ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES

: Mey 7, 1987
: Kenneth Wilson, Faculty Senate Chair
: Holly Nethews, Chair of Committee on Cosaittees

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Connittee Meanbers:

Roger Eldridge, Education

Mertha Engelke, Nursing

Ted Gartaan, Social Work

Dan Hines, Business

Holly Mathews, Sociology end Anthropology
Robert Woodside, Math

Ex-officio: Frank Seunders, Hath
Ken Wilaon, Sociology and Anthropology

Committee Hestings:

October 2, 1986 -- Absent: Hone

Oct 16, 1986 -- Wilson (ex-officio)
January 22, 1987 -- Engelke

February 20, 1987 -- Seundersa (ex-officio)
March 20, 1987 -- Absent: Seunders (ex-officio)

April 10, 1987 -- Absent: Eldridge and Engelke;
Saunders and Wilson (ex-officio)

Reports to Faculty Senete:

April 15,

Specific inatructions, if any, given to the committee by
the Faculty Senate, other than those found in the
committee’s Constitutional cherge.

None

A brief statenent of committee organization, subcomnittees,
research activities, etc.

Holly Methews, Chair
Robert Woodside, Vice-Chair
Wartha Engelke, Secretery

At the April 10 meeting a subcomaittee wes forned to
research the history and rationale behind past ex-officio
appointaents to Faculty Senate Committees. The sub-
committee is chaired by Robert Woodside and includes

Ted Gartman and Roger Eldridge. It was charged to
report back to the entire comnittee at the first

 
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meeting in the Fall of 1987.
List of Committee Accoaplishaents:

(1) The Committee recommended editorial changes to clarify
nexbership provisions in the charges of the Research

and Creative Activity Committee and the Teaching

Grents Cozmaittee to the Faculty Senate;

The Committee proposed resolutions to the Senate to
create a new Unit Code Screening Comaittee and to
revise the charge of the Faculty Governance Connittee;
The Coamittee solicited volunteers and reconmanded
slates of nominees for Faculty Assembly delegates, for
Faculty Senate Committees, and for faculty slots on
Administrative Conmnittees;

The Committee denied a request from Charles R. Coble to
substitute a representative fron the Council for
Teacher Educetion for the representative of the Teacher
Education Committee on the Educational Policies and

Planning Connittee.
Citation of the Resolution SBumbers of Senete Resolutions:

Senate Resolution Bumber 86-27 originated with
the Committee on Committees.

Proposals and Business Carried Over to Next Year:

(1) Consideration of a request froma the Continuing
Education Committee to ammend the charge to
add one ex-officio and one faculty seaber to
the Comaittee;
(2) Review of rationale for past ex-officio appointaents
to Faculty Senate Committees pending subcommittee report.

Evaluation of the Comaittee:

Structure: auch improved with addition of new neabers
aerving ateggered teraa; nore continuity.

Duties: astisfactory

Functions: satisfactory

Personnel: satisfactory

Suggestions for Improving Committee Effectiveness:

The Connittee suggested improverents in the procedure
for soliciting volunteers for Feculty Senate Comaittees.

We reconmend increased communication with the Chancellor
end with the Deans of the various achools in order

to convince them of the need to encourage the feculty to
serve on Faculty Senate Committees.