RE: President’s Monthly Report to Policy Committee (11/7/18 – 12/11/18)
Statute revisions: The revisions have been approved by the three senates and the Senates Council. They were transmitted to the president on December 5, 2016. President Killeen and Executive VP Wilson indicated that they are actively pursuing the various details necessary for a major revision effort. Next BoT meetings are on:
Jan 17, 2019 Chicago
Mar 14, 2019 Urbana
May 16, 2019 Springfield
July 24-25, 2019 Chicago
We have been assured of notification prior of transmittal to BoT of the president’s recommendations. Nothing has yet been transmitted. Barbara Wilson has indicated that a general “clean up” of the statute language is in progress.
Executive Committee and Trustees: The Executive Committee and Trustee meeting scheduled for 9/27/18 was cancelled by the trustees at the last minute. It will be rescheduled in the near future.
PC meetings with president: The meeting with President Killeen and Executive VP Wilson and PC members is being rescheduled. You have received form Bill Williamson a list of possible dates. Please respond this week.
Legislative attacks on tenure, course content, free speech and science: Bob Parker continues to track and monitor news items on these important subjects.
Shared governance questionnaire: Hadi Esfahani and his committee have prepared a questionnaire to be sent to the faculty. It has been transmitted to the provost and I asked him to have his office email it to the faculty. See also Item 2 above. We may wish to consider this topic and responses for a future special or annual chapter meeting.
Sexual harassment: The reported number of such campus and near campus incidents has increased. I received an invitation from the provost to attend last Monday’s open meeting on campus/system and Title IX guidelines. Since I could not attend as I am teaching a two-hour grad class at that time, Bruce Rosenstock kindly substituted for me. He will report at the December 12 PC meeting. I suggest that our PC monitor the proper and equitable disposition of such occurrences and of the guidelines. Also, this could also be a topic for a membership meeting or the annual meeting.
Meeting with vice-provost Bernhard: I have received an invitation to the executive committee to meet with him on Thursday, December 13, 2018. The subject of the meeting is: “Discuss some issues of mutual interest, including your proposed faculty survey, the campus’s plans for a task force on sexual misconduct, and the annual P&T information meeting.”
