From gilkey@darkwing.uoregon.edu Wed Sep 29 19:36:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: from darkwing.uoregon.edu (root@darkwing.uoregon.edu [128.223.142.13]) by noether.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00160; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:36:28 -0700 Received: from darkwing.uoregon.edu (d37-36.uoregon.edu [128.223.37.36]) by darkwing.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA21927; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:36:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37F2CCB0.F53A6121@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:37:08 -0700 From: Peter B Gilkey Reply-To: gilkey@darkwing.uoregon.edu Organization: Math Dept University of Oregon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tublitz@uoneuro.uoregon.edu, westling@law.uoregon.edu, provost@oregon.uoregon.edu, twheeler@oregon.uoregon.edu CC: gwens@oregon.uoregon.edu, pres@oregon.uoregon.edu, tedards@oregon.uoregon.edu, dfrank@oregon.uoregon.edu, hubin@oregon.uoregon.edu Subject: Senate Budget Committee Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO TO: Wayne Westling (Convener of the Senate Budget Committee) Thomas Wheeler (Potential member of the Senate Budget Committee) Nathan Tublitz (Member of the Senate Budget Committee) John Moseley (Provost of the University and ex-officio member of the Senate Budget Committee) The Senate Executive Committee this afternoon recommended the appointment of Nathan Tublitz and Thomas Wheeler to serve a 3 year term on the Senate Budget Committee. Nathan has agreed to serve and it is with great pleasure that I appoint him to the committee. Thomas is considering the matter carefully and I expect will be contacting Professor Wayne Westling and Provost John Moseley to find out exactly what is involved in serving on the committee. I hope very much that Thomas agrees to serve. If he does, the four of you will comprise the Senate Budget Committee. Should you collectively decide it is wise to add additional members to the Committee and if you can recruit suitable potential members, I shall be delighted to consider your request very carefully; with the obvious exception of the Provost, the members of the committee are appointed by the UO Senate President. I respectfully call your attention to the Charge of the Senate Budget Committee contained in the minutes of the 13 May 1992 meeting of the Senate: the committee "will advise the President and the Senate on budgetary policy and long-term financial strategies, and will keep the University Senate informed about financial matters" and also "The President and members of the Administration will keep the committe informed of actions by the Governor, the Legislature, the State Board of Higher Education, the Chancellor's Office, and other agencies that affect the availability of resources and place constraints on the expenditure of General Funds." [Here the words President refer to the President of the University not the President of the Senate]. See the following web location for further details: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uosenate/chargebudgetcom.html. I would ask that the four of you consider carefully the request by InterInstitutional Faculty Senator and former Senate President Ann Tedards that the Senate Budget Committee examine the question of faculty salaries; I have already transmitted Ann's request to you and it is located on the web http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uosenate/dirsen990/excom29sep99.html. Let me note that the FAC is looking into the question as well. I have asked Wayne Westling to convene the committee; the committee chooses its own chair. The UO has a long tradition of shared governance. Thank you for serving on this important committee. Peter B Gilkey (UO Senate President 1999/2000)