Senate Bill 10-11-25
| Bill ID: | 10-11-25 |
| Name: | Reapportionment of the Faculty & Undergraduate Senators of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) |
| Proposed: | 10/26/2010 |
| Sponsor: | The Senate Office |
| Proposal: | In light of the recent reassignment of CLFS to CMPS and subsequent renaming to CMNS, it is now necessary to check the total population of faculty and undergraduates to determine whether reapportionment is necessary. |
| Active? | No |
Status
| Status: | Completed |
| Completed On: | 12/08/2010 |
History
| Status: | Complete |
| Reviewer: | Dean Stephen Halperin |
| Received: | 2010-12-07 |
| Decision: | Dean Halperin received and reviewed the letter. |
| Actions: | A letter from Senate Chair Linda Mabbs was sent to Dean Halperin explaining the CMNS reapportionment. The letter asked Dean Halperin to sub-apportion the 22 faculty Senate seats amongst the units in the College. |
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| Status: | Complete |
| Reviewer: | Senate |
| Received: | 2010-12-01 |
| Decision Date: | 2010-12-08 |
| Decision: | The Senate reviewed the report as an informational item. |
| Next Step: | Dean Halperin Review |
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| Status: | Complete |
| Reviewer: | Senate Executive Committee (SEC) |
| Received: | 2010-11-10 |
| Decision Date: | 2010-11-17 |
| Decision: | The SEC voted to place the report on the December 8, 2010 Senate meeting agenda as an informational item. |
| Actions: | The SEC discussed the reapportionment at is November 17, 2010, meeting and voted to send the report to the Senate as an informational item. |
| Next Step: | Senate Review |
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| Status: | Complete |
| Reviewer: | Elections, Representation, & Governance (ERG) Committee |
| Received: | 2010-10-27 |
| Decision Date: | 2010-11-03 |
| Decision: | The ERG Committee voted to forward its recommendations to the SEC for consideration. |
| Actions: | The ERG committee met on November 3, 2010 and used the ratio stipulated in the Senate Plan of Organization of 17 to 1 for faculty and 1000 to 1 for undergraduate students to calculate the apportionment of seats. After reviewing the data received from the Office of Institutional Research Planning & Assessment (IRPA), which showed the faculty having a total number of 374 (according to the above definition) and the undergraduate students having a total number of 3,879 (for current enrollment). The ERG Committee recommends that the number tenure/tenure-track faculty senate seats for CMNS be increased to 22 in order to account for the slight change in the ratio. The ERG Committee also recommends that the undergraduate student senate seats for CMNS be increased to 4 in order to account for a similar fluctuation. |
| Next Step: | SEC review |
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| Status: | Complete |
| Reviewer: | Senate Executive Committee (SEC) |
| Received: | 2010-10-27 |
| Decision Date: | 2010-10-27 |
| Decision: | The SEC voted to charge the ERG Committee with review of the proposal. |
| Actions: | Due to the integration of CLFS and CMPS into CMNS, a reapportionment of CMNS Faculty and Undergraduate Senators was necessary to ensure accurate representation. The SEC discussed this issue at is October 27, 2010, meeting and voted to charge the ERG Committee with its review. |
| Next Step: | ERG Committe Review |