Meeting of the University Senate
Wednesday March 12, 2008
3:00 - 5:00 p.m., 150 Columbia

Agenda

3:00      Call to order

3:05 1. Approval of the minutes from February 1, 2008 meeting

3:10 2. State of the University
        2.1 Remarks from Frances Dyke -- vice president for finance and administration.

3:30 3. Reports
        3.1 Update on Senate Budget Subcommittee on Arena financing -- John Chalmers, chair, and Paul van Donkelaar, senate vice president
        3.2 Preliminary Winter 2008 Curriculum Report -- Paul Engelking, chair

3:50 4. Announcements and communications from the floor
        4.1 Appointment of Ad Hoc working committee pursuant to US 07/08-17 initiative to protect the rights of faculty authors of scholarly publications - Gordon Sayre, senate president
3:55 4.2 Proposal that faculty should be encouraged to make course syllabi available prior to the first day of classes -- Emily McClain, ASUO president
4:00 4.3 Update on Resolution US07/08-10 -- Franklin Stahl, emeritus biology, and Bertram Malle, psychology

4:05 5. Unfinished Business
        5.1 Resolution US07/08-13 concerning parking issues raised by the arena project - Peter Keyes, architecture
4:25 5.2 Motion US 07/08-7 (revised) - regarding changes to the required questions on course evaluations - Paul van Donkelaar, vice president

4:55 6. New Business
        6.1 Resolution US 07/08 - 18 - regarding the investigation of recent actions in the Office of International Affairs -- Senator Ron Davies, economics. The motion has been withdrawn.

5:00 Adjournment



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