1 October 2003

Dear Member of Senate:

I advise you that a meeting of the Senate of Acadia University will occur at 4:00 p.m.., Tuesday,
14 October 2003 in Room 132 of the Beveridge Arts Centre.  The AGENDA follows:

1)  Minutes of the Meeting of  8 September 2003

2) Announcements and  Communications

3) Approval of List of Graduates for October 2003 (034-14-REG)
 
4) Business Arising from the Minutes
 a) By-Laws Committee - Senate Faculty Development Committee Removal as per notice of motion in previous minutes   (034-08-LAW)
 b) By-Laws Committee - Academic Integrity Committee Part I as per notice of motion in previous minutes (034-09-LAW)
 c) By-Laws Committee - Academic Integrity Committee Part II as per notice of motion in previous minutes (034-10-LAW)
 d) University Teaching Complement Committee - Request of appeal from Department of Languages and Literatures as per notice of motion in previous minutes (034-11-ART), and revision (034-13-ART)*

5) New Business
 a) University President - Guidelines for the Appointment and Review of Senior Academic Officers (034-12-PRE) *
 
6) Other Business
 
Yours sincerely,
 
 

Rosemary Jotcham
Acting Registrar and Secretary of Acadia University Senate

* Material Attached

From Gary Ness
Chairperson
Teaching Complement Committee
 

It would appear that the following motion - which will replace the previous Notice of Motion as recorded in the September 2003 minutes of Senate, will serve our purpose:
 
That Senate immediately conducts a hearing in the matter of the appeal of the Department of Languages and Literatures under Article 20.00 of the Tenth Collective Agreement and that Senate uses a format for the hearing that is analogous to the process for the appeal hearing conducted by the Teaching Complement Committee, which is found in Article 20.04 and 20.05 of the 10th Collective Agreement.
 
The intent is that the first part of the motion ensures Senate will act to hear the matter immediately and the latter part of the motion should ensure that the process used is consistent with the Collective Agreement's guidance to the Teaching Complement Committee.
 

15 September 2003
 

 
To:   Members of the Board of Governors
        Acadia University

Dear Colleagues:

Following consultation with the Deans, members of Faculty and Senate, I will move or cause to be moved, the following motion at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors scheduled to be held on Saturday, 25 October 2003:

That, the document “Guidelines for the Appointment and Review of Senior Academic Officers” be amended as follows:

Page 6, composition of search committee for Vice-President Academic:

(d) three members of Faculty, one from each of the three professorial ranks elected by Faculty;

to become

(d) three tenured members of Faculty, one from each of the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science and the Faculty of Professional Studies, each elected by their own Faculty;”

Page 8, composition of search committee for President:

(c) three members of Faculty, one from each of the three professorial ranks elected by Faculty;

to become

(c) three tenured members of Faculty, one from each of the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science and the Faculty of Professional Studies, each elected by their own Faculty;”

Add:

(h) a Dean appointed by the Board.

Yours sincerely,

Gail Dinter-Gottlieb, Ph.D.
President and Vice-Chancellor