DRAFT Agenda for March 19 Senate Executive Committee Meeting CALL TO ORDER APPROVAL OF MINUTES - February 19, 2007 Executive Committee Meeting (Draft attached) REPORTS Louis Gross, Faculty Senate President Board of Trustees Academic Affairs and Student Life meeting report Commission reports (Women, Blacks, LGBT) Discussions of issues with Provost Status of search for Senate Administrative Support Assistant David Patterson, Faculty Senate President-Elect Report on Senate elections process Neal Schrick, Budget and Planning Committee - Campus Budget hearings Robert Holub, Provost OLD BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS Discussion of possible change to Faculty Handbook regarding the number of ombudspersons (text below and attached as .doc file) Discussion of Faculty-Staff Benefits Committee resolution on proposed study for implementation of a wellness program (attached as a pdf file). Attachments: Minutes from February 19, 2007 Executive Committee Meeting Possible Faculty Handbook change on number of ombudspersons Resolution from Faculty-Staff Benefits Committee on wellness program study. Remarks of Senate President on campus Budget Hearings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PROPOSED CHANGE TO THE FACULTY HANDBOOK: TIMELINE-PROCESS: 1. For approval by email from the Faculty Affairs Committee by Monday March 19th, 2007 2. For deliberation by the Faculty Senate Faculty Affairs Committee on Monday March 19th, 2007 3. First Reading to the Faculty Senate on Monday April 2nd, 2007 4. For action by the Faculty Senate on Monday April 30th, 2007. PROPOSED CHANGE: To change the number of Faculty Ombudspersons from 3 to 2. RATIONALE: The workload of the office averaged about 15 hours a month in 2006. Appointing two faculty members to work in this capacity should be more than adequate. Having two ombudspersons will still facilitate continuity in services while ensuring neutrality when a faculty concern comes from a faculty member from the ombudspersonšs department or college. PROPOSED NEW LANGUAGE: 5.2 Faculty Ombudspersons Faculty ombudspersons are (delete: three) two distinguished members of the faculty selected by the chief academic officer and the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate. Faculty ombudspersons facilitate informal conflict resolution at the request of faculty members. The ombudspersons serve as consultants for faculty members needing advice to resolve problems and may serve as informal mediators if the faculty member has not started an appeal through the administrative or faculty senate channels described in sections 5.3 and 5.4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------