The Faculty Senate will vote Tuesday on a proposed steering committee to handle the issues arising from January’s Spring 2002 Faculty Forum.

The forum focused on faculty development and touched on topics like grant writing, research, time release and faculty retention. The senate has spent its meetings since the forum discussing how to act on the issues raised there, and suggested at the most recent meeting to create a committee to handle it.

The committee will be made up of one faculty representative each from the College of Arts and Humanities, the College of Sciences, the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Studies and the College of Education and Professional Studies and two from the library. The provost and one representative each form the Council of Chairs and the Council of Deans would also sit on the committee.

The senate will also receive updates on several administrator searches.

Blair Lord, vice president for academic affairs, will update the senate on the searches for three new deans. The final candidates for the positions of dean of the College of Sciences and the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences have interviewed on campus, and the final decisions are now in Lord’s hands.

The searches for a dean of the College of Education and Professional Studies and an assistant vice president for academic affairs for technology started later and have recently stopped taking applications.

The search for Eastern’s next president continues this week with three finalists visiting campus for interviews and tours.