View from the House: Representative Alan Bates
• 4:15-4:30 Final remarks and wrap-up

Saturday 4 October 2003

• 7:45 - 8:15 Continental Breakfast
• 8:15 Call to Order, Minutes
• 8:20 Review of Friday Presentations
• 8:40 Review Legislative Session
• 9:00 Academic Council Report - Dan Edge 9:10 OUS Budget and Finance Committee, System Strategic Planning Committee, and Full Board Meeting
• 9:40 Report on Editorial Initiative; Proposal from Jim Earl
• 9:55 Faculty Member on OUS Board?
• 10:00 Break
• 10:15 PEBB and PERS - Comments From Membership
• 10:30 Action on Possible Repeal of Income Tax Surcharge
• 10:45 News from Each Campus
• 11:30 Nominating Committee Established for Election of Officers in December
• 11:40 Comments from PSU on December Meeting
• 11:50 Wrap-Up
• 12:00 Adjourn

Note that the Friday meeting will begin a little earlier than usual, to permit an informal drumming exhibition by our Native American contingent on campus. It will be followed by a traditional Native American Blessing or Invocation, and then welcome from President Elisabeth Zinser and Provost Earl Potter.

The meeting is in room 313 of the Stevenson Union, in easy walking distance of any place on University Way. Room 313 is on the second floor of the Union and is in the Northwest corner, and has a big sign "Senate Chambers.