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March 8, 2005

Minutes of the Faculty Senate Steering Committee Meeting

Present: Drs. Dana Bradziunas, Sam Cukierman,  Kim Kenton,  John McNulty, and Nancy Muma.

Excused: Bill Cannon, Sean Cahill, John Goodwin, Phong, Sean Cahill, and Michael Schneck.

 

Approved the minutes from the December and January meetings of the Steering Committee.

 Website

Sam Cukierman is trying to get a “hits” counter for the website but has run into problems.

The Serotonin Related Disorders Research Group will write up a section for the Featured Faculty section of the website.

Paul Herring and Jack Lee were asked and will be encouraged and reminded to write for the Invited commentary and New and views sections of the website respectively.

Faculty Meetings

Nancy Muma will speak with Richard Kennedy about the upcoming meeting that will feature him.

Dana Bradziunas will speak with Tom Kelly about posting a letter from Tom to Tony Castro describing the retirement health benefits and the upcoming meeting that will feature him as the main speaker.

The Faculty meeting featuring Myles Sheehan will be scheduled in August to include new faculty and occur after the start of new classes.

Faculty Handbook

Suggestions for revisions to the Faculty Handbook were discussed. We agreed that the linkage of tenure to compensation should be included and that the discussion of rescheduling of classes and classrooms should be removed since it is not pertinent to the Medical Center.

FIS

We discussed the problem that there are numerous errors in FIS and the potential conflicts with percent effort reported on FIS and effort reporting to NIH. Kim Kenton will contact Dr. Kennedy on behalf of the Steering Committee to discuss these problems.

Elections

Elections for new members of the Steering Committee will be held in May. The terms for the secretary, 1 basic science faculty representative and 1 clinical faculty representative are up for election this year.

BSI

Lothar Blatter was elected as chair of the BSI Advisory Committee at the first meeting of the committee. The Steering Committee will contact Dr. Kennedy for his suggestions for changes to the BSI plan.

Minutes

Minutes Submitted by Nancy Muma