University Senate
Proposed: March 5, 2010
Adopted:
REVISED AGENDA
University Senate
Friday, March 5, 2010
105 Jerome Green Hall
1:15 pm
1. Adoption of the agenda
2. Adoption of the minutes of January 29, 2010
3. President’s report
--Impact of the economic crisis on Columbia endowment, budget, and fundraising
4. Executive Committee chair’s report
--Working group on fringe benefits
--Senate 40th anniversary panel discussion
--Follow-up on Campus Planning Task Force report on Manhattanville planning
5. Committee reports
--Education on a Senate process for deliberations on the academic calendar
--Faculty Affairs on a plan to publish agendas for its meetings
--Midyear report from the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing, from member Anna Couturier (CC ’10)
6. New business
--Reapportionment report and recommendations, with a resolution to amend the Statutes by increasing the number of nontenured Senate seats from 15 to 16 (Elections Commission, attached). A valid vote on this resolution will require the participation of three-fifths of all incumbent senators.
--Resolution to amend the Senate bylaws, Section 1, paragraphs (i) and (j). This also requires three-fifths of all incumbent senators.
--Resolution to rename the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures as the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (Education)
--Resolution to rename the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Education)