Section VI

UNIVERSITY SENATE STANDING COMMITTEES

 

A.	Executive Committee
	1.	Membership
		a.	The President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Senate.
		b.	The chairpersons of the Academic Affairs Committee, the Academic Planning Committee, the Administrative Affairs and Elections Committee, and the Student Affairs and Admissions Committee.
		c.	The immediate past President of the Senate at his/her option.
		d.	The President of the Senate shall be the chairperson of the Executive Committee.
		e.	Interim appointments from the membership of the Senate will be made by the committee, subject to approval of the Senate, to replace members of the Executive Committee. In the event both the President and Vice President of the Senate are unavailable, the committee will elect one of its regular members as temporary chairperson.
	2.	Duties
		a.	To serve as a channel through which matters can be brought to the attention of the Senate or its committees.
		b.	To recommend faculty appointments to committees in response to requests by other segments of the University community.
		c.	To propose the creation of ad hoc committees as needed and to recommend membership of such committees to the Senate. No ad hoc committee shall be formed that in anyway preempts or significantly overlaps an existing committee of the Senate. Any ad hoc committee shall inform the Senate about matters that it considers.
		d.	To monitor the operations of the standing and ad hoc Senate committees, and to ensure the continuity of these committees.
		e.	To conduct a bi-annual review of the status and operations of all ad hoc committees.
		f.	To transact such business as may be referred to it by the Senate.
		g.	To prepare the agenda for meetings of the Senate.
		h.	To act for the Senate on urgent matters which require attention before the next meeting of the Senate. Such actions shall be reported to the Senate at its next meeting.
		i.	To appoint a qualified person to serve as the Senate webmaster for a period of two years. The webmaster will be responsible for maintaining and improving the Senate website, and for posting, in a timely manner, Senate documents and other information as specified or approved by the President or the Senate Executive Committee. The webmaster is not, by virtue of this position, an officer or a member of the Senate.
	3.	Meetings: the Executive Committee will meet a minimum of once every two weeks during each semester.