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MINUTES
FACULTY SENATE
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA®
 

October 3, 2005 

1.             CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order by Vice Chair Mitchell at 3:02 p.m. in the College of Law, Room 146. Presiding Officer Mitchell reminded visitors in the gallery that they may not speak unless they are recognized by a Senator or by the Presiding Officer of the Senate. He asked that anyone who is recognized to speak please state his/her name and affiliation for the record.

Present:   Senators Baca, Bernsen, Burd, Carrell, Chandler, Christenson, Conway, Cromwell, Cuello, Cusanovich, G. Davis, deWinter, Estrada, Garcia, Green, Gruener, Hammann, Hildebrand, Howell, Jones, Kiefer, Likins, Marchalonis, Mitchell, Mitchneck, Mountford, Mutchler, Nolan, Primeau, Ruiz, Sarid, Silverman, Smith, Spece, St. John, Sterling, Tatman, Ulreich, Ulrich, Willerton, and Zizza. Robert Sankey served as Parliamentarian.

Absent:   Senators Asia, Dahlgran, D. Davis, Jackson, Jenkins, Joens, Pintozzi, Record, San Martin, Songer, Strittmatter, Thorn, Weinand, Wheeland, and Witte.

 

2.             OPEN SESSION

               Professor Emeritus and University of Arizona Retirees Association (UARA) Representative Cornelius Steelink presented a report about the status of the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS) Pension Fund, which is now at $24B and ranks in the top five retirement systems in the country. He also noted that current employee contributions have been raised significantly, in order to keep the ASRS solvent and spoke about UARA’s upcoming events, public forums, legislative activities and book scholarships for undergraduates.

Senator Tyler Carrell, President Bernsen’s Chief of Staff for ASUA reported that the student senate has set a date for the Recreation Center referendum and that students will vote on this issue November 14 and 15. ASUA will encourage students to vote but is not going to take an official stance on the proposal. The original plan was to increase the fee by $84/semester, but now the plan is to extend the current fee beyond 2011 to help expand the Center.

3.             REPORTS

3A.          GPSC President Elaine Ulrich

GPSC President Ulrich expressed concern and support on behalf of the graduate students for ASUA President Cade Bernsen who is just back from his hometown of Beaumont, Texas, where he spent last week assisting his family and his community in the cleanup following Hurricane Rita. President Ulrich attended the ABOR meeting in Flagstaff last week where the non-voting student regent from ASU resigned from ABOR in order to begin working on a larger scale campaign to encourage Arizona students and students’ families to vote in Arizona elections and to hold the legislature more accountable. A new student Regent will be named soon. President Ulrich also gave her compliments to Jory Hancock and the Capital Campaign staff for a spectacular conclusion gala. The Commencement Policy Committee is considering having both a graduate and an undergraduate speaker at Spring Commencements.

3B.          ASUA President Cade Bernsen

Following Hurricane Rita which struck ASUA President Bernsen’s hometown of Beaumont, Texas, he reported that his family is safe although they did suffer significant property damage and that he is humbled by Mother Nature and the experience of participating in the cleanup. He announced that ASUA’s goal for this year is to have one building on campus incorporate renewable solar energy. This project makes environmental sense for reasons beyond global warming. Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada are the three states best equipped to incorporate solar energy and it just makes good business sense. ASUA has chosen the new Visitor Center on University Boulevard for its visibility and economic feasibility. ASUA has a written agreement with Facilities Management to raise half the $150K cost of outfitting this building with solar panels. These solar panels would provide 50% of the electricity for the building every year, and the life expectancy of the panels is about 30 years. In two weeks ASUA will begin a two-pronged campus campaign including education and fundraising with buttons, posters and T-shirts.

3C.          Secretary of the Faculty Jennifer Jenkins


In Secretary Jenkins’ absence, Vice Chair Mitchell reminded Senators of an opportunity to socialize at the reception for Senators and their guests this Thursday in the lower level of the University of Arizona BookStore. The reception is sponsored by the BookStore in an effort to expand its outreach to faculty.
 

