Senator Flahive was unable to attend, so Chair Reynolds gave Flahive's report. There are still candidate vacancies that need to be filled before Senate elections. Brite has three of its positions open and no one has volunteered to run. Education has one opening, but no one is running. Nursing has one opening with one person running.
Business has two openings, but only one person running.
Senators need to encourage their colleagues to run for the Senate. Report from Budget and Finance Committee , by Senator Vigeland. He noted that the committee changed its method of operation this year. They met in the fall with Chancellor Ferrari and expressed interest in having more faculty input in the budget process. They suggested that they ought to work directly with Provost Koehler to support the academic mission of university.