The Faculty Senate will continue to discuss the function of the Council on University Planning and Budget when it resumes meeting Tuesday.

Before Thanksgiving Break, senate members voiced concerns about a canceled CUPB meeting, which Senate Chair Anne Zahlan deemed “odd.”

Zahlan, who represents the Faculty Senate on the CUPB, said a lot of gossip and speculation surfaced about the canceled meeting on Nov. 15.

The CUPB is a body that is used to rank university priorities and ask representatives from the entire campus how to allocate money to those priorities, said David Carpenter, professor of English.

The CUPB’s faculty representation has dwindled during the years, Zahlan said. The council’s bylaws also call for monthly meetings, but there was no make-up date scheduled for November. The next CUPB meeting is set for Dec. 13.

Old business to be discussed at the Faculty Senate meeting includes computer privacy policies, administrative search procedures and a Student Senate proposal on grade appeals procedures.

At the last meeting, the senate heard a draft resolution from John Kilgore, English professor, asking for a clearly-stated computer privacy policy that protects employees from any infiltration of assigned computers and private communications.

Zahlan previously said the senate will create a subcommittee on computer privacy to draft a final policy resolution.

The Student Senate passed a resolution asking for further student involvement in grade appeals procedures Nov. 20, and the Faculty Senate will vote on it next.

Another item on the Faculty Senate’s agenda for Tuesday involves planning for a spring faculty forum.

Zahlan said the forum, scheduled from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on

Jan. 28 in the University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, is open to all faculty members to discuss concerns.

Allocation and distribution of resources among university areas and units and revising senate bylaws are among other new business items the Faculty Senate will discuss.

The Faculty Senate meets at 2 p.m. every Tuesday in Booth Library Conference Room 4440.