University Senate
Proposed: September 25, 2009
Adopted:
REVISED AGENDA
University Senate
Friday, September 25, 2009
1:15 pm, 501 Schermerhorn
1. Adoption of the agenda
2. Adoption of the minutes of May 1, 2009
3. President’s report
--Current condition of the endowment, fundraising, and the University budget.
4. Executive Committee chair’s report
--Nominations to committees, including the Executive Committee (Standing Committee Roster at the meeting)
--Welcome to new Administration senators Claude Steele (Provost) and Michele Moody-Adams (Columbia College Dean)
--Manhattanville academic planning
5. Reports
--Senior Vice Provost Stephen Rittenberg on the Ethnicity Coding Project now under way for the federal Integrated Postsecondary Educational Data System (IPEDS) (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/vpaa/ethnicity/)
--Elections Commission—update on elections (list of new senators at the meeting)
--Research Officers 2008-09 annual report