TO: Members of the Senate

FROM: Secretary of the Senate

SUBJECT: Senate Meeting on September 3, 2009

DATE: August 26, 2009

The September meeting of the University Senate will be held on Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 4:05 p.m. in Room 7, Gamble Hall.

AGENDA

1) Announcements:

a. Senate Committee appointments made over the summer

2) Minutes of the previous meeting (5/7/09) and business arising from the minutes. These minutes may be viewed at: http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/registrar/senate/senindex.

3) Question period

CONSENT CALENDAR:

4) Annual Report of the Senate Committee on Committees, Jan Goodwin, Chair, Senate Committee on Committees

5) Annual Report of the Standing Committee on Faculty Rights, Jan Goodwin, Chair, Standing Committee on Faculty Rights

BUSINESS CALENDAR:

6) Candidates for Degrees in August, 2009, Suzanne Anderson, University Registrar

7) Proposed changes to the Honorary Degrees Committee procedures, Judy

DeMers, Past Chair, Honorary Degrees Committee

8) Slate of nominees for Senate officers, Jan Goodwin, Chair, Committee on Committees

9) Election of a Senate Vice Chair/Chair Elect

10) Election of a faculty representative to a two-year term on the Senate Executive Committee

11) Election of two Senate faculty members to a two-year term each on the Committee on Committees

12) Election of a student representative to the Senate Executive Committee

13) Senate orientation, Wendelin Hume, University Senate Chair

14) Curriculum Committee report, Liz Tyree, Chair, Curriculum Committee

15) Proposed changes to the Conflict of Interest Policy, Bradley Myers, Chair, Conflict of Interest/Scientific Misconduct Committee