D R A K E U N I V E R S I T Y
FACULTY SENATE MEETING AGENDA
The Drake University Faculty Senate will meet in regular session
March 17 in Levitt Hall, Old Main at 3:30 p.m.

AGENDA

1. Call to Order

2. Roll Call

3. Approval of February 2004 minutes

4. Report from President Maxwell

5. Report from Provost Troyer

6. Report from President Reincke

Committee Reports ø

7. Unfinished Business

Discussion item from Student Senate regarding Commencement Attire

Resolved . That it is the sense of Student Senate that the governing bodies which control Commencement procedures allow students graduating with Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude, or Magna Cum Laude honors be allowed to wear cords or other material indications of those honors with their Commencement regalia.

8. New Business

a) Motion to amend the Academic Charter Section II, Academic Rank, paragraphs D & E

Secretary's note: Further language adjustments to the same section of the Academic Charter as presented to the Senate in January 2004

b) Motion to discontinue the

Information Resource Policies and Issues Committee

IRPI is responsible for recommending academic information resource policy for the University. The Committee is concerned with, but not necessarily confined to, library and computer services as well as the development and use of an appropriate information and technology infrastructure for the University. The membership shall consist of three faculty, two administrative users, one library representative, a dean, two students and one person serving ex-officio from the computing center.

AND create the Instructional Technology Policy Committee

This Faculty Senate committee will work on strategic planning for instructional technology. It would recommend policies on instructional technology to the Faculty Senate, and to other groups (Deans' Council, SAC, etc) and individuals (Cowles/Law Librarians, Chief Information Officer (CIO)) when appropriate. It would work to foster close ties between the Center for Digital Technology and Learning, the Libraries, the Drake Telemedia Center (DTC), the school/college technology committees and the Office of Information Technology (OIT). The committee would oversee the implementation of the recommendations of the Instructional Technology Task Force, and update those recommendations as needed.

Due to the rate of change in the Information Technology area and the implementation of projects usually over the summer, members will need to be willing to work on a year-round basis.

The Faculty Senate Executive Committee shall appoint at least four faculty to serve two year staggered terms. The principle of broad representation shall be honored. The Dean of Cowles Library, the Director of the Center for Digital Technology and Learning, the CIO and the Director of the DTC will serve on the committee.

c) Report from University Benefits Committee

9. Adjournment