Faculty Senate First Meeting May 5, 2005 Achille Messac Faculty Senate President Warmest Welcome! What we do over the next 12 months will have a great Impact on Rensselaer’s future – on ours, and on that on many!

Today’s Agenda (Not in that order, and time permitting)  Self Introduction of members  President’s Personal Remarks  Formulation of OUR vision  Where do we go from here?  This past year  Getting Ready for Next Year

Getting Started:  Self Introduction Getting to know each other Building a Senate Community Building a Rensselaer Community  President’s Personal Remarks  Formulation of OUR vision Top-Down Bottom-Up >> Getting RESULTS with STABILITY As a Community!

Getting Started (Cont.)  This past year: What worked? What did not?  Getting Ready for Next Year Staying the course – where it worked Changing course – for new phase Summer readiness Less time on stalemate. More time on SOLUTIONS!!

Complete Senate Membership Move to approve at-large member for Promotion and Tenure: Pulickel Ajayan FSEC: Move to Approve Chair of Promotion and Tenure Committee: Sunderesh in Fall, Larry Kagan in spring FSEC: Move to Approve chair of Curriculum Committee: Amir Hirsa Move to Approve Ken Warriner as representative from the School of Architecture on the Curriculum Committee FSEC: Move to appoint Chair of Planning and Resources Committee: Dan Berg Move to elect Bob Parsons to the position of Secretary of the Senate (Secret Ballot) Need H&SS member for Curriculum Committee for Fall semester: June Deery on sabbatical. SOMEONE ELECTED

Faculty Senate Meeting This meeting was closed to administrative faculty. No minutes of the discussions were taken. Following Motions were passed: Motion 1: Move that the Faculty Senate obtain independent legal representation. Motion 2: Move that Harvey Randall, Esq. be invited to represent the Faculty Senate and its committees, both ad hoc and standing.

Summer Readiness (Cont.)  Legal Representation Move that legal representation be terminated to allow for the possibility of a cooperative paradigm to emerge between faculty and administration.  Governance Ad-hoc committee Move that Governance Committee be ended, and that new executive committee be charged with offering to the senate its new solution approach. RESULTS with STABILITY Giving new senate the means to succeed.

Where did the system fail? How do we fix it?  Communication Mechanisms Faculty Senate Faculty senate Executive Committee Candidate now ones below: Faculty Representation in Board of Trustees Joint Task Force: Senate-Trustees- Cabinet  Setting a new tone: Both, faculty and administration leaderships Faculty feels ignored. This needs to change. Administration feels it is doing the right things already. This needs to change. Tone of New Senate: Constructive Assertiveness