Minutes of the Steering Committee Meeting
2 November 2009
3:30 PM, 206 Samford Hall
(by Dennis DeVries, Secretary)

In Attendance:  Kathryn Flynn, Mary Ellen Mazey, Claire Crutchley, Russ Muntifering, Linda Glaze (non-member, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies), Emmett Winn, Dennis DeVries, Bob Locy, Jim Wright, Larry Crowley, Bill Hames, Robin Jaffe (non-member, chair of the Calendars and Schedules Committee)

Absent:  David Shannon

--The meeting was called to order at 3:30 PM

--The minutes from the 19 October 2009 meeting were approved as posted on the web. 

--We then discussed the agenda for the 10 November 2009 Senate meeting, in an effort to finalize it. 

--Robin Jaffe provided an overview to the approach that was used to generate the proposed calendars. 

--We discussed whether to consider all of the calendars (for 3 full academic years plus summers) or just the 2010-2011 calendar to start with.  After some discussion, we concluded to bring forward all of the proposed calendars, with paper ballots ready at the Senate meeting for each one. 

--We then discussed whether to consider the academic year and the summer calendars separately or together.  We concluded to consider a full year’s calendar, including fall, spring, and summer semesters. 

--We then turned our discussion to the information items on the agenda. 

--Linda Glaze provided an update from the Core Curriculum and General Education Committee.  She will provide a handout that will go to the Senators. 

--We discussed whether the guidelines being developed for the Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions will be brought back to the Senate.  We discussed the Clinical and Research track positions, and concluded that we will bring this to the Senate for a vote.  We will consider the guidelines as an information item in November, and will plan to vote at our next Senate meeting. 

--The meeting was adjourned at 4:55 PM.