COMMITTEE:           Committee on Committees

 MEETING DATE:    Tuesday August 31, 2010 at 3:00pm

 PERSON PRESIDING:      Catherine Rigsby

REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:     Catherine Rigsby, Margaret Bauer, Puri Martinez, Enrique Reyes, Wendy Sharer

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:    Marianna Walker, Mark Taggart

 OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE:   Lori Lee

ACTIONS OF MEETING

Agenda Item 1: Election of committee officers

Action Taken:

Catherine Rigbsy elected Chair; Margaret Bauer elected Vice Chair; Wendy Sharer elected Secretary.

Agenda Item 2: Discussion of business carried over from last year.

Action Taken:

Committee members agreed on the following as actions to be taken this year:

· Address vacancies on the Appellate Grievance Board.

· Discuss the charges of the Admission and Retention Policies Committee and the Academic Standards Committee with a view to clarifying the responsibilities of each.

· Discuss membership on Faculty Senate committees with a view to improving communication between Faculty Senate and the Graduate School Administrative Board and to addressing concerns related to distance education.

· Review rosters for Faculty Senate committees and consider requiring charge-specific administrative representatives in order to facilitate communication between committees and administration and to help committees get necessary information.

· Review policies on how many administrative “resource people” can participate in the work of a Faculty Senate Committee and what those resource people can do.

· Investigate the University Athletics Committee charge and roster to see why there is no Faculty Senate representative on that committee.

· Revise the charges for the University Budget Committee and the Educational Policies and Planning Committee so that each reports first to the Faculty Senate rather than to the Chancellor.

· Review the University Environmental Committee quorum because it requires five regular members, rather than four regular members as is typical for Faculty Senate committees.

· Follow up with the Calendar Committee to clarify their request regarding the development of a “visual calendar.”

· Request that the Calendar Committee hold off on setting up dates for distance education exams so that questions about these exams may be discussed in more detail by other relevant committees.

Additional Duties Assigned:

• Committee members will bring names of possible candidates for the vacancies on the Appellate Grievance Board to the Sept. 21 meeting.
• Committee members will read the charges of all Faculty Senate committees and bring notes regarding possible overlaps to the Sept. 21meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 3:58 PM.

Respectfully submitted: Wendy Sharer, September 4, 2010