coe-staff: Senate Notes

[Laura Lee McIntyre]

Thank you for your years of service on the senate. We all have appreciated your efforts on behalf of the COE!

Laura Lee

From: coe-staff-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu [mailto:coe-staff-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu] On Behalf Of Deborah Olson
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 3:33 PM
To: coe-staff at lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: coe-staff: Senate Notes

Hi Colleagues - I'm afraid I've been a slacker in getting senate notes out to you.  Blame it on an end-of-term tidal wave.  I have copied 4 sets of notes into one document that you can easily skim through.  I apologize in advance that the notes are not very detailed and undoubtedly contain mistakes. Much of the work of the last 4 meetings addressed policy repeals or revisions as part of the work of reviewing policies that have to be accepted by the Board of Trustees, but there have been some interesting highlights:

May 13 - Incoming President Schill addressed the body at the end of the meeting.

May 20 - Interesting example of why the Senate body should not try to word-smith motions once they've reached the floor.  The policy group on employment issues, which I co-chaired, had 2 policies kicked back to us bringing up the entire question of the role of these committees: to just "clean-up" policies (e.g. remove references to Chancellor), make them conform to existing policies and collective bargaining agreements, or rewrite them to our interests.  This issue was never really resolved and the policy work will continue next fall.  VP for Institutional Equity and Inclusion Alex-Assensoh gave an introduction to the policy work currently underway in her office that was well received.  Her power point presentation is in the minutes for this date.

May 27 - Two Senate awards recognized: Office of Administration Leadership went to Miriam Bolton (CAS) and the Wayne Westling Award to Carole Stabile (Journalism). Both gave interesting acceptance speeches that will eventually be in the meeting minutes.  This meeting saw the approval of the 3 new degrees from the COE Prevention Science program.

June 3 - Two more Senate awards: Classified Staff leadership to Johnny Earl (Campus Operations) and Shared Governance, Leadership and Trust to Michael Dreiling (Sociology).  Both gave inspiring acceptance remarks. Outgoing Senate President Robert Kyr gave an incredible summary of the last 4 years of the Senate's work and the struggle for shared governance. His remarks will be on the Senate website in the minutes for that meeting.  There was also the election of the only candidate running for Vice-President Elect: Bill Harbaugh (Economics).  And there was the passing of the  gavel to the in-coming Senate President.  I realize that there are some within the COE that question whether NTT faculty should represent the college in the Senate: meet your new Senate President, Randy Sullivan (Chemistry).

So ends my 2 year term serving you on the Senate. It has truly been an honor. You will be well served by your representatives on the Senate next year: Jerry Rosiek (Ed Studies), Laura Lee McIntyre SPECS), and Deanna Linville (CPHS).

Have a terrific summer - Deborah




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