CAS MEETING
AGENDA
Wednesday
15 April 2015
Alumni House
3:30 p.m.
I. Approval of the minutes from the March meeting
II. Update from the Core Advisory Council from Core Director Epstein
*Planned recommendations based on the Core model that emerged from the Task Force
III. Remarks from Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Williams
IV.
Comments and discussion regarding faculty governance, CAS leadership
and “leadership model” initiatives
outlined by SVPAA Babington (see appendix from CAS Chair)
V. Dean's Remarks
VI. Adjourn to Dean’s reception with refreshments
Please note:
the CAS will meet again on
April 29th for our annual celebration meeting (including the
presentation of the annual teaching award).
Appendix
Note from CAS Chair
CAS Colleagues:
Item four (IV) on our agenda for the Apri 14 meeting is a discussion
regarding CAS leadership and CAS “leadership model” initiatives
outlined by SVPAA Babington. In advance of that discussion, I
have been asked to provide to faculty relevant materials from existing
governance documents. Here are links to the College of Arts and Sciences Governance Document and the Faculty Handbook.
Two selections that seem particularly relevant are excerpted
below. Minutes from the previous CAS meeting and the agenda are
available on the CAS Faculty website.
I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday afternoon,
Bob Epstein
Faculty Chair, College of Arts & Sciences
From the CAS Governance Document:
3.5.1.4 Arts and Sciences Planning Committee
Membership
The Arts and Sciences Planning
Committee consists of six members of the College faculty, including the
Chairperson and Secretary ex officio, with at least one each from the
Humanities, the Natural Sciences/Mathematics, and the Behavioral and
Social Sciences. At least one member should have substantial
involvement in interdisciplinary programs (for example, has served,
within the past three years, as a director of an interdisciplinary
program or on one or more interdisciplinary program steering
committees).
No more than two members shall be
from any one department; ideally the membership should be drawn from 6
different departments. The four non-ex officio members are elected by
the College of Arts and Sciences to staggered two-year terms. The Dean
of the College shall serve ex officio and chairs the meetings of the
committee. All 7 members shall have full voting privileges.
[Revised and approved 6/4/09]
The charge of this committee is
to advise the Dean and to help identify the long-range goals of the
College of Arts and Sciences, and to plan for their implementation.
The committee should meet at
least twice each semester and report regularly to the Arts and Sciences
faculty on its forming of proposed goals and on the proposed strategies
for the pursuit of those goals.
From the Faculty Handbook (p. 20):
3. Governance
Each School's faculty shall
determine its own structure of governance, subject to the approval of
the University President. The faculty of a School or the University
President may propose amendments to a School's governance document. All
amendments must be accepted by both the University President and the
faculty of the School in question. Faculty approval of the initial
governance documents and of subsequent amendments is obtained by a
two-thirds vote of those present and voting at a regularly scheduled
meeting of the faculty of the School in question.
Arts & Sciences Planning Committee
Ex officio
Jim Simon, Dean
Bob Epstein, Chair of CAS (2016)
Scott Lacy, Secretary of CAS (2015)
Elected
Steve Bayne, Humanities (2016)
Qin Zhang, Behavioral & Social Sciences (2016)
Marti LoMonaco, Interdisciplinary Programs (2015)
Anita Fernandez, Natural Sciences & Mathematics (2015)
(Associate Deans Gudelunas, Perkus, and Walker also attend meetings)