DATE: September
4, 2003
TO: Academic
Senate Members
FROM: Keith
Edgerton, Chair
Academic Senate
RE: MEETING
DATE, PLACE, AND AGENDA
The first meeting of the
Academic Senate will be held on Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 3:30
p.m., in the Chancellor’s Conference Room (McM 209).
I. APPROVAL
OF MINUTES
May
1, 2003
June
25, 2003
June
30, 2003 (electronic vote)
August 19, 2003
(retreat)
II. ITEMS
FOR INFORMATION
Item 1 Committee Report – Faculty Development Council: RACE/IPD 2003
Item 2 Committee
Report – Academic Standards and Scholastic Standing Committee 2002-2003.
Item 3 Committee Roster 2003-2004
III. DISCUSSION
ITEMS
A. Possible Senate Initiatives:
1. Enhancing Academic Quality
2. Hidden Cost of New Academic Programs
B. Shared
Governance:
1. Flagship
Programs
2. Long
Range Hiring Plans
3.
Short-term hiring plans
C. General Education
D. Weekly Campus-Wide Meeting Time
E. Senate Representation: CPSLL, and the new CAHP
F. Re-Thinking Student Evaluations
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