Send minutes out over e-mail after approved. Ask Deans to put Faculty Senate as a standing item on college agendas. Caution in use of email to conduct Senate business. Think of email as lobbying instrument. Submission of a petition to request postponement of ratification of Constitution.
Faculty are concerned about content of Constitution and want to be involved in amendment process.
Fate of P. and D. draft document, work of 1998 summer subcommittee. Senate agreed to put the P. and T. document on its December agenda. President Cargol told the Senate that he believes doctorates are the appropriate terminal degree. He does not believe that an MFA is an appropriate terminal degree for studio art. The Senate needs its P. and T. Committee to look at the issue of Ph.D. vs. appropriate terminal degrees.