Oakland University Senate

November 7, 1968

Agenda

To:  Members of the University Senate

From: Donald D. O'Dowd, for the Steering Committee

Re: Agenda for the Meeting of November 7, 1968

The next meeting of the University Senate will be held on Thursday, November 7, at 3:30 p.m., in Room 310 of the Kresge Library.

A. New Business

1. Recommendation from the Steering Committee. (Mr. O'Dowd)

The Steering Committee recommends that the University Senate approve the Constitution of the School of Engineering. The Steering Committee does not believe that this document, accepted in its entirety by the organized faculty of the School of Engineering, should be amended on the floor of the Senate. In the light of these considerations the following motion is presented for Senate approval:

a. The Constitution of the organized faculty of the School of Engineering will be voted upon in its entirety by the Senate without amendment from the floor.  This motion appears to the committee to be procedural.

b. The Constitution of the School of Engineering is accepted by the University Senate.

2. Additional Recommendations from the Steering Committee. (Mr. O'Dowd)

The Steering Committee offers a slate of nominees to fill vacancies on the committees of the Senate.

a. The Senate appoints the following nominees to fill vacancies in committees of the Senate:

(1) Academic Standing and Honors Committee:  ___________for Mars, who has resigned from the committee, and Velinsky, deceased.

(2) Athletics Committee: Miss Patricia Smith and Mr. Michael Nolph, as recommended by the ad hoc Student Nominations Committee. (Cynthia Attwood, chairman)

(3) Publications Committee; Miss Gwen Heard and Miss Nancy Bryant, as recommended by the ad hoc Student Nominations Committee. 

(4) Elections Committee: P. Johnson (Education), for Langer, who has left the university.

3. Report of Steering Committee Activities (Mr. O'Dowd)

a. The School of Engineering, operating as a committee of the whole, has elected Howard R. Witt as University Senator from the School of Engineering. Mr. Witt replaces Mr. Shank, who has resigned.

b. The charges to the constitutional and permanent committees of the University Senate have been approved by the Steering Committee. A copy of the charges is attached.

c. A list of the completed membership of the University Senate has been approved by the Steering Committee. A copy of that list is attached.

d. The Steering Committee has informed the Elections Committee of the University Senate of two imminent vacancies in the Tenure and Appointment Policy Committee, and requested that it establish and implement the needed machinery to elect new members (i.e., notify the School of Education of the expiration of Mr. Bantel's one-year term and thus the need to elect a replacement, and itself supervise a general election to choose an at-large member to replace Mr. Cherno, whose one-year term also expires this year).

The tenured faculty members elected by each organized faculty in February and March of 1968 were: Professor Bantel, School of Education, one-year term; Professor Hammerle, School of Engineering, two-year term; Professor Hoopes, College of Arts & Sciences, three-year term. The members-at-large elected by the organized faculties in 1968 were: Professor Cherno, History and New College, one-year term; Professor Harding, Biology, two-year term; Professor Johnson, Mathematics, three-year term. In each case the term of office was chosen by lot following the election. All subsequent elections, however, are for three-year terms.

e. The members of the Elections Committee are: Kleckner (chairman), G. P. Johnson, Linsalata, and P. Johnson (a new member of the committee as proposed in part 2. a (4) above). This committee was appointed in 1967 to serve for  the life of this session of the Senate (i.e., until the  fall of 1969).

f. The Steering Committee has proposed to the Elections Committee that the elected members of the Tenure and Appointment Policy Committee be selected during the months of November or December of each year in accordance with procedures adopted by the Elections Committee of the University Senate. The terms of office of elected members should begin on January 1 of the new year and terminate on December 31 of the year the term of office expires. These regulations should apply to the present elected members of the Tenure Committee and all subsequently elected members.

g. The Commission on Student Life, in its meeting of October 9, 1968, voted to accept the invitation of the Steering Committee to become an ad hoc committee of the University Senate for a period of one year. The Commission will also maintain its original status and responsibilities as noted in the letter of Chancellor Varner to the faculty and staff on March 6, 1967. This reformulation of the charge to the Commission has been approved by Chancellor Varner.

The Steering Committee adopted the following resolution, consistent with the present membership and structure of the Commission on Student Life:

(1) An ad hoc committee of the Senate called the Commission on Student Life is hereby established. The Commission is empowered to examine and investigate all aspects of student life on the university campus and to make recommendations to the Senate on policy governing the life of college students. The Commission should provide advice to the Dean of Students and his staff in the normal pursuit of their activities in administering the student life program of the university.

The membership of the Commission will consist of six students elected at-large by the student body; five faculty members; one administrative-professional staff member; and the Dean of Students,ex officio and non-voting.

The appointed members of the Commission for the academic year 1968-69 are Messrs. Sheldon Appleton, Brieger, Burdick, Coffman, Hammerle, and James Appleton. The Steering Committee appoints Miss Marlene Ellis, an elected student member of the Commission, as chairman of the ad hoc committee.

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