EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES

Present: Bryant, Latta, Miller, Scheideler, Whitt

Absent: Aguilar, Bender, Humes, Mayo, Prochaska-Cue, Siekman, Zorn

Date: March 8, 2000

Location: City Campus Union, Regency B

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Prior to the Executive Committee Meeting the Committee attended a presentation by the Institutional Marketing Team

1.0 Call to Order (Latta)

Latta called the meeting to order at 4:16 PM.

2.0 Announcements

2.1 Speaker's Bureau

Latta announced that faculty are being sought to serve on the Speaker's Bureau. She asked for recommendations from the committee.

3.0 Approval of 3/1/00 Minutes

Approval of the minutes was postponed due to the lack of a quorum.

4.0 Bookstore Committee

Latta reported that Bob Carlson, Manager of the University Bookstore is leaving UNL. She asked the committee whether they should continue with the creation of the Bookstore Committee. The Executive Committee agreed that they should go forward with it.

5.0 No Limits Regional Conference

Latta reported that the 7^th Annual No Limits Regional Conference has requested financial support from the Academic Senate. She noted that the Senate has provided some financial help in the past for this conference. Miller suggested that, due to the limited funding of the Academic Senate, a policy should be created regarding what types of function the Senate can support. The committee agreed to have Coordinator Griffin review the past history of financial support from the Senate to campus organizations. She will report back to the committee at the 3/22/00 meeting and they will then make a decision on whether to provide support for this conference.

6.0 Faculty Roles Initiatives

Latta asked the committee to suggest names of faculty who may be interested in working on the Faculty Roles Initiatives. The committee suggested some names of faculty and Latta requested that any additional names be sent to her.

7.0 Senate Meeting

The committee discussed issues raised at the March 7^th Academic Senate meeting. In particular, the Student Absence Form, and the suggestion to duplicate the form. Latta

stated that it is unclear whether the Office of Academic Affairs or Student Affairs would be responsible for the cost of producing duplicating these forms.

Latta stated that Bender will take the issues raised at the Senate meeting regarding Bylaw 4.3 back to the Academic Rights and Responsibilities Committee for their input. She stated that she has concerns with the suggestion of adding language that indicate a timing process. She pointed out that such a time limit would apply to both administrators and faculty and therefore could be restrictive to the faculty member. Bryant noted that there is currently a grievance procedure in place that a faculty member can use should there be a recurring problem with the enforcement of Bylaw 4.3.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:57 pm. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 22, 2000 at 3:00 pm in the Academic Senate Office, 420 University Terrace. Respectfully submitted, Miles Bryant, Secretary.