All regular meetings are held in DW 1001
- Call to order
- Approval of minutes
- SGA president addresses the faculty: Shail Bhagat
- Remarks of the Senate president
- Carnegie Engaged Campus initiative, General Education task force, Higher Learning Commission visit—overview of the year’s activities for each of these major initiatives
- Academic calendar alignment
- DACA statements by McRobbie and Allison. Motion for the Senate to affirm its support for both of these responses to recent actions by President Donald Trump
- Updating the Constitution and Handbook for web publication: progress report, first steps
- CERES research center: motion of support for the formal proposal
- Fill Senate committee vacancies
- UCET and the August 2017 call for excellence in teaching
- Announcements
Document links:
General Education task force calendar and overview document: Gen Ed Task Force Activities 2016-17-1acbgzv and Gen Ed Task Force Goals for 2017-2018-181mrpl
HLC calendar and slides: hlc senate handout1-1-1qkbmx8 and What’s happening with HLC-uxyfbh
Carnegie calendar: Senate Update Sept 2017(1)-160hf7c
UCET teacher-scholar slides: Regional Campus Summit HO Senate -10e1nle
CERES research center handout and report: IusbCeresInfoSheet-1i2cafn and IUSB_CERES_ProposalToIUSBAcademicSenate_September2017-1zekvdr
Proposed DACA wording: DACA-1zocda7 [“The Academic Senate supports the statements by IU President McRobbie and IU South Bend Chancellor Allison on President Trump’s call to end the DACA program.”]
Proposed new agenda order: New ORDER-2a7hzpj