Report from Gov – (for May 10th meeting)
Apr 17
th, Chair Reinhold attended the Forum in Immigration in the age of Trump as the
representative from the Senate. Panelist included: UPD Chief of Police, Frank J. Wiley,
Barbara Smith (Office of Albany Mayor), Melanie Trimble (NYCLU), Barbara Brenner
(US Immigration and Nationality Law Attorney), Mary Armistead, Esq. (Albany Law
Immigration Clinic), Vice Chair of the UA Senate Karin Reinhold, UA Student Rep, Tara
Evans, International Student & Scholar Services. The forum was very informative and
well attended. A follow up by New York Civil Liberties Union will be held on Apr 24th,
6-9 LC 24.
Apr 18
th, Chair Reinhold participated in two Identity fora, one in the down town campus,
and the other one in the uptown campus. There will be a 3
rd one on the east campus on
May 9
th.
Apr 19
th, CNN met to review and approve roster of Council and Standing Committees
membership.
Apr 20
th, Reinhold attended the Spring faculty meeting.
Apr 21
st Senate leadership, Collins, Fox, Reinhold, met with Chief of Staff Bruce Szelest
and Interim Provost Darrel Wheeler. Conversations on path to permanency for non-
tenured track faculty and teaching evaluations of contingent faculty. Assessment is
crucial for contingent faculty and we need a systematic, periodic evaluation of teaching.
Apr 22
nd, we received a complaint that part time faculty had not received the notification
of election results. We updated our procedures immediately to avoid this mistake in the
future. Senate announcements must be sent to the full constituency.
Apr 24th, Reinhold attended a forum on Immigration, “Know your rights”, sponsored by
GSA.
May 3th, Reinhold attended a forum on strategic planning organized by Wirkkula and
Wheeler, as a follow up of the 3 strategic imperatives announced at the spring faculty
meeting (Imperative 1: Foster Our Culture of Excellence, imperative 2: Innovate Our
Programs, Imperative 3: Strengthen Our Research)
http://www.albany.edu/strategicplan/files/UAlbany_Strategic_Plan.05-01-
2017_DRAFT.pdf
May 4th, Reinhold attended a forum on “State of Research” on the down town campus.
Since our last meeting, much of my time was occupied with senate elections and council
memberships. This week and the next councils are electing their chairs for next year.
Tasks that need to be addressed now or early next year:
Strategy for having a much larger response rate for amending the bylaws.
Second attempt for: Faculty Bylaws Amendment BA 1617:01 and BA 1617:02,
voting rights to part time faculty to elect their own representative + clarification of
voting senators.
Enfranchising part time faculty and review of bylaw’s rule on amendments.
How and what to report on the website. How do we want to represent ourselves?
The elections and liaison committee is charged with the website. This committee
should work with the corresponding committee from LISC.
By now, all councils and standing committees have written procedures for their
respective councils or committees. The SEC is discussing where to host such
guidelines. The governance council and its elections and liaison committee should
also contribute to this discussion.
Discussion on establishing a procedure of electing a vice chair of councils that do
not have a pre-assigned chair by the bylaws, so that they become chairs the
following year. Possible bylaw or charter amendment.
Addition to list of bylaws amendments: ability to make the non-substantive
changes to the bylaws and charter without going through amendment process.
(Based on The OHIO state U.):
The secretary of the university senate, with the concurrence
of the election and liaison committee, is entrusted to make non-substantive emendations in diction
and grammar, and is authorized to change titles of administrative offices, administrative officers,
academic units, or student constituent groups in these bylaws following appropriate action on
these title changes by the Senate or the University Council or the SUNY Board of Trustees.