3D.          Vice Chair of the Faculty Robert Mitchell

Vice Chair Mitchell announced that the amplification in the Senate room today is an experiment following several requests after last month’s meeting. He welcomed Joel Cuello, the newly elected College Representative Senator from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. As this year’s Chair of the Arizona Faculties Council, Vice Chair Mitchell has been serving on ABOR’s Tuition Study Workgroup, which was formed in response to the Arizona legislature’s law requiring ABOR to provide some options for capping tuition. This study mainly confirmed that when the legislature doesn’t provide adequate funding to the universities, tuition increases. The Workgroup recommended that the presidents issue their tuition requests for the coming year by mid-January, and that the Board rule on tuition and other fees by the following March. Another topic of discussion at ABOR was the relationship between the universities and the community colleges. Some of the community colleges want to offer four-year degrees and this is a political issue that the Board cannot control.

3E.           Chair of the Faculty Wanda Howell

Chair of the Faculty Wanda Howell reported that faculty will have more opportunities for dialogue with Regent Boice and the Search Committee at a Faculty Forum on October 17, 3:30-5:00 in the Student Union North Ballroom, an Open Forum on October 20, 4:00-5:30 in the Arizona Health Sciences Center Room 5403, and another Open Forum on Friday, October 21, 4:00-5:30 in Student Union Gallagher Theater. She is also looking into the possibility of conducting a forum just for faculty to discuss the search and wants to determine what kind of attendance might be expected. Chair Howell urged Senators to encourage colleagues and constituents to complete the Faculty Survey for Interest in University-wide Committee Service.

3F.           Provost George Davis

Following Hurricane Katrina, Provost Davis said he began thinking about who he could invite to campus to help begin a difficult discussion about the disaster and what we learned about ourselves and about the nation and decided to invite poet Robert Pinsky as the “Provost’s Third Visiting Scholar on Creativity and Imagination.” Mr. Pinsky provided dynamic leadership during his three terms as National Poet Laureate as he examined the country and talked to individual Americans about their favorite poems. Mr. Pinksy accepted the invitation and will be on campus November 8-9 giving public readings and presentations on “Sadness and Exhultation.” The Senate joined Provost Davis in congratulating our own Senator, Regents Professor and member of the National Academy of Sciences Vicki Chandler for being one of the 13 out of 840 distinguished scientists chosen to receive the highly competitive “National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award.” The $4M grant will support her research that began in plant genetics and which has the potential to lead to significant advances in human health. In other news of excellence, UA’s College of Education has also been awarded a three-year grant from the US Department of Education to operate the “Equity Assistance Center,” to promote equal education opportunities for all children in California, Nevada and Arizona by providing assistance to public schools in the areas of race, gender and national origin. Richard Ruiz is the Principle Investigator. The US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $1M+ grant to the College of Nursing to establish an online “acute care nurse practitioner” program. Lute and Christine Olson announced at the Capital Campaign gala last Saturday night that they intend to provide leadership in expanding the Cancer Center to become the best in the nation. Provost Davis acknowledged the appointment of Leslie Tolbert as Vice President for Research, Graduate Education and Economic Development. Dr. Tolbert began immediately making significant contributions in Cabinet, Finance Committee and Academic Council. As one of her first actions upon becoming VPR, she addressed the challenge from Senator Barton to Professor Malcolm Hughes and has been helping to frame the UA’s Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) for the next five years to provide a greater rate of return. She is also providing specific advice about how to be certain the University’s indirect cost rate doesn’t slide in the coming critical year. Charles Albanese is doing a stunning job as interim Dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Paul Portney, Dean of Eller College of Management is also making a significant impact. Provost Davis named 24 new department heads and explained that these people have one of the hardest and most important jobs on campus, supporting the fundamental mission of our faculty. Department heads are responsible for so much of the excellence in quality, faculty development, fairness, hospitableness and diversity. Provost Davis recently attended an Association of American Universities (AAU) meeting where he participated in a three-member provosts’ panel with U-Texas and Purdue describing best practices in effecting diversity changes. He has been invited, along with provosts from Penn State, Syracuse and Johns Hopkins Universities, to travel to Australia on another AAU endeavor, working with eight of the of the top universities in that country to create a broader, bi-national partnership with academy colleagues from down under.

