Minutes for CLAS Task Force on Shared Governance
Griffin-Floyd 201
Wednesday, Nov 8, 2006
Attendance
Present. Jed Keesling, John Leavey, Ron Randles, John Moore, David Hackett, Barbara Zsembik, Steve Perz, Carol Murphy, Jodi Lane, and Bret Seferian.
Absent. Rick Yost, Jane Brockman.
Minutes
- The meeting was called to order by Jed Keesling at 11:45 am. John Moore and Jed Keesling reported on their meeting with Neil Sullivan and brought some suggestions from him for the amendments being proposed for the CLAS Constitution.
- Neil Sullivan suggested three changes. (1)
The President of the College should be called the Presdent of the College
Assembly or President of the College Faculty. He preferred the former.
(2) There should be student representation on the Finance Committee.
And, (3) he was concerned about the wording "The College Executive
Committee shall approve all special committees formed by the Dean...." in
the first paragraph under the College Executive Committee. He suggested
the wording, "The
College Executive Committee shall be consulted and give advice on all
special special committees formed by the Dean...."
- There was discussion of each of these points. It was decided that the "President of the College" should be designed "President of the College Faculty" in the proposed amendments. Jed and the Constitution Revision Committee will review the document to make the other changes necessary for consistency of language.
- In the discussion of (3), there was strong sentiment to keep the original wording of the document. In a vote whether to keep the original wording or make the suggested change, the vote was unanimous to keep the original wording.
- Bret Seferian, a graduate student representative on the committee, spoke in favor of student representation on the Finance Committee. After discussion, it was decided to add one student member to the Finance Committee. The student member could be either an undergraduate or a graduate student. The term of the student member would be one year. There would be no restrictions on the vote of the student member as is the case for the Executive Committee student members.
- Jed reported that the Constitution Revision Committee would meet Thurs, 11/9/06, to review the wording of the proposed amendments. John Moore said that we could probably have an Assembly meeting after the Thanksgiving break to have the amendments approved by the Assembly.
- Jed then handed out a memorandum of implementation for the first years of the Executive Committee and the Finance Committee. This provided an outline for the membership of these committees until regular rotation is established. The committee seemed to think that this was adequate without further elaboration.
- Jed suggested that the Executive Committee would take responsibility for implementation of shared governance. Jed said that he hoped that the Executive Committee take the CLAS TFSG under its wing to continue its work on the CLAS Constitution and with implementation of other aspects of shared governance. It would help the Executive Committee during its period of adjustment to have this help.
- The meeting was adjourned at 12:35 pm.
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