Highlights of the Sep 19, 2002, meeting of the College Park Senate

• Newly appointed chairs and members of the standing committees for 2002-2003 were approved.

• Unanimously moved and approved: Revision of the PCC Committee Specifications in the Senate Bylaws adding language to state that recommendations from the PCC are not subject to amendment on the Senate floor. (An ammendment to this revision was moved and approved, with dissent, adding the language "Unless a detailed objection ... has been filed with the Senate ... at least 48 hours prior to the meeting.")

• Unanimously moved and approved: Proposal to establish a standard for listing emeritus faculty in university documents, publications, and web sites.

• Special Order of the Day: President Mote's Annual State of the Campus address. For details of the Sept 10th version of this speech, click here. Several faculty and departments received special recognition by President Mote, including HCIL (Allison Druin was mentioned) for work on the Children's Large Scale Digital Archive, UMIACS for receiving 7 NSF awards, the Linguistic department for its success in hiring Howard Lasnik, computational psychology for successful hiring, and scientific computing---newly housed in CSIC---for its recruitment of a new director. President Mote stressed that momentum is the key as we continue to work at the ``edges.'' He enumerated several of our 2001-2002 successes including a 14% increase in research funds our previous record-breaking year, signicant success at fundrasing on campus, high rankings in numerous departments, naming of an asteroid after Dr. Richardson in astronomy, and ``Maryland Newsline'' (ranked #1 in student-run news broadcasting, after only a year of operation). Final message of the day: Despite difficult times (9/11, tornado, fiscal uncertainty), progress can be made if we work together as a team, focusing on the continuation an environment for good research, beautification of our campus, diversity, and efforts in recruitment of top researchers and leaders.

Bonnie Dorr & Don Perlis
Senators, Department of Computer Science