3G.          President Peter Likins

President Likins apologized for his and Provost Davis’ absence at the September 12 Senate meeting, which he explained was
unavoidable because they had to attend a meeting of the Governors’ Commission on Medical Education and Research in Phoenix. President Likins acknowledged that the past week was extraordinarily difficult when female basketball player Shawntinice Polk, “Polkey” died suddenly and unexpectedly. He lost a friend and we all lost a valuable member of the student community. President Likins noted that Ms. Polk was representative of a community of students who are admitted to the University because some coach was persuaded that their athletic skills would be valuable to this place. With a lot of help from the SALT Center for students with learning disabilities, however, Polkey demonstrated that she could learn and was due to graduate from the University this spring. She had planned to become a teacher following a career in professional women’s basketball. President Likins participated in the memorial services for Polkey both here and in her hometown of Hanford, California. For the gala event celebrating the successful completion of Campaign Arizona, impresario Jory Hancock gathered outstanding talents and representatives of the University community, to present the University’s achievements to many of the benefactors who have committed to advancing philanthropy for the UA. September’s ABOR meeting included a presentation of the legislatively-mandated consideration of an inflation-based restraint of growth on tuition for continuing students and the impact/obligation that would fall on the state and upon new students. The presentation was intended to be instructive and demonstrated that when general fund allocations decrease, tuition increases, because the institution has to derive the resources necessary to maintain a quality enterprise. The three presidents also presented their response to the Regent’s “university system redesign.” As a result of the Regents’ August 2002 “changing directions” initiative, the UA is now concentrating on becoming more selective in admissions and increasing the quality of the freshmen class, increasing performance and graduation rates, and increasing UA’s ranking among the nation’s top research universities. Working within limited resources, the intent of “focused excellence” was to help the institution to develop and focus on what is truly excellent nationally and internationally. Perhaps what was left out in the earlier discussions was the UA’s land grant mission and outreach responsibilities, which might seem to be in conflict with increased selectivity, research activity and academic reputation. When the concept of mission differentiation with two research universities and three regional universities that was first proposed for the redesign, the AZ community did not accept it. The legislature perceived this idea as elitist, limited, and closing doors to an increasing number of Arizona citizens. The current model still holds mission differentiation as the key to providing the highest quality response within limited resources, so all three Arizona public universities will seek to do two things: 1) advance the academic reputation of the institution, and 2) provide outreach primarily for non-traditional students who are perhaps older or are place-bound, through less stringent admission requirements, a different delivery model, and increased affordability. UA’s missions are discrete but complimentary as it proceeds with these two missions due to the physical limitation of the Tucson campus, but the institution can expand indefinitely through UA South, Cooperative Extension, and Continuing Education and 2+2 programs in collaboration with community colleges. UA South does not offer lower division classes, but does offer upper division and Master’s level instruction. NAU will maintain an undergraduate college on the mountain campus and provide outreach to the entire state through 2+2 programs in collaboration with community colleges. President Likins wants the Senate to understand and think clearly about a high quality operation at UA South, UA and UA Phoenix as the medical school expands to that campus. The UA is not declaring a 40,000 cap on enrollment, but rather is declaring that the physical boundaries of the Tucson campus have a responsible capacity of about 40,000. The University has an indefinite expansion capability by utilizing UA main campus facilities for evenings and weekend classes together with UA South, Continuing Education and Cooperative Extension and partnering with community colleges.  This outreach mission does not alter the focused excellence vision or goals for gradually increased selectivity in admissions, higher graduation rates, increased ratio of graduate to undergraduate instruction, and becoming more like our aspirational peers.

4.             QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIOD FOR AGENDA ITEM 3

Senator Silverman acknowledged the ASUA for its solar energy initiative and hopes the Senate and the campus will receive information about contributing to ASUA’s solar project.

Senator Ulreich expressed distress about the concept of complimentary but different missions of UA and UA South. He heard similar language from Vice Provost Hogle describing “separate but co-equal.” He is concerned that this separation may become hard to ascertain and that there is no equality between the UA degree and the admittedly cheaper and less prestigious degree from UA South.  President Likins responded that the Senate needs to consider the needs and the possibility of a quality education experience for every student in our state. Some students with straight “As” coming out of high school should rightfully be challenged with the UA educational experience, but other students who are perhaps middle-aged or have family obligations but now aspire to teach or join the workforce need educational opportunities that are responsive to their academic backgrounds and that are available to them both at times and in places when they can attend. UA South and Pima Community College are meeting that population’s needs, which does not mean that the education is inferior, but it is different. Senators have to think in terms of the needs of carefully defined constituencies. Vice Chair Mitchell suggested that this topic be placed on a future Senate Agenda.

