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AGENDA
Urbana-Champaign Senate
October 21, 2013, 2013
3:10 pm
Illini Union - Illini Room C

I.   Call to Order—Vice Provost Barbara Wilson
     
II.   Approval of MinutesSeptember 16, 2013
     
III.   Senate Executive Committee Report—Roy Campbell
     
IV.   Chancellor’s Remarks—Vice Provost Barbara Wilson
     
V.   Questions/Discussion
     
VI.   Consent Agenda
  If a senator wishes to move an item from the Consent Agenda to Proposals and have copies at the meeting, they must notify the Senate Office at least two business days before the meeting. Any senator can ask to have any item moved from the Consent Agenda to Proposals.
       
  EP.14.07 Proposal from the College of Business to Permanently Establish the Center for Business and Public Policy

Educational Policy
(G. Miller)

       
  EP.14.10 Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) and the Graduate College to Eliminate the Physiological and Molecular Plant Biology Concentration from the MS and PhD in Biology

Educational Policy
(G. Miller)

       
  EP.14.12 Proposal from Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to rename the Center for a Sustainable Environment as the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment

Educational Policy
(G. Miller)

       
VII.   Proposals
  CC.14.05 Nominations for Membership on Standing Committees of the Senate

Committee on Committees
(P. Kalita)

       
  SP.14.04 Proposed Revisions to the Bylaws, Part D.9 – Committee on Equal Opportunity and Inclusion

University Statutes and Senate Procedures
(W. Maher)

       
  SP.14.06 Proposed Revisions to the Statutes, Article XIII, Section 8 – to authorize the University Senates Conference to initiate revisions to the Statutes (First Reading)

University Statutes and Senate Procedures
(W. Maher)

       
  HD.14.02 Nominations for Honorary Degrees

Honorary Degrees
(J. Tyson)

       
VIII.   Current Benefits Issues (5 min) - John Kindt, Chair of Faculty and Academic Staff Benefits
     
IX.   Reports
  HE.14.01 FAC/ IBHE Report – September 20, 2013 A. Aminmansour
       
X.   New Business
     
XI.   Adjournment
     

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