Minutes of the Steering Committee Meeting
23 February, 2009
3:30 p.m. 208 Samford Hall
Submitted by
Dennis DeVries, Secretary-Elect

Attended: Bob Locy, David Cicci, Dennis DeVries, Kathryn Flynn, Claire Crutchley, Bill Hames, Mary Ellen Mazey, Steve Williams (non-voting visitor), Emmett Winn (non-voting visitor), Linda Glaze (non-voting visitor)

Absent: Sue Barry, Joe Molnar, Ruth Crocker

--The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m.

--We discussed the draft 3 March 2009 University Senate agenda. After Dr. Gogue makes his comments and Bob Locy makes his comments, we will have two action items and two information items on the agenda.

--The first action item will be a presentation of the revised grade adjustment policy (GAP) and the change to a 10 week deadline to withdraw from a class. Linda Glaze presented a summary of the policy to the Steering Committee and identified changes from the current policy, and the Steering Committee members discussed the policy.

--The other action item will be the presentation of a slate of names from the Rules Committee for the Faculty Research Committee.

--One of the information items to be presented will be a report from the Honors College Task Force. Emmet Winn and Steve Williams provided draft copies of the report and presented an overview of the 11 areas of focus and the 10 recommendations from the report of the task force. The Steering Committee discussed the presentation.

--The other information item on the Senate meeting agenda will be a presentation of the plans for tuition restructuring. This item will be presented by Fred Bobo at the Senate meeting.

--Bob provided the Steering Committee with an overview of the draft agenda for the 10 March 2009 General Faculty meeting.

--There was some general discussion about the current budget situation, and several items that will be considered in the coming months as the Senate leadership changes.