1. Call to order
2. Approval of minutes: Fall 1997 Meeting of the University Faculty (Minutes are on the Senate Web Page)
3. Nomination and Election of Officers: John Grover
4. President's Address to the Faculty: William V. Muse
5. Announcements
a. Provost's Office: Paul F. Parks
b. Faculty Chair: Gary Swanson
6. Committee Reports
a. Faculty Welfare Committee: Carl D. Hudson
7. Old Business
a. Presentation of Senate Resolution to Paul F.Parks
8. Farewell Address by Outgoing Chair: Gary Swanson
9. New Business
a. Presentation of the A.A.U.P. Academic Freedom Award: Jo Heath
b. Announcement of Election Results: Glenn Howze
10. Adjournment
Rex Gandy Professor, Department of PhysicsJo Heath Professor, Department of Mathematics
Marcia Boosinger Librarian III, LibraryRalph Zee Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
New officers of the Auburn University Faculty will be elected at the Spring meeting of the University Faculty on April 14, 1998, 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.
Any University Faculty member who cannot attend the University Faculty meeting on April 14 because of official University business should send a written request for an absentee ballot to:
Jennie Raymond, Secretary
Dept. Of Management
401 College of Business
Campus
FAX: 844-5159
E-mail: jraymond@business.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 Jennie Raymond NO LATER THAN April 9, 1998.
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.