The first meeting of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly for 1999-00 was convened in the Whiting Proscenium Theatre, Minneapolis campus, on Thursday, September 30, 1999, at 3:15 p.m., as a joint meeting of the University Senate, Faculty Senate, and Twin Cities Campus Assembly. Coordinate campuses were linked by telephone. Checking or signing the roll as present were 101 voting faculty/academic professional members, 23 voting student members, 3 ex officio members, and 5 nonmembers. Vice Chair Roberta Humphreys presided.
Other 1999-00 meetings of the University Senate, Faculty Senate, Student Senate, and Twin Cities Campus Assembly are scheduled as follows:
Members are also asked to hold Thursday, December 9, as another possible meeting date.
Twin Cities Campus Assembly
Resolution Regarding Food Services
(http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/resolutions/foodsrvcres.html)
| Approved by the: | Assembly February 18, 1999 Administration May 1999 Board of Regents - no action required |
| Approved by the: | Assembly April 22, 1999 and May 20, 1999 Administration July 1999 Board of Regents PENDING |
| Approved by the: | Assembly April 22, 1999 Administration July 15, 1999 Board of Regents - no action required |
Annual reports for each of the following committees may be found on their web pages, which can be found at the following URL: http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/comlist.html:
Agenda Items 7. through 11. are considered to be non-controversial or "housekeeping" in nature and are offered as a "Consent Agenda" to be taken up as a single item with one vote. Any item will be taken up separately at the request of a senator. (A simple majority is required for approval.)
The University Senate, Faculty Senate, Student Senate, and Twin Cities Campus Assembly minutes are available on the Web at the following URLs:
The chairs of the University Senate, Faculty Senate, Student Senate, and Twin Cities Campus Assembly recommend the following officers for 1999-00:
Twin Cities Campus Assembly committee memberships for 1999-00:
EDUCATIONAL POLICY - Faculty/PA: Judith Martin (chair), Gordon Hirsch, Emily Hoover, Karen Seashore Louis, Kathleen Newell, Riv-Ellen Prell, Richard Skaggs, Suzanne Bates Smith, Thomas Soulen, Steven Sperber. Students: 4 to be named. Ex Officio: Darwin Hendel, Christine Maziar, Craig Swan.
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS - Faculty/PA: Kathryn Sedo (chair), David Bernlohr, Geoffrey Maruyama, 3 to be named. Faculty Representatives: Norman Chervany, 1 to be named. Civil Service: Duane Nelson. Alumni: Walter Bowser, Darrell Thompson, 1 to be named. Students: 3 to be named. Ex Officio: John Blanchard, McKinley Boston, Mark Dienhart, Chris Schoemann, Chris Voelz.
STUDENT BEHAVIOR - Faculty/PA: Nancy Ehlke (chair), John S. Anderson, John Brownbill, Jessie Daniels, Jay Hatch, Luis Ramos-Garcia, Eden Torres, John Vessey, at least 1 to be named. Students: at least 10 to be named. Ex Officio: Betty Hackett.
FOR INFORMATION:
ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER PROVOSTAL FACULTY CONSULTATIVE - Faculty: Muriel Bebeau (chair), James Boulger, Patricia Ferrieri, Judith Garrard, Kathleen Krichbaum, Robert Miller, Stephanie Valberg, Timothy Wiedmann. Ex Officio: Daniel Feeney, 1 to be named.
ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER PROVOSTAL STUDENT CONSULTATIVE - Students: Bruce Trimble (chair), Emily Irwin, Resa Jones, Gina Lee, Heather McCurdy, 3 to be named.
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES - Faculty/PA: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (acting chair), John S. Anderson, Muriel Bebeau, Karen Karni, Naomi Scheman, 1 to be named. Students: Ben Bowman, Irene Kao, Hoang Uyen Nguyen, Barbara Van Drasek.
STEERING - Faculty: Fred Morrison (chair), Linda Brady, Mary Dempsey, David Hamilton, Mary Jo Kane, Joseph Massey, V. Rama Murthy, Paula Rabinowitz. Students: Jed Ipsen, Jason Reed, Tiffany Stedman, Aaron Street, 2 to be named. Ex Officio: Stephen Gudeman, Roberta Humphreys, Judith Martin, Barbara Van Drasek.
SALLY GREGORY KOHLSTEDT, Acting Chair
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Part A:
Amendment to Twin Cities Campus Assembly Rules, Article III, Section 2 (additions are in CAPS; deletions are in [brackets]):
2. Ex Officio members of Assembly Committees
Ex officio members shall be appointed from each of the offices listed below and are non-voting positions unless otherwise noted.
- Educational Policy--Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost (two representatives, including the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education); Dean[,] OF THE Graduate School
- Intercollegiate Athletics--2 Faculty Representatives (voting); Director[,] OF Men's Intercollegiate Athletics; Director[,] OF Women's Intercollegiate Athletics; Director[,] OF Academic Counseling for Intercollegiate Athletics; Athletic Compliance Coordinator; central administrative officer responsible for Intercollegiate Athletics
...
- Student Behavior--[Office of the Vice President, Student Development and Athletics] UNIVERSITY GRIEVANCE OFFICE
DISCUSSION:
The Consent Agenda was approved with no discussion.
APPROVED
MOTION:
To amend the Twin Cities Campus Assembly Constitution, Article VI. Either a
two-thirds majority of all voting members (117) of the Assembly at one meeting,
or a majority of all voting members (88) of the Assembly at each of two
meetings is required for approval. This is the first meeting at which this
item is being presented. [deletions are struck-out]
ARTICLE VI. AMENDING PROCEDURE
An amendment to this Constitution shall be approved either by a two-thirds
majority of all voting members of the Assembly at a meeting, or by a majority
of all voting members of the Assembly at each of two meetings; and provided the
proposed amendment has been distributed, in writing, to the persons and in the
manner provided in Article II, Section 5, for distribution of the Assembly
agenda, at least ten days prior to the date of the vote on the approval of the
proposed amendment. An amendment shall be effective following approval by the
Assembly, the University Senate, and the regents.
COMMENT:
In the course of preparing a bylaw change for the Senate, Senate staff discovered that the Assembly constitution requires that the University Senate must approve Twin Cities Campus Assembly constitutional amendments. No other campus assembly has such a requirement in its constitution, and no one was able to identify a rationale for such a provision. The Business and Rules Committee recommends that the requirement be deleted.
FRED MORRISON, Chair
BUSINESS AND RULES COMMITTEE
DISCUSSION:
Professor Fred Morrison, chair of the Senate Consultative Committee (SCC), said that this year, when the Business and Rules Committee was conducting business, it discovered that amendments to the Twin Cities Bylaws, in accordance with the Twin Cities Constitution, require approval by the Senate. This has not been the practice for the last twenty years, and therefore the motion asks that this requirement be deleted.
With no discussion, a vote was taken with 81 in favor and none opposed. The motion was not approved since it required 117 in favor and will return to the Assembly on December 2.
NOT APPROVED
NONE
10. NEW BUSINESS
(Senate Agenda Item 18)
The meeting was adjourned at 4:38 p.m.
Rebecca Hippert
Abstractor