Date of Notice: 09/21/2016
Motion type: Legislation
Current Status: Approved 10/19/2016
Sponsor: Senate Executive Committee
Motion
Section I
1.1 WHEREAS, many committees are staffed by persons from all Senate constituencies; and
1.2 WHEREAS, Classified Staff and Officers of Administration have knowledge about members of their respective constituencies, which is useful in filling committee vacancies;
Section II
2.1 THEREFORE BE IT MOVED, that section 5.5 of the senate bylaws be amended as follows:
The Committee on Committees shall generally have 10-12 members from the Statutory Faculty as defined in the University of Oregon Constitution Section 2.2. Senate constituencies, with a majority coming from the Statutory Faculty as defined in the University of Oregon Constitution Section 2.2. To facilitate its work, the Committee membership should represent the broadest possible cross-section of campus academic units including CAS and the professional schools. The Senate Vice President is the chair of the Committee on Committees.
I do not quite understand this mathematically.
If A (say representatives from CAS) is important and we would like them to be represented
in CoC, should we say “…. as long as non-CAS menbers is a majority…”?
As an OA, I fully support and appreciate this motion. Props to Chris and the Senate Exec for its consideration of a more representative composition of leadership.
Thanks. This is a significant change .
I assume that there was an original intention which should be changed.
I assume that the word “majority” has a numerical meaning.
To make it clear, what we want to do, we should discuss what percentage
that we are talking about.
I don’t think this is a major change; not in any practical sense. Given that the Committee on Committees appoints members in all constituencies (except students) to committees, it only makes sense that the CoC represent all constituencies.
Majority means more than half.
The old text has the strikethrough, the new (replacement) text is in italics.
It would be more informative if the origin statement of relevant bylaw included here s o we know
which part has been proposed to change.
I stumbled on the sentence: “The Committee on Committees shall generally have 10-12 members from the Statutory Faculty as defined in the University of Oregon Constitution Section 2.2. Senate constituencies, with a majority coming from the Statutory Faculty as defined in the University of Oregon Constitution Section 2.2. ”
I would have been OK, had it said: “The Committee on Committees shall generally have 10-12 members from the Statutory Faculty as defined in the University of Oregon Constitution Section 2.2. Senate constituencies, with a majority OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP coming from the Statutory Faculty as defined in the University of Oregon Constitution Section 2.2.”
Thanks Frank. That was a typo (or rather some of the old language got mixed in with the new). How does the revised motion read now?
I can’t make head nor tail of that proposed bylaw change. I trust the Senate has not passed it as written..
What’s the confusion?
It’s useful to have classified staff and OAs on the Committee on Committees, and I move that we change the bylaws to allow both constituencies to serve on the CoC, so long as the majority of the committee consists of statutory faculty.