CLAS Assembly Minutes
January 9, 2007
- CLAS Assembly meeting was called to order at 12:57pm by John H.
Moore, CLAS President Pro Tempore. He welcomed the new Interim
Dean, Professor Joe Glover.
- Presentation of Proposed Constitutional
Amendments: Professor Jed Keesling. The issues discussed can
be found in the Report of the faculty
senate-presidential task force on the implementation of shared
governance structure
(http://www.senate.ufl.edu/archives/other/finalreport.pdf).
- Discussion of the proposed changes
- Allan Burns (Associate Dean)
remarked that the Tenure & Promotion
Committee should be directly accountable to the Dean, due to
the confidential nature of the information it handles.
- Jed
Keesling: The organizational chart is not right now subject to
approval.
- David Pharies (RLL) raised the issue regarding resource
allocation decisions and possible overlaps in the competencies
of committees.
- Jed Keesling: Different committees are responsible
for different types allocation decisions, hence overlaps unlikely.
- Christine
Sapienza (Communication Sciences and Disorders) argued that a
larger group of faculty was needed in order to decide on important
matters and proposed a motion to use voting by paper ballots;
the motion for this change is not necessary.
Krishnaswami Alladi (Mathematics) supported Prof. Sapienza’s
point.
- Scott Nygren (English) emphasized that all the parts of
the College must be fairly represented on the relevant committees.
- Jed Keesling: The members of committees rotate, and a given
committee never has more than two members from one and the same
department.
- Alan Dorsey (Physics): Having (a) student(s) representative
on the finance committee is a good idea, having a staff member
would make sense, as well.
- Jed Keesling: The committee members
can consult members of the staff or invite them to their meetings.
- John Moore suggested that proposals for changes in the constitution
should be submitted to him.
- There was also an agreement that there
should be a student representative on the College Faculty Council,
each student serving for one year.David Pharies proposed a motion
to amend the CLAS constitution: “There
shall be two student members: one undergraduate chosen by
the undergraduate majors of the College and one graduate student
chosen by the graduate students studying in the College. The student
members shall serve one year.”
The motion was seconded by Jed Keesling.
- Vote on the motion: 2/3 of
the present.
The motion passed.
- Report of the Faculty Finance Committee by Professor Alan Dorsey
(Physics). The .ppt presentation is available upon request.
- Kirk
Ludwig (Philosophy): Will the Faculty Finance Committee consult
with the departments before April? The FFC should consider
the cost to UF’s reputation in making their proposals and
decisions. What
are the constraints on the functioning of the FFC?
- Alan Dorsey’s
answer: It is an advisory committe
- Carol Murphy (Romance Languages and Literatures) expressed a
concern about University’s expectation.
- Scott Nygren (English) warned of dangers of drawing wrong comparisons.
- Report
of the Committee on the History and Causes of the College Financial
Situation: Professor Pradeep Kumar (Physics)
- Nine Members were Elected:
- *Behavioral & Social Sciences:
Amie Kreppel, Political Science
Anthony Oliver-Smith, Anthropology
Karen Parker, Criminology
- *Humanities:
John Biro, Philosophy
Mitchell Hart, History
John Leavey, English
- *Natural & Mathematical Sciences:
David Evans, Zoology
Pradeep Kumar, Physics
Neil White, Mathematics
- There were no motions and announcements
from the floor. John Moore drew attention to a NYT article
entitled “At Universities, Plum Post at Top Is Now Shaky” (January
9, 2007).
- Remarks by Interim Dean Joe Glover.
The most pressing issue this semester is the budget, across-the-board
solutions will not work. As far as the Five Year Plan is
concerned, there is a certain leeway for modifying it. The President
is interested in the appropriate financial outcome, and CLAS can
choose how to reach it. Any decisions made in the Dean’s
Office are Joe Glover’s
decisions. However, the Provost can overrule them and she
is expected to publicly acknowledge such actions. The Dean’s
task is to prepare the CLAS for the future, the current situation
can be characterized as a plateau state. The Faculty should formulate
their expectations on the new Dean candidates and on the future
of the CLAS and communicate them through the College Assembly. The
process should start at the level of individual departments, then
proceed to the Division level at which interdisciplinary discussion
could be conducted. Synthesizing the results from these levels,
the CLAS should present a ‘vision to proud of’ and
that could be presented to Tigert Hall. The CLAS is in competition
for resources with every other College on campus. The CLAS
is also in the public phase of the capital campaign and Joe Glover
thanked the departmental chairs for their help in preparing the
materials for it.
- The CLAS Assembly Meeting was adjourned by Professor
Moore at 2:10pm.
Archive of Minutes
- March 25, 2010
- January 22, 2010
- April 26, 2007
- January 9, 2007
- October 4, 2006
- May 1, 2006
- February 27, 2006
- November 16, 2005
- September 29, 2005
- March 28, 2005
- November 15, 2004
- September 14, 2004
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