Faculty Senate. Agenda and minutes of the meeting of December 9, 2002. -- Faculty Senate Meetings, 2002-2003, v.16

Agenda: (lnformal statements and proposals) -- (President's report) -- (Committee reports): A. Rules Committee / Elizabeth Behrman -- B. Library Committee / Phillip Parker -- (Old business): A. Discussion and action on the motion regarding mandatory external reviews -- B. Motion from the Library Committee / Senator Parker -- (New business)

Minutes: Summary of action: 1. The Senate approved the Minutes for the November 25, 2002, meeting -- 2. The Senate approved the replacement of Jim Clark by Terrence Decker as the Senator representing the Department of Economics with his term ending 6/04 -- 3. Upon blind ballot, the Senate defeated by a vote of 22-13 the amendment moved at the meeting of November 11, 2002, favoring the principle of mandatory external peer reviews and referring procedural questions to the Faculty Affairs Committee -- 4. Upon blind ballot, the Senate defeated by a vote of 22-11 the main motion moved at the meeting of October 14, 2002, favoring the principle of mandatory external peer reviews -- 5. The Senate heard a presentation by Leonard Clark, the University assistant counsel and EEO Director, describing the USA PATRIOT Act; and, time having expired for the meeting, the Senate tabled the motion from the Library Committee (see Agenda for this meeting, Sec. V.B.) about that statute -- (President's report): Kansas Board of Regents' "Unified Operating Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2004" -- Mandatory external review -- Funding of higher education in Kansas by the Hall Foundation -- (Committee reports): A. Rules Committee: Senators from the Barton School of Business have nominated Terrence Decker to fill the Economics Department seat / Elizabeth Behrman, -- (Old business): A. Discussion of mandatory external peer reviews in tenure cases -- B. Senate then acted upon the main motion to which the amendment had been offered -- C. Presentation on the USA PATRIOT Act / Leonard Clark