University Senate                                                                     

Proposed:  September 24, 2010

Adopted:   

REVISED AGENDA

University Senate

Friday, September 24, 2010

1:15 pm, Davis Auditorium, 412 CEPSR

1. Adoption of the agenda

2. Adoption of the minutes of April 30, 2010

3. President’s remarks

4. Executive Committee chair’s remarks

            --Nominations to committees (roster at the meeting), including Executive Committee

            --Introduction of new senators 

            --Some Senate issues for 2010-11

                        Report from the Presidential Advisory Committee on Sexual Assault (PACSA)

                        ROTC

                        Review of fringe benefits          

                        Future academic planning for Manhattanville (see final report of the Campus Planning Task Force)

                        Proposal for a graduate student center 

5. Committee reports

            Remaining 2009-10 committee annual reports

                        Research Officers        

                        Student Affairs

                        Commission on the Status of Women

                        Information Technology

6. New business

            --Resolution to establish a program leading to the three-year J.D./M.B.A. degree (Education)

           --Sense of the Columbia University Senate: Recommendation on a Graduate Student Center (with executive summary of a report of the Committee on Campus Planning and Physical Development; for the full report, see http://www.columbia.edu/~tt2124/GSCReport.pdf )