FACULTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Minutes

Tuesday, October 22, 2002

PRESENT: William Beeman (Chair), Carolyn Dean, James Egan, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Constantine Gatsonis, John Savage, Susan Short

ABSENT: Mary Ann Doane, Michael Rosen

GUESTS: Russell Carey, Russell Church, Peter Gromet, Peter Richardson

Professor Beeman, Chair, opened the meeting at 3:08 p.m. Minutes of the October 8, 2002 meeting were approved as submitted.

The Chair introduced Russell Carey, Secretary to the University, and thanked him for working with the FEC Task Force on Faculty Governance.

Professor Beeman gave a Chair’s Report. He asked for the FEC’s approval to extend special thanks at the November 5 faculty meeting to Deans Joan Lusk and Tom Wunderlich for their many years of service to the Graduate School. The FEC responded favorably. Committee reports from the College Curriculum Council, Graduate Council, and Advisory Committee on Summer Studies were distributed to the FEC for review. At the October 29 FEC meeting, the Committee will vote whether or not to accept the reports. The FEC agreed to include the committee reports on the November 5 faculty meeting agenda with the understanding that they be read thoroughly before October 29.

The FEC, members of the Task Force, Peter Richardson (Parliamentarian), and Russell Carey reviewed the Task Force’s final revisions and motions to the faculty, which will be discussed further at today’s Faculty Forum on Faculty Governance at 4:00 p.m. The FEC decided that if all the motions are rendered not problematic, they should all be on the agenda for the November 5 faculty meeting. Any motions not covered at the November faculty meeting will be carried over to the December 3 faculty meeting as Old Business.

Procedures on how to present the motions and amendments at the faculty meeting were discussed. Twelve motions were reviewed and some of the language either revised or deleted. After careful deliberation, a motion was made and seconded to approve that all twelve motions be forwarded to the faculty for a vote at the November 5 faculty meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:58 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Cheryl A. Moreau

Secretary