Report by Senate President Gilkey 8 March 2000

  • Materials Distributed
  • Notice of motion has been received for 8 different motions.
    1. Affirmation of community standards. An outgrowth of the "pledge of respect" developed over the summer. It is on the agenda for the April meeting.
    2. Corporate Code of Conduct. Presumably Senator Grzybowski will have more to say about that at the end of this meeting. It is expected to come up in April.
    3. Motion from the DSA to update the legislation slightly for the distinguished service award. It is on the agenda for the April meeting. On a slightly different matter, additional nominees for the DSA are actively solicited - send nominations to Dave Hubin through 15 March 2000.
    4. Three motions from the SBC - Presumably Wayne Westling will discuss these in more detail during his "interim report". These will come up at the Special meeting of the UO Senate scheduled for 29 March (first Wednesday of the quarter). This special meeting has been called because the Deans and Department heads need to get to work on allocating the raises for next November and the April meeting is too late.
    5. Two motions from the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on committee structures
  • Some informational items
    1. Report from the Oregon State Senate "towards a top tier status"
    2. Letter from Richard Sundt regarding new Basketball Facility
    3. Letter from Aaron Weck regarding the Student Programs Finance Committee
    4. Minutes of the IAC
    5. Last year we passed the Post Tenure Review policy. It states `` Two levels of regular, developmental review are required of all tenured faculty who are not evaluated through the established Administrative Review process: '' All tenured faculty go through regular review - for those whose primary responsibilities are administrative it is Administrative Review. This year Provost Moseley is undergoing review. See letter by Jack Rice on the matter soliciting input - letters can be sent to Librarian George Shipman until 15 March 2000.
    6. Letter from S. Cohen commenting on some of the statistical information the OAA provided and I distributed last week - see also remarks by Senator McLaughlan on the same subject.
    7. Letter from the IFS senate requesting volunteers to serve on a "scholars network"
  • Some information about program changes
  • Information on the library serials cancellation project.
  • The report of the Oregon Survey Research Laboratory. A telephone survey was conducted of instructional faculty immediately after the town hall meeting. It is being distributed to enable Senators to look it over in advance of the 29 March 2000 meeting as there are some real tradeoffs to be discussed. The information on the written survey is being organized now and will be distributed when available.

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