The University
Senate of
PROPOSAL 19-06
(Voting
Units: Entire Senate)
TIMING OF
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Background:
The
Senate executive committee has discussed extensively how to increase the
productivity of Senate committees. One major problem is that committees are not
formed until fall and often take some time to become productive. By collecting
desired committee assignments in the spring when nearly all Senators are at
Tech and accessible and approving the preliminary list of committee assignments
at the last meeting of the Senate in the spring, the executive committee
believes that Senate committees would be ready to act more rapidly in the fall.
The
proposed revision of by-law C.6 is presented now to show the intent of the
executive committee, which would like to try an experiment of earlier
assignments for the 2006-2007 committees, if this experiment be agreeable to
the Senate. This experiment can be done
under the existing by-law since the last meeting of the Senate in the spring
semester occurs before the first meeting in the fall. If this experiment is
done and proves successful, the by-law revision below would then be presented
for a vote.
Proposal:
Section
C.6 of the by-laws should be revised as follows where square brackets [...]
mark deletions and italics mark
insertion.
6. Normally, the Senate officers and
officers-elect will draft a preliminary list of committee
assignments before the [first meeting] last
meeting of the Senate in the [fall term] spring semester.
Introduced in University Senate: 1 February 2006
Adopted on a Trial Basis: 1 February 2006