Oakland University Senate

Second Meeting
Thursday,  October 18, 1979
3:15 p.m.
128-130 Oakland Center

AGENDA

Respectfully submitted by George T. Matthews for the Steering.

A. Old Business:
None.

B. New Business:

Resolution from the Steering Committee (Mr. Tower).

WHEREAS Mr. Donald D. O'Dowd has served Oakland University since 1960 as Associate Professor and Professor of Psychology and as Assistant to the Dean for Social Sciences, Dean of the University, Provost, Dean of Graduate Studies, Chancellor and President; and

WHEREAS Mr. O'Dowd has resigned effective January I, 1980, to assume an important academic position elsewhere: therefore be it

RESOLVED that his colleagues in the Oakland University Senate take this means to thank Mr. O'Dowd for nineteen years of devoted and distinguished service as a member of the faculty and as an administrator of the University and as a member and officer of the Oakland University Senate for that entire span of time.

Procedural Motion:  Debatable, amendable and eligible for final vote at this meeting.

2. Motion from the Steering Committee (Mr. Tower).

MOVED that the Senate confirm the nomination of Mr. John Cameron to the Chair of the Campus Development and Environment Committee for a two-year term.

Procedural  Motion: Debatable, amendable and eligible for final vote at this meeting.

3. Report from the Faculty Council for Community and Human Development (Ms. Scherer).

    Not a Motion:  No action required.

4. Report of Steering Committee Activities: Presidential Search and Selection Procedures (Mr. Matthews).

    Not a Motion:  No action required.

�Comment: Attached to this agenda is a copy of the September 19, 1979, Board of Trustees' actions concerning procedures and guidelines to be followed in the search for and selection of a President of Oakland University. In accordance with the Board's invitation (see paragraph d of Resolution Appointing Board of Trustees as Presidential Selection Committee) and consistently with the spirit and almost so with the letter of the Senate's September 13,1979, Resolution, the Steering Committee has taken the following actions:

a. Mesdames Nadia Boulos and Elizabeth Titus and Messrs. Ronald Cramer, Karl Gregory, William Hammerle, and David Shantz have been appointed to the Faculty Advisory Committee, which has elected Mr. Shantz to serve as permanent chair.

b. Mesdames Wilma Garcia, Gertrude White and J. Lynne Williams and Messrs. Edward Heubel, Howard Splete and Paul Tomboulian have been appointed to an ad hoc Support Committee which the Steering  Committee has created to assist the Faculty Advisory Committee in its labors.

5. Report of the Faculty Advisory Committee to the Presidential Selection Committee (Mr. Shantz).

    Not a Motion: No action required.

Comment:  Paragraph 3 of the Guidelines for Advisory Committees to Presidential Selection Committee specifies that "each committee is requested to prepare a statement of recommended future needs of the University and submit such statement by November 1, 1979." The Faculty Advisory Committee wishes to discuss the substance of this request with the Senate.

C.  Good and Welfare: Private resolutions.

    1.  The Steering Committee has the Tower Resolution of September 13, 1979, under its own advisement.

D.  Informational items: None