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(Meeting was cancelled due to snow)
TO: Senators
FROM: Cindy Vitto, University Senate President
DATE: February 19, 2003
RE: February 18th Senate Meeting Although our February 18 meeting was cancelled due to snow, we had no pressing business (as far as I know) that cannot wait until our next regularly scheduled meeting on March 25, except for two items:
- Phil Lewis, Chair of the Curriculum Committee, must make announcements of new course proposals, and he will do that soon in electronic format. No vote is required on the proposals.
- Janet Moss, Chair of Committee on Committees, needs Senate approval on a few shifts in committee positions. We will send out that information electronically and ask for an electronic vote.
If anyone else has business you wish to bring to the attention of the Senate before the March 25 meeting, please let me know. The Senate Agenda that you received last week contained most of the information I intended to pass along in my President’s report. The only information I need to add relates to deferred faculty searches. Decisions were made in consultation with affected departments and Deans. At this point there are eleven deferred faculty searches, in the following departments:College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
- Mathematics (Camden)
- Economics
- Psychology
- Sociology
College of Education:
- Early Childhood/Special Education / Teacher Prep
- Foreign Languages / Teacher Prep
College of Communication:
- Composition/Rhetoric
- Communication Studies
- Journalism/Creative Writing
College of Fine and Performing Arts:
- Art / Photography
College of Engineering:
- Civil Engineering
(Note: This list may be reduced to ten deferred searches if Dean Thottam decides to return to faculty at Rowan. The list is also subject to further change.) Please remember that I am searching for a few volunteers. Let me know if you or someone in your department would be interested in the following:
- one or two volunteers from Liberal Arts and Sciences for a Learning Outcomes Assessment subcommittee (volunteers will become ex officio members of the committee and should be willing to commit themselves through the next academic year or longer)
- one or two volunteers to serve on a committee to select a food service vendor (with intense work from 3/12 through 3/28)
- two or more volunteers for an ad hoc committee to work with David Applebaum on developing a proposal for better scheduling and coordination of co-curricular programming
Finally, I have received word from the Progressive Student Alliance that they are sponsoring a program that may be of interest to many of us because David Rammler, from the South Jersey Legal Service, will discuss First Amendment Rights and student protest. (The program also includes a presentation by Bob Smith, from the Brandywine Peace Community, about Lockheed Martin and the weapons manufacturing industry.) The event takes place Thursday, February 20, at 6:30 in the Student Center, Room 144. Sorry for the short notice. Thank you. See you on March 25! |