University Senate
Proposed: October 19, 2012
Adopted:
PROPOSED AGENDA
University Senate
Friday, October 19, 2012
1:15 pm, 104 Jerome Greene Hall
1. Adoption of the agenda
2. Adoption of the minutes of September 28, 2012
3. President’s report; questions for the president
4. Executive Committee chair’s updates
--Nominations to committees: the Standing Committee Roster
--Actions under summer powers: establishment of the Data Sciences Institute
--Global Initiatives Task Force
--Fringe benefits; retirement policy
5. Updates on online learning initiatives—Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, and Sharyn O'Halloran, Executive Committee Chair.
See recent press coverage: http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/133475/,
and Educause briefing, “What Campus Leaders Need to Know about MOOCs: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB4005.pdf
6. Open Enrollment options and new benefits policies--PowerPoint presentation by Fiona MacLennan, AVP, Benefits. See http://hr.columbia.edu/files_humanresources/imce_shared/FOBIB-2013.pdf.
7. Update from the Education Committee: Adapting courses to online mode--Letty Moss-Salentijn, co-chair
8. Committee reports:
--External Relations
--Information Technology