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Agenda of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty Assembly

The Faculty Assembly will meet from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, February 19, in 40 Schaeffer Hall.

Please sign one of the attendance sheets available at the door.

1. Discussion/amendment/approval of the minutes of the December 11, 2002 meeting of the Faculty Assembly.

2. Announcement. Nick Colangelo, chair of the Board in Control of Athletics, and Mark Schantz, general counsel and president's representative on the board, will answer questions at our April 16 meeting. Faculty having questions they wish answered about athletics at Iowa are urged to e-mail their questions to Douglas Jones (jones@cs.uiowa.edu), in order to give Colangelo and Schantz time to research the issues prior to the meeting.

3. University sexual harassment/consensual relations policy. Charlotte Westerhaus, assistant to the president and director of affirmative action, will address the Assembly on the University's new policy and answer members' questions.

4. Chautauqua. Member Kim Marra will update the Assembly on plans for the February 26 campus-wide Chautauqua on public higher education.

5. Reform of the College's voting procedures. The Executive Committee has asked the Assembly to discuss possible reform of the College's voting procedures, particularly the ranked preference system used to nominate and elect the Executive Committee, the Educational Policy Committee, and the CLAS representatives to the Graduate Council. The current voting procedures are documented in Article IV of the Handbook for CLAS Faculty.

6. Re-examination of the Faculty Assembly's role. The Executive Committee has asked the Assembly to re-examine its function in faculty governance and consider whether: its charter should changed to give it a more compelling function in the College, its membership should be downsized or selected in some other way, or it should be disbanded.

7. Proposed review procedures for the College and the dean. Continued discussion of the Executive Committee's proposed amendments [pdf] to the College's Manual of Procedure regarding review procedures for the College and the dean.

Questions about Faculty Assembly can be directed to Cheryl Walsh (353-2639).