The fourth meeting of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly for 1996-97 was convened in 25 Law Building, Minneapolis campus, on Thursday, May 15, 1997, at 4:10 p.m. Checking or signing the roll as present were 112 voting faculty/academic professional members, 28 voting student members, 1 ex officio member, and 5 nonmembers. President Nils Hasselmo presided.

The election of the Vice Chair was postponed until the first meeting in the fall at which time student leadership positions will be filled.

That the Faculty Assembly approve the following slate of nominees to fill two 1997-2000 vacancies on the Assembly Committee on Committees:

AVNER BEN-NER: Professor, Industrial Relations Center, Carlson School of Management. University Senate Member: 1994-97. Committee participation: Professional Studies Provostal Faculty Consultative Committee; Provost's Council; Senate Faculty Affairs Committee (chair); Senate Faculty Retirement Plan Subcommittee (chair); Senate Finance and Planning Committee; Center for Labor Policy Advisory Board; Institute of Public Affairs Ph.D. Planning Committee; University Health Plans Task Force; U of M Hearing Officers' Panel; School of Management Faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee.

JOHN BRYSON: Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. University Senate Member: 1995-98. Committee participation: Assembly Student Behavior Committee; Professional Studies Provostal Faculty Consultative Committee; Social Science Policy Review Committee; Central Administration's Administrative Development Program in Strategic Planning and Decision Making. Other: Humphrey Institute Reflective Leadership Center Director, effective 7/1/97; Management Concentration, Chair, 1991-92 and 1994-present; Director, Center for Information Technology and Group Decision Support, 1991-present; Director, Master of Planning Program, 1989-91.

KAREN KARNI: Professor, Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Medical School. University Senate Member: 1992-95. Committee participation: Senate Educational Policy Committee; Senate Finance and Planning Committee; North Central Accreditation Team-Self Study; University-wide Selection Committee to choose Morse- Alumni awardees; University of Minnesota Commission on Women; Medical School Conflict Review Committee. Other: Special Grants Program Evaluator, 1991 and 1994; Medical School Coordinator, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, 1985-present.

SALLY KOHLSTEDT: Professor, History of Science & Technology, Institute of Technology. University Senate Member: 1995-98. Committee participation: Search Committee for Vice President of Minority Affairs (Chair); President's Committee on History of the University; University of Minnesota Commission on Women; Executive Committee of the Commission on Women (Chair); President's Task Force on Liberal Education; Hill Visiting Professorship Selection Committee; HHH Research Planning Group. Other: Chair-elect of the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, 1997-00; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Institute of Technology, 1989-95.

INFORMATION:

The Twin Cities Campus Assembly Bylaws specify that the Assembly shall elect by written ballot at its spring quarter meeting faculty/academic professional members to fill vacancies on the Assembly Committee on Committees from a slate of candidates provided by a special nominating committee. Other candidates may be nominated by petition of 12 members of the Assembly. Petitions to nominate candidates not on the slate must be in the hands of the Clerk of the Assembly on the day before the meeting at which the election is to be conducted.

The elected Twin Cities faculty/academic professional members of the committee whose terms continue at least through 1997-98 are:

Professor James Houck, a member of the Nominating Committee, presented the slate of candidates to the Assembly. After the slate was approved, paper ballots were distributed and Professors Karen Karni and Sally Kohlstedt were elected to 3 year terms on the Committee on Committees.

APPROVED

The meeting was adjourned at 4:20.