ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING

AGENDA

TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2006

SEVEN HILLS CONFERENCE CENTER

NOB HILL ROOM

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 

CALL TO ORDER 4:00 p.m.

 

WELCOME TO NEW SENATORS.

 

AGENDA ITEM #1 – APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA FOR MAY 16, 2006

 

AGENDA ITEM #2 – ELECTION OF SENATE OFFICERS FOR 2006-2007

 

The Senate’s by laws (V, D, 1) specify the following procedure for the election of senate officers:

 

1.                  Executive Committee Elections

a)       The spring organizational meeting of the Senate shall be held as soon after completion of election of new members as practicable, but in no case later than the end of the instruction in the spring semester.  At that meeting, the identified members of the Senate for the next academic year shall elect their officers.  A Senate member on leave for the fall semester shall be deemed eligible to vote for Senate officers.  In the instance of a Senate member on leave for the entire academic year, the replacement shall be deemed eligible to vote.  The new Senate will assume its official duties on June 1.

b)       Offices shall be filled one at a time in order of chair, vice chair, secretary, first at-large member, second at-large member.

c)        Nominations shall be made by individual members of the Senate by secret ballot.

d)       Senate members shall have the opportunity of withdrawing their names from nominations after the nominations have been announced.

e)        Voting shall be by written ballots unless there is only one nominee.

f)        To be elected, a Senate member must receive a majority of the votes cast. (A written abstention shall not be considered a vote cast.)  In a run-off election, the candidates shall be those listed in rank order of votes received whose combined total of votes first exceeds a majority (i.e. if the top two have such a majority, they will be the candidates; if it takes the top three for such a majority, they are the candidates, etc.)

g)      For the purpose of this election, the chair shall appoint two retiring Senate members as an Elections Committee to handle the voting procedures.

 

A description of the duties of these officers may be found online, at http://www.sfsu.edu/~senate/constitution/bylaws.html

 

AGENDA ITEM #3 – RECOMMENDATION from the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE – RESOLUTION ON THE SUMMER SENATE – a consent item – 1st &  2nd readings

 

The by-laws (II, E, 3) of the Academic Senate include the following provisions for continuity during the summer:

 

3. A summer committee of the Academic Senate, composed of no fewer than six members of the Academic Senate, shall be available on an emergency basis during the months of June, July, and August for consultation, calling of special Academic Senate meetings, and handling of such duties as may be delegated to it by the Senate.

 

The Executive Committee therefore recommends the following resolution:

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the Academic Senate that the Academic Senate Executive Committee shall be designated as the summer committee of the Academic Senate specified in Section II, Sub-section E, Paragraph 3 of the by-laws of the Academic Senate, and that this summer committee shall be authorized to take action, consistent with the Constitution of the Faculty and the by-laws of the Academic Senate, with a quorum of six.

 

NOTA BENE:  Upon completion of Agenda Item 3, the first meeting of the 2006-2007 session of the Academic Senate will adjourn.  Members should immediately reassemble in the various corners of the room as committees, for the election of committee chairs.  A list of committee assignments is attached on GOLDENROD.

 

AGENDA ITEM #4 – ADJOURNMENT