University of Iowa
FACULTY SENATE
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
3:30 – 5:15 pm
Senate Chamber, Old Capitol
AGENDA
- Call to Order
- Approvals
- Agenda
- Minutes of the September 11, 2007, Faculty Senate meeting
- Replacements – (Michael O’Hara)
- Robert Glasgow (Art & Art History) to replace Daniel Balderston (Spanish & Portuguese) on the Faculty Senate for Spring 2008 (to represent CLAS, Group 1)
- Robert Glasgow (Art & Art History) to replace Daniel Balderston (Spanish & Portuguese) on the Faculty Senate for Spring 2008 (to represent CLAS, Group 1)
- Guest Speaker: Lola Lopes, Interim Executive Vice President and Provost
- Provost Search Update (Michael O’Hara)
- Reports
- Issues from FRIC
- Benefits: Plan Design Changes for January 1 (Richard Saunders, Senior Associate Director of Human Resources)
- Sheldon Kurtz (Flex Credits)
- Information about 21-Only Ordinance
- New Business
- Deborah Schoenfelder, Chair of the University Libraries Charter Committee and Thomas Charlton, former Chair re: University Libraries re: Authors’ Rights Issues
- Smoking Policy (Sue Buckley, Joni Troester)
- Thomas Charlton – Proposed changes to Ops Manual for charter of Library Committee