Senate president Susan LeClair writes, "One of the characteristics that makes a University different from a factory is the concept of shared governance. This is not a place where bosses or overseers make 'the work go'. It is a place of deliberation, discussion and debate. It is a place where differences of opinion are valued. This is a difficult activity. Scholars are, for the most part, 'loners'. The habits of a lifetime (reading, analyzing, writing, critiquing) do not make for easy accommodation to group work, compromise, and mutual support."
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| Committee | Charge |
| Admissions | to continue to monitor admission and enrollment activities |
| Commencement | to work with individual departments to develop the new department-based Commencement activities to maintain regular communication with those in the administration planning commencement. |
| Computer Users | to identify and investigate faculty support needs to report on the Summer upgrades and plans for future |
| Cultural Affairs | to report on the issue of consistent funding and time line for that funding to present to the Senate the program for 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 |
| Ethical Standards | to develop a single sheet definition of plagiarism and campus approved rubric of sanctions to be used by ever faculty on the first day of each semester to review and improve the grade appeal policy as part of the academic honesty framework |
| Honorary Degree | to collect and submit the names of vetted candidates for honorary degrees to explain the status of past submissions who were not granted degrees (refused, denied, incompatible schedule,etc.) and determine a process by which these candidates can be recontacted |
| Library | to develop a historical data set on cost per course (by council) or program to explain the lease arrangement for system-wide library access |
| Research | to review the provost's proposal in indirect cost allocation |
| Student Faculty | to develop a Faculty's Bill of Rights and a Student Bill of Rights |
| Academic Affairs | to outline the minimum responsibilities of each to the other (these will be distributed on the first day of every semester) |
| Student Financial Aid |
to continue to monitor the non-need based scholarship to monitor upgrading of web site to work with the UMass Dartmouth Foundation in utilization of funds |
