Program of the Senate
- Improve communication, coordination and cooperation with UM administration
- Encourage administrators to communicate at least one Faculty Senate meeting
- The Chair and Chair Elect will attend at least one Executive Officer / Council of Deans meeting
- Participate in strategic plan implementation
- Participate in efforts to enhance the undergraduate and graduate experience
- Revise the evaluation of the administration process
- Improve collaboration with other campus governance groups.
- Apprise Faculty of Board of Regents initiatives and represent the Faculty to the Board of Regents and Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education
- Monitor Common Course Numbering, Dual Credit Programs, and the BOR reinventing and reforming efforts
- Review and revise Faculty Senate Articles and Bylaws.
- Establish a Faculty Senate procedural manual.
- Monitor Standing Committee efforts – UDWPA / Co-convening.
- Conduct Center Reviews and Interim Assessment of New Programs.
- Consider faculty governance involvement in undergraduate program review similar to graduate program review.
- Investigate Online Education strategic planning.
- Appropriate participation in strategic planning, budgeting, annual assessment, and accreditation follow-up and planning.
- Support undergraduate and graduate student success efforts including the initiative to waive teaching assistant and research assistants’ non-resident tuition.
