AGENDA

SPRING MEETING OF THE

AUBURN UNIVERSITY FACULTY

April 8, 1997

3:10 p.m.

Broun Hall Auditorium

1. Call to order

2. Approval of minutes: Fall 1996 Meeting of the University Faculty

3. Nomination and Election of Officers: Kent T. Fields

4. President's Address to the Faculty: William V. Muse

5. Announcements

a. Provost's Office: Paul F. Parks

b. Faculty Chair: John H. Grover

6. Committee Reports

Faculty Welfare Committee: Arlie Powell

7. Old Business

8. Farewell Address by Outgoing Chair: John H. Grover

9. New Business

a. Presentation of the A.A.U.P. Academic Freedom Award: Sonny Dawsey

b. Announcement of Election Results: Gary Swanson

10. Adjournment

NOMINEES FOR UNIVERSITY FACULTY OFFICERS (1997-98)

Chair-elect: Glenn Howze Professor, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

T. Gilmour Reeve Titled Professor, Health and Human Performance

Secretary-elect: Donald Buxton Professor, Anatomy and Histology

Jean Olds Weese Associate Professor, Nutrition and Food Science

ABSENTEE VOTING FOR UNIVERSITY FACULTY OFFICERS

New officers of the Auburn University Faculty will be elected at the Spring meeting of the University Faculty on April 8, 1997, at 3:10 p.m. in Brown Hall Auditorium. The Faculty Handbook (Page 2:2) provides for absentee voting by members of the University Faculty who cannot attend the meeting because of a conflict with a scheduled class or other required and official University activities:

"Requests for permission to vote by absentee ballot must be submitted in writing to the Secretary of the University Faculty ... Such requests must be documented by proper justification for the member's inability to attend the Spring meeting."

The Handbook authorizes the Secretary to deny a request for absentee ballot if it is not adequately justified; it also provides a procedure through which such denial can be appealed.

Procedure for Absentee Voting:

Any University Faculty member who cannot attend the University Faculty meeting on April 8 because of official University business should send a written request for an absentee ballot to:

Barb Struempler, Secretary

207 Duncan Hall

Campus

FAX: 844-5354

E-mail: bstruemp@acesag.auburn.edu

The request must contain adequate justifications for absentee voting ( e.g., copy of class roll, conference program, or out-or-town commitment showing evidence of conflict). Requests lacking such justification may be denied according to provisions of the Faculty Handbook. Written request should be received by Barb Struempler NO LATER THAN April 2, 1997.

Absentee ballots are considered secret ballots and will be counted at the same time as ballots cast at the meeting. In the event that a nomination for a particular office is made from the floor at the meeting, the Faculty Handbook stipulates that absentee ballots cast for that office cannot be included in the total count.