Highlights of the Sept 25, 2000, meeting of the College Park Senate

President Mote's Annual State of the Campus Address; complete text can be found at: www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/Departments/PRES/speech_state00.html

The Senate Faculty Affairs Committee recommended two changes to APT Policy: (i) to insert the following sentence to section IV, part C, para 1 of the APT Policy: "An auxiliary panel may be created to make the recommendations on new appointments, which must be considered outside the academic year if a sufficient number of members of the regular committee are not available. Such a balanced auxiliary panel shall be drawn from the present and recent members of the campus-level review committee. When an appeal of an adverse decision results in a second hearing at the campus level, a similarly balanced panel shall be formed from recent members of the campus-level review committee who have not partipated previously in the case." (ii) to amend the last para of Section IV to read as follows: "When the President has completed his or her review of the tenure or promotion cases in a given academic year, the list of members of the unit, college, and campus committees whose terms hae ended shall be made public." Both motions passed.

It was moved, and approved, that a review of Dining Service policies, esp in regard to student fees, would be forwarded to the Senate Executive Committee for consideration. It was pointed out that there is a $193 service charge added to every meal plan offered to students.

Bonnie Dorr & Don Perlis
Senators, Department of Computer Science