5.                    APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 12, 2005

The minutes of September 12, 2005 were approved.

6.                   APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA ITEM FORWARDED AS A SECONDED MOTION FROM THE INSTRUCTION AND CURRICULUM POLICY COMMITTEE (attachment)

The consent agenda item forwarded by the ICPC and detailed at the end of these minutes [Motion 2005/06-13], was approved.

7.                   INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION AND ACTION: APPROVAL FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF A DEPARTMENT OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES, UA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE/PHOENIX PROGRAM FORWARDED AS A SECONDED MOTION FROM THE INSTRUCTION AND CURRICULUM POLICY COMMITTEE (attachment)

Instruction and Curriculum Policy Chair J. Pat Willerton explained that this item, the approval for establishment of a Department of Basic Medical Sciences, UA College Of Medicine/Phoenix Program, was forwarded by the ICPC as a seconded motion [Motion 2005/06-14].  The ICPC unanimously endorsed this item at its meeting two days after the Senate Executive Committee meeting. Because of this timing, the item did not make it onto the ICPC’s Consent Agenda. Vice Chair Mitchell affirmed that is the only reason this item is not on Consent Agenda. Senators’ concerns and questions included: 1) Where is the $10M in funding coming from? College of Medicine Academic Affairs Dean Kenneth Ryan responded that the money has already been appropriated. This department formation essentially provides the organization structure for the College of Medicine in Phoenix, so all the funding which is mostly faculty salaries is included in the $6M that was passed last Spring. The $10M is anticipated growth, but the department will start with $6M. Motion passed unanimously.

8.                   APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA ITEM FORWARDED AS A SECONDED MOTION FROM THE SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (attachment)

Vice Chair Mitchell delayed this item until the November meeting because of Regent Boice’s visit. Senator Silverman requested that this item appear as a regular agenda item for discussion and possible action, rather than as consent agenda item.

9.                    DISCUSSION WITH REGENT FRED BOICE, CHAIR OF THE UA PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE (attachment)

Vice Chair Mitchell welcomed Regent Fred Boice and advised the Senate that Regent Boice has already met with the Senate Executive Committee and with the Committee of Eleven, and that they have been impressed with the quality of the dialogue. Regent Boice said he appreciates the opportunity to meet with the Senate today. About eight months ago, Regent Boice was informed by then-ABOR President Gary Stuart that the job of Search Committee chair would probably fall to him, so he began looking around at different universities to determine the characteristics needed for the various aspects of the job of president of a major university. He acknowledged that finding a worthy successor will be most difficult. He described two sets of characteristics involved in the search that seem to align into a Venn diagram with minimal overlap. One circle includes professional scholarly research credentials, which are profoundly important at UA, and the other circle includes successful experience in administration, entrepreneurship and organizational fundraising. The individual the search committee is seeking falls in the intersection of those two circles, which will probably be a small pool. He emphasized how important the faculty’s opinions are in this search and he asked the Senate to help him determine how to prioritize and weigh these aspects and determine what qualities are uppermost in importance for the next President to possess. Regent Boice is a life-long Tucson/southern Arizona resident and remembers the UA before it rose to its current eminence; he has received a number of applications expressing interest in this position. This initial search process involves constructing an “N” list representing persons whose names are submitted as nominees (unknown to them), “I” representing persons who have directly expressed an interest in the position, and “A” for applications. He is most pleased with the search consultants, Ann Hasselmo and Stan Eikenberry. Ann Hasselmo has the added benefit of being the wife of Nils Hasselmo, a former UA provost well-known to most UA faculty and the current President of the AAU. Regent Boice believes that the candidate will eventually come from the “N” or “I” lists.

