Fourth Meeting
December 11, 1997
Gold Rooms B & C, Oakland Center
3:10 p.m.
Refreshments will be served
Agenda

Respectfully submitted by the Steering Committee

I. Approval of the minutes of the November 13, 1997 meeting.

II. Information items.

a. Committee reports
--Human Relations--Mr. Murphy
--Research Committee--Ms. Zenas

b. New charter schools update--Dr. Cronn

c. SBA Mission statement (attached)

III. Old Business

1. Motion from the Graduate Council (Mr. Goslin)

MOVED that the University Senate recommend to the President and the Board of Trustees the approval of a Ph.D. degree in Education with tracks in Counseling, Early Childhood Education and Educational Leadership.

Second reading: Debatable, amendable, and eligible for a final vote

Comment: A copy of the complete proposal may be viewed in the Provost's office. The recommendations of the Graduate Council, the Senate Planning Review Committee, the Senate Budget Review Committee and the framework of the program and the abstracts and revised budget pages from each of the three tracks have previously been distributed.

IV. New Business

1. Steering Committee election (Senate Elections Committee)

Kevin Andrews, currently a member of the Steering Committee, will be on sabbatical leave, winter term, 1998, thereby necessitating election of a senator to replace him for that term. Members continuing to serve are Buck Dillon (SBA), Jerry Grossman (College), Linda Hildebrand (Library), William Keane (SEHS), Eleanor Reynolds (AP). The only limitation on electability of senators to this Committee is that no more than two may be elected from any one organized faculty. Thus, given the current membership of the Steering Committee, any member of the Senate may be nominated. The Steering Committee normally meets twice a month (Tuesday afternoons from 1-3) to set the Senate agenda, refer business to Senate committees and receive reports from those bodies and advise the Vice President for Academic Affairs (its chair) on governance issues; it also meets occasionally during the spring and summer. If you wish to nominate someone, please establish in advance that the person is willing and able to serve. A list of current senators was distributed with the September 1997 agenda.

2. Procedural motion from the Steering Committee to staff a Senate standing committee. (Mr. Dillon)

MOVED that the person listed below be elected to the Senate standing committee for the term specified:

Senate Planning Review Committee
Jack Tsui (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences) Winter, 1998

Procedural motion: Debatable, amendable and eligible for final vote.

V. Good and welfare
        Private resolutions

(Note: Please advise your colleagues that a number of Senate standing committees are still lacking a full complement of members. The committees needing additional members are Academic Conduct (2 vacancies), Academic Standing and Honors (1 vacancy), Senate Planning Review Committee (needs a winter term 1998 replacement for A.Liboff), and the University Committee on Assessment lacks a representative from SECS.) Volunteers for any of these committees should contact a member of the Senate Steering Committee.)