20052006 Faculty Senate

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2005-2006 Faculty Senate First Meeting May 5,
2005 Achille Messac Faculty Senate
President Warmest Welcome! What we do over
the next 12 months will have a great Impact on
Rensselaers future on ours, and on that on
many!
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• Todays Agenda
• (Not in that order, and time permitting)
• Self Introduction of members
• Presidents Personal Remarks
• Formulation of OUR vision
• Where do we go from here?
• This past year
• Getting Ready for Next Year

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• Getting Started
• Self Introduction
• Getting to know each other
• Building a Senate Community
• Building a Rensselaer Community
• Presidents Personal Remarks
• Formulation of OUR vision
• Top-Down
• Bottom-Up gtgt
• Getting RESULTS
• with STABILITY As a Community!

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• Getting Started (Cont.)
• This past year What worked?
• What did not?
• Getting Ready for Next Year Staying the course
  where it worked
• Changing course for new phase
• Summer readiness
• Less time on stalemate.
• More time on SOLUTIONS!!

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Complete Senate Membership Move to approve
at-large member for Promotion and Tenure
Pulickel Ajayan FSEC Move to Approve Chair of
Promotion and Tenure Committee Sunderesh in
Fall, Larry Kagan in spring FSEC Move to
Approve chair of Curriculum Committee Amir
Hirsa Move to Approve Ken Warriner as
representative from the School of Architecture on
the Curriculum Committee FSEC Move to appoint
Chair of Planning and Resources Committee Dan
BergMove to elect Bob Parsons to the position
of Secretary of the Senate (Secret Ballot) Need
HSS member for Curriculum Committee for Fall
semester June Deery on sabbatical. SOMEONE
ELECTED
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4-6-2005 Faculty Senate Meeting This meeting was
closed to administrative faculty. No minutes of
the discussions were taken. Following Motions
were passed Motion 1 Move that the Faculty
Senate obtain independent legal
representation. Motion 2 Move that Harvey
Randall, Esq. be invited to represent the Faculty
Senate and its committees, both ad hoc and
standing.
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• Summer Readiness (Cont.)
• Legal Representation Move that legal
  representation be terminated to allow for the
  possibility of a cooperative paradigm to emerge
  between faculty and administration.
• Governance Ad-hoc committee Move that Governance
  Committee be ended, and that new executive
  committee be charged with offering to the senate
  its new solution approach.
• RESULTS with STABILITY
• Giving new senate the means to succeed.

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• Where did the system fail?
• How do we fix it?
• Communication Mechanisms Faculty Senate
• Faculty senate Executive CommitteeCandidate now
  ones below
• Faculty Representation in Board of Trustees
  
• Joint Task Force Senate-Trustees- Cabinet
• Setting a new tone Both, faculty and
  administration leaderships Faculty feels
  ignored. This needs to change.
• Administration feels it is doing the right things
  already. This needs to change.
• Tone of New Senate Constructive
  Assertiveness