Senators’ comments and questions and Regent Boice’s answers included: 1) Is the “draft” Leadership Characteristics still a “draft?” The Search committee has adopted the list, but Regent Boice recently received several more suggestions that he thought worthy, so he sent those to the Search Committee as well and is willing to add more. 2) It is gratifying to see “shared governance” listed as a part of the characteristics and experience and background. Shared governance is most important to the Senate in particular, and the hope is that the Search Committee will try to discern what a candidates’ shared governance experience is, not only from direct questioning but also by asking faculty, staff and colleagues from the individual’s background who have experienced it. 3) It is hoped that the Search Committee will go out of its way to identify candidate who are women and persons of color, and that they will be considered strongly. Regent Boice responded that he is personally committed to finding the very best person for the job. He hopes that person will be a woman or a person of color, but he will not sacrifice the best quality candidate to achieve that end. 4) Thank you for your receptivity to faculty input and in responding to emails within 48 hours. This is action that proves the policy. 5) In the merging circles of characteristics, entrepreneurship can incorporate scholarly achievements that are outside the traditional academic realm. A new kind of candidate may be needed to provide UA leadership for these very difficult times, particularly financially. We may need to look carefully beyond academia to someone like Bill Gates’ whose entrepreneurship and leadership qualities are superior and who also embodies scholarly talents and achievements that are not academic in the traditional sense. Regent Boice has asked the consultants to look for candidates from corporate and military backgrounds as well as the academy. The candidate will need to help with the lack of enthusiasm for higher education on the part of the legislature, too. This state legislature is not going to give the universities much more money, so we need to continue to be entrepreneurial, as in the Capital Campaign which earned $1.2B. 6) Asked which side of the diagram played the most important role in the past six years, President Likins responded that the Venn diagram model is properly structured, and that any candidate must have demonstrated scholarly credentials but that doesn’t necessarily mean that all the experience has necessarily been at a university. Of equal importance is the instinct and ability to handle the finances of a complex enterprise with creative strategies that enable the institution to function in a difficult operational environment. He is optimistic that a good number of individuals exist that would fall in the intersections of those two arenas, and this is a very attractive presidency. Regent Boice added stamina to the diagram, noting that the university presidency is 24/7/365. 7) In addition to a candidate with the proper academic credentials, some sense of how to work the marketplace, and stamina beyond the imagination of most, but also with a clear and persuasive vision of the potential for UA over the next 5-10 years is needed. Regent Boice agreed that vision is an intangible yet very important thing, and the ability to communicate and to activate the vision is what the Search Committee hopes to elicit from the candidates. 8) Has the Search Committee sought any feedback from state legislators? It is important to know what they are thinking. Regent Boice said the Search Committee is conducting 20 Open Forums, two of which will be held in Phoenix, and they have invited the legislature to come. With 65% of the state’s total budget already committed by prior legislation, that leave 35% of which higher education is only a part. Regent Boice hopes to alter the legislature’s priorities, however. 9) How soon will we actually hear the names of some candidates? Regent Boice responded that a number of years ago, ABOR was the subject of a lawsuit relative to when a candidate’s name must be made public. The court ruled that, when the search has narrowed to a short list of 2-5 candidates who then come to town for interviews, their names must be disclosed to the press. Up until that time, if any member of the Search Committee violates that process, s/he is subject to prosecution. President Likins added that after the public announcement, the process of selection moves exceedingly quickly, perhaps taking only a few days, because if a candidate doesn’t feel s/he is a finalist, they will self-eliminate and withdraw. 10) Thank-you for taking on this difficult job and for listening to so many groups. Please try to impress upon the future president how important it is for colleges such as Humanities that do not have extensive external resources to support their budgets, to be a part of the vision and to receive proper attention because the traditional Arts and Sciences are central to the mission of the teaching campus. 11) The circle model describes a two-dimensional person, but we should seek someone who is the best-rounded in a three-dimensional model with legs for academic, political/business and vision. 12) Are we looking for someone to continue President Likins’ vision or are we actually looking for a radically different vision? Regent Boice doesn’t think a radically different vision is likely, but he hopes that the candidate’s vision would be compatible with resources and the Board of Regents’ ideas. He added that the UA’s shared governance can influence that vision as much as the Board of Regents can. 13) How strict is the Search Committee going to be about the candidates’ earned degree? Is a Ph.D. absolutely necessary? Regent Boice wants to keep the search as broad as possible, but academic credentials are imperative and he can’t imagine a candidate with only a baccalaureate degree. He can, however, envision a candidate without a Ph.D. but with experience and credentials in a service academy, corporation or research-oriented concern. Provost Davis offered the example of his search for the Eller Dean in which an applicant from an unconventional background can rise to the top. The most frequently mentioned candidates were associate deans from management colleges, but Dean Paul Portney qualified with both deep and fundamental research experience and consummate skills on the outside, plus he had spent sabbaticals at places like Berkeley and Princeton. 14) This notion of vision is critical for UA faculty. If we think about the last presidential search in the state, that candidate came in with a very clear vision. I’m not sure that the Board of Regents at that time had any idea whether that vision was convergent with the vision of the faculty and staff at ASU. UA’s faculty needs to make sure the Search Committee knows what they perceive as their vision for the University of Arizona for the next 10, 15 and 20 years. The faculty here should have a sense that, we stated what we thought should be the vision of the University of Arizona and the Search Committee listened and brought in candidates that reflected what we said. 15) We said we want this new president to have a vision. What about ours? What is the faculty’s vision? Is it going to be congruent with the visions of these candidates? We need to let Regent Boice and the Search Committee know what our perception is. Regent Boice responded that the ASU situation was unique and that ASU is a very different environment from UA. President Crow was ambitious and he looked over the map and found Phoenix, Arizona as the one place where he could do what he wanted to do. 16) The academy is failing minorities and women and this should be specifically addressed in the search, especially since it is not happening in the corporate world. 17)  The Search Committee needs to ask, “What can the university be doing to attract faculty when salaries are fueled by the market and what can be done to improve the environment for faculty that is not tied to their salaries?” Regent Boice noted that it would take $157M to get Arizona’s faculty salaries to the 50th percentile. A lot of faculty leave for reasons other than money, however; they are seeking a place where they can do their work. We haven’t had repair money for five years and we are $200-300M behind on the state funding formula. Regent Boice invited Senators to contact him via email at fredboice@aol.com.

