REGULAR MEETING OF THE FACULTY SENATE

The University of Oklahoma (Norman campus)

October 8, 2012, 3:30 p.m., Jacobson Faculty Hall 102

AGENDA

1. Approval of the Senate Journal for the regular session of September 10, 2012.

2. Announcements:

A. The following faculty members were recently elected to the Faculty Senate:

Mark Lucas (Music), completing the 2012-15 term of Elizabeth Avery (Music) and representing the College of Fine Arts

Laurel Smith (Geography & Environmental Sustainability), completing the 2012-15 term of Bret Wallach (Geography & Environmental Sustainability) and representing the College of Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences

B. The following faculty will serve on the 2012-13 Academic Program Review Committee: Eve Bannet (English), James Martin (Educational Psychology), Andrew Miller (Mathematics), and Ronald Peters (Political Science). The panel also will include Associate Dean Barry Weaver (College of Earth & Energy), Associate Dean Martha Banz (Liberal Studies), and Graduate Council representative Michael Kent (Journalism & Mass Communication). The units to be reviewed are Classics & Letters, Communication, Economics, History, History of Science, Philosophy, and Law.

C. Sonya Fallgatter, who has been the administrative coordinator of the Faculty Senate for 28 years, will retire January 1, 2013. The retirement reception for Ms. Fallgatter will be Friday, November 30, in Beaird Lounge from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Her replacement is Stacey Bedgood, who started training with Ms. Fallgatter on October 1. Ms. Bedgood previously worked at OU in the offices of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment and the Center for Independent and Distance Learning.

3. Remarks by Ghislain d’Humieres, director of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

4. Discussion of open-access journals by University Libraries Dean Rick Luce.

5. Remarks concerning benefits by Human Resources Director Julius Hilburn and Assistant Director Nick Kelly.

6. Action Items:

A. Approval of the Faculty Senate Committee on Committees’ nominations to fill vacancies on university and campus councils, committees and boards and nominations for Faculty Senate standing committees (attached). Additional nominations may be made from the floor if the consent of the nominee has been secured.

B. Approval of the proposal to add the appeals of tobacco violations to the charge of the Parking Violations Appeals Committee (attached).

7. Senate Chair's Report.

8. Issues for 2012-13.

9. New business (any matter not known about or that could not have been reasonably foreseen prior to the time the agenda was prepared).