Senate calls for nominations for next President by 3/4, vote on 3/12.

Dear Senators and members of the UO Community,

The University Senate will be holding elections for Senate Vice President / President-Elect at its upcoming meeting on Wednesday, March 12th from 3:00 – 5:00 pm. We welcome all nominations for the this important office, including self nominations.

The Senate Bylaws define the Senate Vice President / President-Elect in section 4.2:

“The person elected Senate Vice President is automatically elected to the separate office of Senate President-Elect. … The responsibilities of the Senate Vice President shall include but are not limited to chairing Senate meetings when the Senate President temporarily steps down or is absent, chairing the Committee on Committees, being a voting member of the Senate Executive Committee and Faculty Advisory Council, and assisting the Senate President in governing the Senate as requested. The Senate Vice President shall assume the Senate Presidency when the Senate President vacates or resigns from the office unexpectedly…”

The person elected to the position of Vice President / President Elect will immediately assume that office and will automatically become Senate President at the final Senate meeting in late May of this year.

Any member of the Statutory Faculty is eligible to run for Senate Vice President. The Statutory Faculty is defined by the UO Constitution as “the body of professors consisting of the University President, tenure-related officers of instruction, career non-tenure-track officers of instruction, and officers of administration who are tenured in an academic department.”

If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else for Senate Vice President, please reply to Lisa Mick Shimizu, Senate Executive Coordinator, by March 4th, 2014 with the following information:

Name of nominee;

Nominee’s UO Department.

If you are nominating someone else, please confirm that they have agreed to serve.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or comments.

Sincerely,

Lisa

Lisa Mick Shimizu
Executive Coordinator
University of Oregon Senate
1226 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
[email protected]
541-346-4439

2/19/2014 Senate to vote on academic freedom, March 12:

The most recent draft of the Senate Ad Hoc Freedom Committee’s motion is here, President Gottfredson’s previous efforts to squash freedom are discussed here. Dave Hubin’s weird 2/18/2014 memo to the Senate, pretending he doesn’t understand the point of the last 6 months of Senate work and reports on academic freedom, is here.

The Senate will also address athletic subsidies, a report from IAC Chair Rob Illig (Law) on Jaqua Center athlete tutoring problems, Randy Geller’s policy to restrict faculty access to outside legal opinions, faculty input into review and selection of the NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative, the Blonigen report on RIGE and Espy, and election of next year’s Senate President.