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COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FACULTY SENATE MINUTES
September 6, 2005 – 1:30 PM
Hill Hall Room 300

ATTENDEES: Andersen, Christiansen, Dagdelen, Davis, Honeyman, Mehta, Parker, Romberger, Santi, Vincent and Wolden

APOLOGIES: Mishra and Voorhees who is on sabbatical Fall 2005

GUESTS: Nigel Middleton - Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Arthur Sacks - Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Tom Boyd - Associate Dean of Academic Programs, CSM Board of Trustee members - Roger Hutson and Terrance Tschatschula, and Kyle Fitzpatrick - Undergraduate Student Representative ASCSM.

COMMENTS FROM GUESTS:

  1. CSM Board of Trustee members - Roger Hutson and Terrance Tschatschula, discussed the presidential search process with the Senators. Hutson and Tschatschula are the BOT presidential search committee liaisons to the Faculty Senate. The Senators may contact Tschatschula at aspenpetr@aol.com or call 303-782-4928.

APPROVALS:

The minutes of the May 3, 2005 Faculty Senate meeting were approved as amended.

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS:

  1. The Senators agreed to serve on the following committees:
    1. Faculty Senate Secretary - Christiansen
    2. Academic Standards and Policies, Chair - Dagdelen
    3. Committee on Committees, Chair - Andersen
    4. Sports and Athletics, Senate Representative - Santi
    5. Executive Committee of the Senate
      1. Senior Senator - Christiansen
      2. Senator - Santi
    6. Faculty Affairs Committee, Chair - Vincent
    7. Graduate Council, Senate Representative - Wolden
    8. Research Council, Senate Representative - Parker
    9. Undergraduate Council, Senate Representative - Mehta
    10. Readmission Committee, Senate Representative - Romberger
    11. Committee on Evaluation, Chair - Davis

  2. Liaisons to departments/divisions that are not represented on the Faculty Senate
    1. Athletics - Santi
    2. Geophysics - Christiansen
    3. Liberal Arts and International Studies - Vincent
    4. Physics - Wolden

  3. PERA Representative - The Senators requested the Committee on Committees contact Bob Sorgenfrei (Library) - the current representative - and see if he wants to continue serving in this capacity.

  4. University Committees - nominations forwarded to President Trefny by Honeyman
    1. Budget Committee - Honeyman will check with President's Office to ascertain if there is a Senate position on this committee
    2. Handbook Committee - Romberger

The meeting adjourned at 3:35 PM.

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