All spring semester meetings start at 1:30 pm in DW 1001. Agenda and Blog : https://blogs.iu.edu/senate/ Constitution and Committees: https://academics.iusb.edu/academic-senate/index.html Senate 2018-19 Documents : https://iu.box.com/v/senate Senate Archives : http://institutionalmemory.iu.edu/aim/handle/10333/3376 Call… Read more »
Policies & Practices
Senate Agenda, October 20, 2017
All fall semester meetings start at 10:00 am in DW 1001. Call to order Approval of minutes President’s remarks Motion to approve the proposal for the CERES research center (see below) Approving this year’s Senate voting membership of Associate Faculty colleagues Constitution of the Academic Senate, two proposed changes: a) Updating titles and other non-controversial changes… Read more »
PTR discussion
The PTR Committee will bring this document for discussion on Friday during the Senate meeting. Senate PTR Committee Recommended Reappointment Dossier Guidelines Preamble The Faculty Senate PTR Committee is composed of faculty from various academic units on the IUSB campus; efforts are taken to represent as many units as possible on the Committee. The Faculty… Read more »
Signing up for committees
Colleagues who still wish to sign up for any of the appointed committees of the Academic Senate for the 2017-18 year can use this online form to indicate their choices–many thanks! It takes no more than a minute to complete. Updated every day or two: What committees still need members for next year?
Updated campus feedback mechanism
This memo from Executive Vice Chancellor Joseph updates the March proposal, advanced by the Chancellor, which set out a plan for two email feedback addresses, including one focused on advising: Memo – Professional Advisors.
Senate Agenda, April 21, 2017
Spring Semester meetings are held at 1:30 pm in DW 1001. Call to order. The Chancellor’s email-based feedback initiative on advising and other aspects of campus work and life. Details below.* Faculty awards. Approval of minutes. President’s remarks. Executive Committee discussion of a work-study initiative linked to research. Details below.** *The Chancellor’s March announcement of an initiative… Read more »
The campus improvement email sites
Chancellor Allison will take questions about this new initiative in the March 24th Senate meeting. He writes: Thank you for inviting me to speak at the Academic Senate meeting this Friday. At that meeting, I’ll give a brief budget update and other quick news. I also will announce that IU South Bend will begin to… Read more »
ACA-80 annotation
Recent conversations about the role of the Trustees’ Teaching Awards in the promotion and tenure process have produced this agreement, which has been widely circulated across campus at the request of Executive Vice Chancellor Jann Joseph and Academic Senate President Ken Smith. The paragraph provides a close reading of IU policy ACA-80. The IU policy… Read more »