Faculty Senate looks at solutions with shared governance, think tank
Brooke Schwartz, News Editor
October 16, 2018
The Faculty Senate had a full agenda Tuesday, which included looking at resolutions for shared governance, an updated 360 review process for administrators and a university think tank. The shared governance discussion, which began in earnest at a senate meeting on Jan. 23, 2018, was started because of c...
CAA to discuss shared governance
Staff Report
October 3, 2018
The Council on Academic Affairs will be discussing shared governance and acting on one revised program at their Oct. 4 meeting at 2 p.m. in Room 4440 of Booth library. The shared governance discussion was tabled in Faculty Senate until the senate’s Oct. 16 meeting. Todd Bruns, Faculty Senate chair ...
CAA expresses shock, concerns with shared governance proposal
Brooke Schwartz, News Editor
September 20, 2018
While the end of shared governance discussions may have seemed over to some following the conclusion of the Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday, members of the Council on Academic Affairs were in for a surprise at their meeting Sept. 20. The senate ended their meeting with Todd Bruns, senate chair and scholarly communication librarian and institutional repository director, heading off to write a more ...
CAA to discuss electronic course proposal forms
Brooke Schwartz, News Editor
September 19, 2018
The Council on Academic Affairs will meet at 2 p.m. on Thursday in the Edgar Room of Booth Library. The council will get an update about their electronic course proposal form, which was re-discussed at a meeting last semester on April 26, 2018. Nathan Atkinson, a web developer in the Center for Acade...
Faculty Senate sets January as end date for resolution on shared governance
Brooke Schwartz, News Editor
September 18, 2018
After a year of discussion, the question of what to do about the Higher Learning Commission’s concerns with Eastern’s organizational communication is coming to a potential end. Many solutions and ideas have been discussed, and at Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, an official end date for th...
Faculty Senate discusses allowing Unit B faculty to serve in senate
Brooke Schwartz, News Editor
September 4, 2018
The Faculty Senate discussed the role Unit B faculty should, or are able to, play on the senate, as well as shared governance and an annual lecture series at its meeting Tuesday. Annually contracted faculty, a part of the overall Unit B faculty, make up from one-third to one-fourth of almost every dep...
Faculty Senate discusses shared governance
Brooke Schwartz, Administration Reporter
April 17, 2018
A proposal for a new shared governance plan presented at the latest Faculty Senate meeting would keep the number of senators the same but include senators on other campus committees. Vice chair Jeff Stowell, a psychology professor, originally showed a shared governance plan, which included a much...
Faculty Senate to discuss shared governance model on Tuesday
Staff Report
April 16, 2018
The Faculty Senate has several communications on its agenda, including a shared governance model proposal, for its meeting Tuesday. The meeting is set to take place at 2 p.m. Tuesday in room 4440 of Booth Library. A PDF document on the university’s realignment is also on the agenda. At the...
