Minutes of the Steering Committee Meeting
2 June 2008
10:00 p.m.
208 Samford Hall
Approved

Attended by: Bob Locy, Kathryn Flynn, Dennis DeVries, Sue Barry, John Heilman, Linda Glaze (non-voting member)

Absent:  David Cicci, Gary Martin, Jim Bradley, Robert Gross, John Hung

-- The minutes of the April 28, Steering Committee meeting were approved as read.
-- Bob Locy distributed copies of the draft agenda for the 10 June 2008 University Senate meeting. Items on that agenda include four action items and 2 information items.

--Action items:
-- A resolution of appreciation for the outstanding service that Bob McGinnis, Vice President for Development, has given to the university will be presented by Bob Locy.
--Sue Barry will submit a partial list of Senate Committees to the Senate for their approval.  These are the committees that the Rules Committee has currently filled.  The rest will be presented in July.
--We discussed the draft version of the Consulting Policy as a possible item, but after some discussion it was decided to hold the policy until Lee Armstrong had a chance to review it.  Bob Locy commented that the A&P Assembly is also interested in a parallel policy for their members.  After further discussion, we decided that if by June 25th we can get the policy in good shape, the better procedure would be to post it on the web for review and comments.  Then we can forward the comments to Charlene LeBleu, Chair of the Welfare Committee, for further consideration, and then perhaps it will be ready for the September Senate Meeting.

Information Items:
--We discussed the Uncompensated Workload Policy that Gary Martin worked on, and we decided to hold this item until our first meeting in the fall.
--John Heilman agreed to report on the six overarching headings under which the 62 points of the Strategic Plan will be subsumed, i.e., the big ideas.  Bob believes that it is wise to keep the Senate engaged in the planning process as it moves forward.
--Linda Glaze talked briefly with the Steering Committee about the State Articulation and General Studies Program.  After our discussion it was agreed that Linda should present the State Articulation Agreement to the Senate as preparation for future discussions concerning transfer students.

The meeting adjourned at approximately 11:30 am.