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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
January 17, 1973

Pursuant to the January 15 charge by the Senate, the Executive Committee met on January 17 to consider its immediate role on behalf of the Senate relative to the anticipated recommendations to be made by President Boling of successors to Vice President Roberts. A letter of concern was written to President Boling, and sent via Chancellor Dykes, in which a request was made for a meeting between him and representatives of the Committee. President Boling met with the officers of the Senate and Chancellor Dykes on January 19; the meeting was lengthy and cordial, with differences of opinion frankly discussed.




EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
January 23, 1973

The Executive Committee met on January 23. The officers reported on their meeting with President Boling. A subcommittee was appointed to draw up a proposed statement for presentation to the Senate relative to the role of the faculty in consulting on appointments to high administrative positions; members are Luther Keller, chairperson, Lida Barrett, Jack Jones, and Art Williams. Another subcommittee was appointed to consider the current UTK budget proposal in terms of the effect of allocations on academic programs; members are Russell French, John Moore, Pietro Pasqua, and Mac Simpson.




EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
February 6 and 13, 1973

The Executive Committee met on February 6 and 13 to consider the budget message that Chancellor Dykes presented to a meeting of the Deans, Directors, and Department Heads on January 31; Mr. French reported for his subcommittee at both meetings.




EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
February 20, 1973

The Executive Committee met on February 20 with Chancellor Dykes, Vice Chancellor Ebersole, vice Chancellor Herndon, and Director Whitehead. Possible allocations of the budget for 1973-74 were discussed, including the categories of possible new faculty positions, support for graduate teaching assistants, faculty salaries, and funds for student aid. Plans were made for further discussions, both over the short term, as the budget is developed this current year, and over the long term, as the faculty works to become more familiar with the budget process at every stage.

Some recent instances in which the chairperson represented the Senate:
January 30: At request of Vice Chancellor Herndon, appointed two faculty members to an ad hoc committee of the administration and faculty to hear a case involving the termination of a faculty member.
January 31: Attended Chancellor Dykes budget presentation to Deans, Directors and Department Heads.
February 1: Met with chairpersons of Senate committees to plan immediate activities.
February 1: Attended parts of a hearing for Commissioner of Finance Ted Welch sponsored by the Knox County legislative delegation.
February 5: Met with Chancellor Dykes and other Senate officers to discuss proposed plans for the University Council.
February 8: Met with the subcommittee of the Board of Trustees that is studying the policy on alcoholic beverages in student housing.
February 13: Met with the Educational Facilities Committee in first organizational meeting. Mr. A. J. Edmondson was elected chairperson by this committee.


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
April 17, 1973

The Executive Committee met on April 17 to consider the procedures proposed by President Boling for the establishing of a committee to advise him in selecting nominees for the position of Chancellor. The meeting began with a report by the officers of their recent conversations with the President (see appropriate Items under 3, below). Following this report, President Boling and Mr. Charles Smith, his Executive Assistant, joined the group and described In detail the proposed procedures. (These procedures were subsequently published in the DAILY BEACON of April 18.) After the departure of President Boling and Mr. Smith the committee discussed the proposed procedures, taking Into consideration the adoption of the Senate on April 9 of its proposals relative to the filling of high administrative positions. At the conclusion of the discussion the following statement was adopted unanimously:
The Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate endorses the procedures outlined by President Boling for the selection of a new chancellor. It is most appropriate that an advisory committee appointed to aid In the selection of the chief executive of this campus include the elected officers of campus-wide organizations. Within the framework of the broad charge to the advisory committee, the representatives of the Faculty Senate will work to incorporate to the greatest degree the substance of the procedures recently recommended by the Senate for the filling Of high administrative positions. After the advisory committee Is organized, the Executive Committee will appoint a coordinating faculty group to help its representatives on the advisory committee review and clarify the role of the chancellor, collect and transmit faculty nominations for chancellor, and arrange for the review by a faculty group of final candidates for the position.


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
April 24, 1973

The Executive Committee met on April 24 to consider, first, the items referred to it on March 12 by the Senate in response to the report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Proposed New Faculty Handbook and, second, current items.
a. Referred to Educational Policies Committee for consideration:
1) Rates of summer salaries versus nine-month salaries.

2) Development of new title of "faculty associate."

3) Extent to which the Faculty Handbook Is applicable to faculty in the Institute of Agriculture.

4) Status of part-time employees relative to perquisites and fringe benefits.
b. Referred to Faculty Affairs Committee for consideration:
1) The travel policy with respect to numbers of meetings attended annually (see statements in existing handbook, page 28, and proposed handbook, page 67).

2) Wording of proposed revision (dated 3-9-73) of page 44 of proposed handbook; specifically item 4 as regards rigor of the evidential standard applicable, and item 7 as regards hearsay evidence.
c. Referred to the Transition Committee consideration of apparent inconsistencies between the wording. of the Resolution establishing the Faculty Senate adopted by the Board of Trustees and the By Laws of the Board.

d. Considered and deferred recommending a grievance procedure until the Chairperson can explore some possible procedures with resource persons.

e. Decided to appoint an ad-hoc committee to consider the framing of a position on a sabbatical program.

f. Decided to appoint an ad-hoc committee to study Campus-Systems issues and to report on these issues for the purpose of advising the three Senate representatives on the advisory committee to select nominees for the position of chancellor. (The advisor) committee, which is to be chaired by Dean John Prados, is to have its initial organizational meeting on May 2, but in his public charge to the committee, President Boling asked that, first, Campus-Systems issues be reviewed and clarified and, second, that individual candidates be screened and nominees be identified.)

Some recent instances In which the officers represented the Senate.
April 11: Chairperson met with President Boling and Mr. Charles Smith to discuss, in hypothetical terms, procedures that might be followed in the event Chancellor Dykes resigned.
April 12: Chairperson formally transmitted the Senate actions of April 9, relative to the filling of administrative posts, to the Chancellor's office with the request that a copy be forwarded to the President's office.
April 16: President Boling and Mr. Smith mot with the three officers of the Senate to discuss procedures for nominating candidates for the chancellorship.
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April 16:		 Chairperson talked with Vice Chancellor Aldmon and Dean Adkisson relative to the procedures being followed in the search for a new Dean of Admissions.
April 23: At the invitation of Mr. Karl Schledwitz, the Chairperson appeared at a meeting of students called by Mr. Schledwitz to discuss the procedures described by President Boling in the DAILY BEACON of April 18. The Chairperson reviewed the action of the Executive Committee and answered questions from the floor.

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