2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
OPEN FLOOR PERIOD - 2:00 - 2:10 p.m.
The Open Floor Period provides an informal opportunity for faculty members to raise questions or make comments directed to Senate officers or to university administrators. Please arrive promptly at 2:00 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER 2:10 p.m.
There will be no Senate meeting on February 25. Instead, there will be an all-university faculty meeting to discuss the budget situation for 2003-04. The meeting will be in McKenna Theater, 2:30-4 p.m. All senators should attend, and urge your colleagues to attend as well. The meeting will be open to all members of the University community.
During the spring semester, the Executive Committee expects to place on the agenda briefings on the University's partnership with Cañada College to offer our upper-division courses on the Cañada campus and the prospect for similar partnerships elsewhere; and on the University's recent land acquisitions adjacent to the campus and at Tiburon. The Executive Committee also plans to place on the agenda a discussion of the current University calendar, including Thanksgiving break, spring break, starting dates for Fall and Spring, and the summer program.
Updated committee membership and senate roster attached [IVORY & LAVENDER]
CHAIR'S REPORT
AGENDA ITEM #2-APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR December 3, 2002
Minutes on GREEN.
AGENDA ITEM #3 - ELECTION OF THREE FACULTY MEMBERS TO THE ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.
At its meeting of December 3, 2002, the Academic Senate approved a new policy on enrollment management. It is now necessary to elect three members to this committee who will serve three-year, overlapping terms. We shall first elect someone for the three-year term, then for the two-year term, and finally for the one-year term. José Cuellar, Raza Studies, Karen Johnson-Brennan, Nursing, and Darlene Yee, Gerontology have agreed to be nominated. Additional nominations will be accepted from the floor. On GOLDENROD.
AGENDA ITEM # 4-APPROVAL OF ANNUAL SENATE REAPPORTIONMENT, 1st AND 2nd READINGS.
The Constitution requires Executive Committee to recommend and the Senate to approve the apportionment of Senate seats each year. The recommendation and supporting material will be distributed when we meet.
AGENDA ITEM # 5-RECOMMENDATION FROM THE ACADEMIC POLICIES COMMITTEE: REVISIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY POLICY ON WRITTEN ENGLISH PROFICIENCY, 1ST READING.
APC unanimously recommends the attached proposal for changes the charge of the University Committee on Written English Proficiency (CWEP) and revisions in the CWEP membership.
AGENDA ITEM # 6-RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CURRICULUM REVIEW AND APPROVAL COMMITTEE: REVISION OF THE B.S. DEGREE MAJOR PROGRAM IN ACCOUNTING, 1ST AND 2ND READINGS, CONSENT.
CRAC unanimously recommends approval of the attached revision of the B.S. degree major program in Accounting. The attachment is on SALMON. This is a consent item.
AGENDA ITEM # 7-RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CURRICULUM REVIEW AND APPROVAL COMMITTEE: CERTIFICATE IN ACCOUNTING, 1ST AND 2ND READINGS, CONSENT.
CRAC unanimously recommends approval of the attached proposal for a certificate in Accounting. The attachment is on TAN. This is a consent item.
AGENDA ITEM #8-RECOMMENDATION FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: RECODIFICATION AND REVISION OF SENATE BYLAWS, 1ST READING.
Until now, the Senate's bylaws have been revised mostly by adding new items. Other senate procedures, notably those on elections and standing committees, have developed outside the bylaws. The attachment (on COLOR) represents an attempt to reorganize and clarify the existing bylaws, to bring elections procedures and committee structure into the bylaws, and to make a few substantive revisions. Revisions are underlined. The most significant revisions are:
- in II-C-8 (p. 3), having to do with the minimum number of speakers on a motion,
- in II-D-1-a (p. 3), adding the statewide senators to the executive committee,
- in II-D-1-d (p. 4), specifying the dates when terms of office begin, and
- in II-E-1-b and c (p 4), specifying the role of the secretary of the senate regarding the committee on committees.
The current versions of the bylaws, committee structure, and election procedures are on the senate's website: www.sfsu.edu/~senate.
This recommendation will be treated as an amendment to the bylaws, requiring a two-thirds vote to approve. On first reading, senators are encouraged to ask questions about the changes, comment on them, or suggest changes to the executive committee. Written suggestions are especially welcome. At the time of the 2nd reading, on March 11, amendments to the proposed bylaws will be in order before moving to a vote on 2nd reading. Attachment on WHITE.
AGENDA ITEM #9-DISCUSSION: CSU ACADEMIC SENATE RESOLUTION ON STUDENT FEES.
At its January meeting, the Academic Senate CSU heard a first reading of a resolution on student fees (attached on BUFF). It will come before the ASCSU for 2nd reading in March. The executive committee asks that you come prepared to discuss this resolution, as advice to the state senators.
AGENDA ITEM #10-DISCUSSION: CSU ACADEMIC SENATE RESOLUTION ON PRIVACY OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS.
At its January meeting, the Academic Senate CSU heard a first reading of a resolution on privacy of electronic communications (attached on CANARY). It will come for 2nd reading in March. The executive committee asks that you come prepared to discuss this resolution, as advice to the state senators. We have also invited the Academic Freedom Committee to attend and take part, including Chris Mays, chair of that committee, who will also tell us how the library is complying with the US Patriot Act. We have also invited Jonathan Rood, Associate Vice President for Information Technology. Senator Bartscher will be available to discuss legal issues.
http://www.calstate.edu/acadsen/actions/1994-95/2263.shtml
http://www.aaup.org/statements/spchstate/statelec.htm
AGENDA ITEM #11-ADJOURNMENT