Announcements:

Call to Service: University Stanting Committees are now accepting your application to serve. 
USC Application or Nomination Form 2008

PowerPoint Presentation of the Report to the Faculty Senate 
by Associate Provost for Academic Budget & Planning John Day 
Understanding Health Care Budgeting
5/2/2008

The following are resolutions that have either been passed or are pending:

• A resolution calling for Evaluation of President/Provost.  FIRST READING 4/14/08
  
• A resolution on Health Benefits Surpluses 2008.  FIRST READING 4/14/08
  
• A resolution on Faculty Compensation Initiative 2008.  FIRST READING 4/14/08
  
• A resolution on Annual Compensation 2008.  FIRST READING 4/14/08
  
• A Sense-of-the-Senate resolution to support Student Senate resolution 0708-20 on the Board of Trustees Policy for Presidential Evaluation.  PASSED 3/10/08
  
• A resolution on a proposed amendment to procedures for tenure and advancement in rank and recommendations for salary increases.       PASSED 3/10/08 -- SIGNED
  
• A rewritten resolution regarding changes in detenuring language.  First reading TABLED 1/14/08
  
• A rewritten resolution regarding the creation of a University Standing Committee on benefits  PASSED 11/19/07 --NOT SIGNED Provost Response
  
• Eleven bundled sense-of-the-senate resolutions regarding the Five Year Academic Action Plan. PASSED *11/05/07
  
• A resolution regarding creating a standing committee on benefits.   
  PASSED 6/11/2007--NOT SIGNED Provost Response
• A resolution regarding Shared Governance.
  PASSED 6/11/2007--NOT SIGNED Provost Response
• A resolution clarifying detenuring language in the Handbook.  
  PASSED 6/11/2007--NOT SIGNED Provost Response
• A resolution regarding faculty compensation. 
  PASSED 4/16/2007--NOT SIGNED Provost Response
• A resolution regarding employee share of health care costs.  WITHDRAWN 3/12/07
  
• A resolution regarding administrative salaries.  WITHDRAWN 3/12/07
  
• A resolution expanding and clarifying the grievance procedure found in Section II.G. of the Handbook. 
  PASSED  4/16/2007--SIGNED
• A resolution bringing Handbook language regarding sexual harassment into compliance with state and federal law.  PASSED 4/16/2007--SIGNED 
• A rewritten resolution to place language about tenured and tenure-track faculty workload in the Handbook.  PASSED 4/16/07--NOT SIGNED  Provost Response
• A resolution to place language about tenured and tenure-track faculty workload in the Handbook.  PASSED 4/16/07--NOT SIGNED  Provost Response
• A resolution to add learning outcomes to syllabi. 
  PASSED 3/12/07--SIGNED
• A resolution to allow early retired faculty to use summer as their teaching quarter if they are in colleges that include summer as a normal part of a faculty member's annual contract.  PASSED 2/12/07--SIGNED
  
• A resolution adding language regarding the Family Medical Leave Act to the Handbook.  PASSED 2/12/07.
  
• A resolution affirming our commitment to academic integrity as  core value.  PASSED 1/8/07.
  
• A resolution updating Handbook language to reflect creation of new Office of Outreach and Regional Campuses.  PASSED 1/8/07.
  
• A resolution formalizing the disposition of Senate resolutions once they have been passed.  PASSED 11/13/06.
  
• A  resolution regarding catalog of entry provisions with the move to biennial printing of catalogs.  TABLED 6/12/06.
  
• A "sense of the Senate" resolution stating that the Senate will continue work on the Faculty Categorization Initiative. 
• A resolution clarifying the sequence of events in an appeal of denial of tenure and/or promotion.  PASSED 6/12/06.
  
• A resolution clarifying catalog language regarding Tier III and Tier III equivalent classes.  PASSED 5/15/06.
  
• A resolution changing Tier II requirements by redefining the areas, increasing them to six area, requiring that students take at least three hours in each of the six areas.  PASSED 5/15/06.
  
• A resolution asking that specific metrics be included in Vision Ohio goals regarding the hiring of additional Group I faculty.  PASSED 5/15/06.
  
• A resolution asking that standing committees be used as much as possible, that new committees be created sparingly and that ad hoc committees be used sparingly.  PASSED 5/15/06.
  
• A resolution on shared governance regarding a non-voting faculty member on the Board of Trustees and on the President's Cabinet and regarding the use of standing committees.  PASSED.
• A resolution clarifying language regarding the admission of students who have been on probation at other institutions.  PASSED4/17/06.
• A resolution regarding monitoring or electronic recording of classroom activities.  This resolution specifies that the knowledge and permission of the instructor is required.  PASSED 4/17/06.
  
• A resolution regarding grades of "I" that become an "F" if requirements are not completed by the sixth week of the quarter in which the student is next enrolled.  This resolution specifies that the "I" will become an "F" in the next quarter in which the student is enrolled or within two years, whichever comes firs.  PASSED 2/13/06.