ACADEMIC,
APPELLATE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE
ANNUAL
REPORT
2009-2010
Academic Year
COMMITTEE:
University Environment Committee
1. Membership
(include ex-officio members):
Ivana Alexandrova, Joyce
Buck, Steven Crick, Amy Gross-McMillan, Tim Kelley, Marianne Montgomery, Mike O’Driscoll, Jill Twark, Bob Chin,
John Core, John Gill, Eric Gardner, Mohammed Hakima,
Bill Koch, Hunt McKinnon
2.
Meeting Dates (include members present*).
3. Subcommittees
established during the year (include progress and/or completion of work).
Faculty
environmental sustainability survey – in progress (Bob Chin and Hunt McKinnon)
4.
Accomplishments during the year, especially as addressed through committee
goals. Please include recommendations made to any University agency other
than the Faculty Senate that will be noted under #5.
a.
Consultation with ECU Master Plan Committee on issues related to the
campus
environment (building, lighting,
resources, etc.)
b.
Cooperation with Aramark concerning Campus Dining
activities related to the campus
and community environment (e.g., trayless
cafeteria, farmers market, purchase of local
food products for cafeterias, etc.)
c. Cooperation with SGA and EcoPirates student group on various initiatives (e.g.,
Recyclemania)
d. Development, approval and public announcement of
campus-wide “Green Get to ECU Day” to promote alternative
environmentally-friendly transportation options (intended to be extended to a
monthly event). Proposal initiated by
new UEC member Ivana Alexandrova*.
e. Cooperation with, and Chairs regular co-attendance
of, ECU Sustainability Committee and UEC meetings.
5.
Reports to the Faculty Senate.
a. Request to add Aramark
representative as ex-officio UEC member (denied by
Committee
on Committees in January 2010)
6. Business
carried over to next year (list in priority order).
A. Faculty
environmental sustainability survey – in progress (Bob Chin and Hunt
McKinnon). Survey to be related to
curriculum instruction, faculty research,outreach
and service.
B. Continued involvement in the Master
Planning process.
C. Continued coordination with ECU
Sustainability Committee.
7.
Evaluation of the committee (include anything that hindered or assisted the
committee's work during the year).
A.
Charge: Points G
and H of the new charge, adopted and approved in academic year 2008-2009, are
helpful, because they allowed the UEC to implement the "Green Get to ECU
Day" initiative.
B.
Personnel: Jill Twark resigned as UEC Regular member and Chair (due to leave-of-
absence). Tim Kelley voted Vice-Chair in fall 2009 and
assumed Chair duties in
Spring 2010.*Ivana
Alexandrova added as Regular member in January 2009.
C. Attendance:
D. Responsibilities:
E. Activities:
8.
Suggestion(s) to the Chair of the Faculty and/or Faculty Senate for improving
the effectiveness of the committee. None.
9.
Does the Committee’s organizational meeting next year need to be earlier than
the date set this year? August, 2010 UEC meeting to be
proposed.
Signed: Chairperson ________________________________
Secretary _______________________________