10.                 NEW BUSINESS

Senator Gruener requested that the Senate Executive Committee schedule a Senate discussion to consider Senator Howell’s question about our vision for the University. A multitude of individual opinions coming to the Search Committee will not be helpful but the Senate should be able to reach a consensus about the major issues in our vision. Vice Chair Mitchell suggested that this discussion could also include the topic of separate but coequal education.

Provost Davis commented that in most department or college-level searches there is a question of aggressiveness for diversity in recruitment. Most searches are commonly marked by vested interests and scarce resources. Individual faculty members will examine candidates according to how that candidate will impact one’s own sub-disciplinary area of teaching, research and service. The net effect of this fact is that some highly qualified candidates lose ground because of the dynamics of vested interests whereas others don't pan out. What is commonly not looked at from the University level, however, is how, five years later, such a decision plays out. Sometimes a candidate of choice does not pan out at the three-year review or a promotional or tenure evaluation. Provost Davis believes an emphasis needs to be placed on the recruitment of women and minorities. Senator Cusanovich remarked that the process is imperfect and therefore the best we can do is make the very best choice at the time.

11.                 ADJOURNMENT

                There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.

Jennifer L. Jenkins, Secretary of the Faculty
Pamela S. Bridgmon, Recording Secretary

Appendix*

1.        Consent Agenda item forwarded from the Instruction and Curriculum Policy Committee: HLT Master of Science degree

2.        Proposal for New Academic Organizational Unit of Re-organization of Existing Academic Unit(s) for establishment of a Department of Basic Medical Sciences at the UA College of Medicine/Phoenix Program

3.        Consent Agenda item forwarded from the Senate Executive Committee: Exclusionary Order Policy

4.        Presidential Search website, Consultants’ bios, Guidelines for the UA Presidential Search, Tentative Timeline, Draft leadership characteristics, Position announcement, Membership list of the Presidential Search Committee

5.        Report to the UA Faculty Senate from the University of Arizona Retirees Association dated October 3, 2005

*Copies of materials listed in the Appendix are attached to the original minutes and are on file in the Faculty Center.

Motions of the Meeting of October 3, 2005

Motion 2005/06-13 Seconded motion from the Instruction and Curriculum Policy Committee to approve implementation authorization for a new academic program, the Master of Science degree, Human Language Technology major.  Motion carried.

Motion 2005/06-14 Seconded motion from the Instruction and Curriculum Policy Committee to approve establishment of a Department of Basic Medical Sciences, UA College of Medicine/Phoenix Program.  Motion carried.

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