As Employee Relations Chair and one of the three who requested this open meeting, I do not feel that it should be designated a Faculty Senate meeting.  One of the primary ideas of the meeting is that it is a gathering together of ALL concerned parties.  If it is considered only a Faculty Senate meeting, then the opinions and concerns of the staff who will be gathered there will be diluted.  I don't think this should happen.  We will have someone from the Employee Relations Committee and someone from the Exempt Staff Council there taking minutes, as well.



At 11:38 AM 9/10/03 -0400, Richard Rice wrote:
>As Faculty Secretary under the guidelines in the Faculty Handbook 2.2.3,
>No.1, I have decided to considered the called meeting Thursday, September
>11 at 3:00 P.M. in the Benwood Auditorium, a faculty meeting for the
>purposes of creating minutes for distribution and the official record. It
>will differ in that there is only one agenda item, and staff and others are
>invited, but then regular faculty meetings are always open.
>
>I do so for three reasons:
>
>1. Chancellor Stacy left the Faculty Meeting yesterday immediately
>following his presentation, and both Prof. Ernst and Provost
>    Friedl in their presentations deferred important issues and questions
>to the Chancellor's meeting Thursday, constituting a de facto
>    continuation.
>
>2.  The called meeting at the request of the Faculty Senate (and other
>groups) represents fifteen members of the faculty.
>
>3.   Since both meetings fall on the TTH class schedule (the latter on
>tragic 9/11) the same faculty members will miss both meetings and their
>      contents if minutes are not available. I would not want to suggest
>cancellation of classes on Thursday afternoon in order to participate in
>      this important meeting with the Chancellor.
>
>Any objections?
>
>Richard Rice
>Faculty Secretary

Julia S. Cronin
Student Employment Coordinator
UTC - Financial Aid Office
Chair - Employee Relations Committee
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