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Faculty Senate – October 13, 2021

Agenda
October 13, 2021
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Physical location: Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
Contact your department Faculty Senator for the zoom link.

Meeting powerpoint slides

Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ Land Acknowledgement
Speaker Jonathan Ochshorn [1 minute]

Call to order
Senate Speaker Jonathan Ochshorn [1 minute]

Announcements [10 minutes]
Dean of Faculty Eve De Rosa

  • Update on Consensual Relationships Policy from the Employee Assembly
  • President’s response to the 2 approved resolutions – Special Senate meeting on September 9th
  • Vote results for ILR-sponsored pending resolutions for a change to Professor titles – Senate meeting on September 22nd
  • Vote results for Senator-sponsored pending resolution for Senate approval for new academic programs – Senate meeting on September 22nd

Financial Policies Committee: Semester Plan [5 minutes]
Chair  – Ravi Kanbur

Educational Policy Committee: NYS Credit Hour Compliance (Credit Hour policy) [5 minutes]
Chair –David Delchamps

Task Force to Review RTE ranks and career progression across the University [5 minutes]
Dean of Faculty Eve De Rosa
Discussion [10 minutes]

Global Hubs presentation [10 minutes]
Vice Provost for International Affairs and Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor – Wendy Wolford
Associate Provost for International Affairs and Associate Professor – Gustavo Flores-Macías
Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies – Rachel Beatty Riedl
Discussion [10 minutes]

Pending Resolutions:
Proposed resolution 1:  Resolution on No Contact Lists in Tenure Cases  [5 minutes]
Presentation of the Resolution Member, Academic Freedom and Professional Status of the Faculty (AFPSF) – Tracy Stokol 
Discussion of the Resolution [10 minutes]

Proposed resolution 2:  Resolution on the External Reviewer Selection Process in Tenure Cases [5 minutes]
Presentation of the Resolution Member, Academic Freedom and Professional Status of the Faculty (AFPSF) – Tracy Stokol
Discussion of the Resolution [10 minutes]

Good of the Order and Adjournment [3 minutes]
Speaker Jonathan Ochshorn

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