Minutes for CLAS Task Force on Shared Governance
Griffin-Floyd 201
Wednesday, Nov 1, 2006
Attendance
Present. Jed Keesling, John Leavey, Ron Randles, John Moore, David Hackett, Jane Brockman, Barbara Zsembik.
Minutes
- The meeting was called to order by Jed Keesling at 10:45 am. There was discussion of items in the Constitution that need immediate revision. John Leavey said that the section of the CLAS Constitution dealing with the Promotion and Tenure Committee needs attention. It is not in compliance with the principles of shared governance. This has led to ad hoc elections and confusion. After much discussion it was agreed that this issue needed to be dealt with before the next Promotion and Tenure Committee would be elected and meet.
- The rest of the meeting focused on the details of the formation of the Executive Committee and the Finance Committee for the College. There was discussion about the powers vested in the Executive Committee. Ron Randles suggested that this committee should have strong powers and that the Constitutional Amendment should list these according to which ones were advisory, joint, and sole powers belonging to this committee. After long discussion, the wording of the charge of this committee was changed. The revised version is appended.
- There was a similar discussion about the College Finance Committee. New wording was crafted. It was decided that the Finance Committee would be required to report to the Assembly each semester of the academic year.
- The wording of the document was agreed upon by all present. The final revision is appended. It will now go to the CLAS Constitution Revision Committee. It will send the Constitutional Amendments to the Steering Committee of the College to be proposed to the College Assembly.
- Jed asked if TFSG would like to continue meeting or to disband after the Executive Committee and the Finance Committee have been formed. The committee decided that it should continue to meet and monitor the progress of shared governance in the College. In future meetings, Jed Keesling will bring a more extensive revision of the CLAS Constitution for the committee to consider. It will be modeled after the constitution adopted by the College of Design, Construction, and Planning. The members can review this at the following website: http://www.dcp.ufl.edu/documents/dcpconst.pdf
- Jed Keesling reported that he and John Moore will be meeting with Neil Sullivan to report on progress being made toward revising the CLAS Constitution to conform to the requirements of shared governance. That meeting will take place at 11:00 am Wed, Nov 8. In light of that, the next meeting of the CLAS TFSG will be at 11:45-12:35, Wed, Nov 8. This will be immediately after the meeting with the Dean. John and Jed will report on the meeting to the TFSG at the first part of the meeting.
- At the next meeting, Jed will also propose a memorandum of implementation for the College's Executive and Finance Committees. This would be a procedure for the first year until the committee membership is in regular rotation.
- The meeting was dismissed at 12:10 pm.
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