coe-staff: FW: [UO Senate 2014/15] [Senate:] An Urgent Matter re: University Policy-Making

[Deborah Olson]

Hello again - here is our next crisis and it really is pretty bad.  I am forwarding Senate President Kyr's message concerning the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday.  They will entertain a policy to replace existing policies concerning the Senate role in, what else? Policy development.  The Senate is being replaced by a Policy Advisory Council selected by the president, 

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Subject: [UO Senate 2014/15] [Senate:] An Urgent Matter re: University Policy-Making

To: University Senate

 From: Robert Kyr, President

RE: Board of Trustees Motion;
Change in University Policy-Making Procedure

I am writing to inform the Senate about an important motion that will be presented to the Board of Trustees at their meeting this week. On Friday, December 12, 2014, the board will discuss and vote upon the "Adoption of a Policy on the Development and Revision of University Policies." This motion will significantly change our University Constitution and redefine the role of the Senate in shared governance as it pertains to the making of university policy.

You may access the text for the motion, which was first posted on Friday, December 5, 2014, by following this link:

http://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees1.wc-sites.uoregon.edu/files/field/image/Full%20BOT%20Notice%20and%20Materials%20120414%20-%20r.pdf

The text of the motion is on page 7 of the document and Exhibit A "shall supersede all related and existing University authorities, policies, and procedures, to the extent they are inconsistent with the Policy on University Policies or would otherwise materially alter it, subject to the Board’s retention of authority to adopt, revise, or repeal any University policy by independent Board action."

The University Constitution was unanimously ratified by the Statutory Faculty at the Faculty Assembly that was called on December 7, 2011. The section of the Constitution related to policy-making is on pages 9-11, which may be accessed through the following link:

http://senate.uoregon.edu/sites/senate.uoregon.edu/files/Constitution%20of%20the%20UODec_15_2011.pdf

After convening the Senate Executive Committee at 5:00 pm on Monday, December 8 (place TBA), I will be in touch with you as soon as I have further news to report. In the meantime, I strongly urge you to become familiar with the documents that I have cited above.








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