Committee on Students and Educational Policy interim report will be heard at the February 4 meeting. Academic Planning and Budget Committee and Capital Council. Past Faculty Senate Chair Peter Kuriloff reported there had been one Capital Council meeting since the last SEC meeting and discussion was around a new site for another chilled water plant. He had again expressed concern to the administration about Academic Planning and Budget Committee meetings being seminars and not a good use of the committee members. This week the topics were the Center for Technology Transfer and strategic goal number two to aggressively seek research opportunities.
Funding is up and the future looks bright.
Discussion with SEC appointees to the Provost Search Committee. SEC members presented their views on criteria for a provost. A search committee member conveyed a collegue's view that it is time to rethink the position of provost and make it vice president for academic affairs. A SEC member said this was an interesting question since the enterprise is growing. SEC's consensus was that the provost should be chief academic officer and an equal partner with the president, with appropriate funding to carry out the office.