Committees, 1998/1999  

Academic and Governance Committee

1. Review Faculty Handbook
2. Review University Calendar
3. Review Academic Standards Committee Report
4. Recommend professional standards

• Kate Greene, Chair
• Chuck Bolton
• Janie Butts
• Alexandra Jaffe
• Larry Mead
• Shahdad Naghshpour
• Karen Thrash

Administration and Faculty Evaluations

1. Review the process for administrative evaluations
2. Communicate with Council of Chairs on criteria for chair evaluations
3. Administer annual evaluations of Chairs, Directors, and Deans

• Bill Powell, Chair
• Bob Coates
• Kimberley Davis
• Trellis Green
• Mark Miller

Archives (ad hoc)

1. Examine Senate records and forward appropriate documents to USM Archives

• Shellie Nielsen, Chair
• Karolyn Thompson

Athletic Liaison

1. Represent Faculty Senate at designated athletic functions
2. Work with Staff Council and Credit Union to coordinate efforts at the hospitality tent before home football games

• Trellis Green, Chair
• Dean Dunn
• Dan Surry

Awards

1. Select HEADWAE recipient
2. Select Excellence in Teaching and Service recipients
3. Select Excellence in Librarianship recipient
4. Select recipients for Faculty Memorial Fund Scholarship

• Linda Dysart Goff, Chair
• Cheryl Goggin
• Gerald Mattson
• Lillian Range

Benefits and Work Environment

1. Study salary compression issues
2. Review health insurance benefits
3. Make recommendations for additional benefits
4. Study equity issues
5. Review retirement benefits
6. Press for administrative approval of benefits resolutions passed by the Senate in recent years

• Mike Forster, Chair
• Mary Ann Adams
• Art Kaul
• Mary Lux
• Shellie Nielsen
• John Rachal

Constitution and Bylaws

1. Review documents for consistency
2. Recommend amendments if necessary

• Sherry Laughlin, Chair
• Ernest King
• Alexandra Jaffe

Elections

1. Conduct Senate elections
2. Determine representation for new departments

• Mary Dayne Gregg, Chair
• Art Kaul
• Steve Lohrenz
• Scott Magruder

Environment (ad hoc)

1. Make recommendations that will preserve and enhance the University's grounds and gardens

• Dick Conville, Chair
• Chuck Bolton
• Kimberley Davis
• Trellis Green
• Glenn Matlack
• Janet Nelson

Faculty Development

1. Collaborate with the Provost on Faculty Development issues
2. Recommend faculty development opportunities
3. Promote state-wide Faculty Senate Development workshop

• Norma Cuellar, Chair
• Darlys Alford
• Kimberley Davis
• Jan Drummond
• Susan Graham-Kresge
• Janet Nelson

Technology

1. Identify appropriate university committees and personnel who  have the responsibility for implementing the recommendations of the Commission Report as they relate to technology
2. Periodically meet with the appropriate committees and personnel and emphasize to them the important role that university faculty and the Faculty Senate, in particular, can play in implementing the recommendations of the Commission Report
3. Inform appropriate university committees and personnel of the actions identified as critical parts of the overall goal of ensuring that the recommendations of the Commission Report as they related to technology are carried out
4. Determine what specific actions appropriate university committees and personnel are planning to take to ensure that the recommendations of the Commission Report as they relate to technology are carried out
5. Monitor the activities of appropriate university committees and personnel who have responsibility for ensuring that the recommendations of the Commission Report as they relate to technology are carried out
6. Periodically report the findings of the Technology Committee in regard to the above items to the entire Faculty Senate
7. Recommend actions that the Faculty Senate might undertake to facilitate the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission Report as they relate to technology

• Dan Surry, Chair
• Delia Anderson
• Bob Bateman
• Steve Oshrin
• Bob Smith
• Karolyn Thompson

University Club

1. Study the feasibility of a University Club

• Kim Herzinger, Chair
• Michael Dearmey
• Mark Miller

Transportation Committee Liaison

1. Represent faculty parking concerns

• Bill Scarborough 

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