2007-2008 FACULTY SENATE
California State University, Sacramento

AGENDA
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Foothill Suite, 3rd Floor, University Union
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

MOMENT OF SILENCE

RICARDO FAVELA Professor, Department of Art

DON YELVERTON Former Chief, Campus Police

OPEN FORUM

CONSENT INFORMATION

FS 07-56/Ex.

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT – UNIVERSITY

Student Academic Development Committee

Candace Gregory-Abbott, 2008

FS 07-57/Ex.

UNIVERSITY ARTP POLICY – minor correction of amendment to section 6.06.d

The Faculty Senate recommends insertion of a comma between “unit” and “to serve”, as shown as follows:

D. Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Representative (AA/EOR)

1. ELECTION, STATUS, SERVICE: SEARCH COMMITTEE CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OR EQUIVALENT UNIT CHAIR AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY REPRESENTATIVE

A. Each department or equivalent unit shall elect an AA/EOR from among its tenured faculty and its probationary faculty, if permitted by the department or equivalent unit, to serve as a voting member of the search committee. If the department or equivalent unit engages in multiple searches, each search committee may have the same elected AA/EOR or another elected AA/EOR.

CONSENT ACTION

FS 07-58/Ex.

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT – SENATE

Curriculum Policies Committee
Lois Boulgarides, At-large, 2010

FS 07-59/Flr.

PARLIAMENTARIAN

Thomas Krabacher, Professor of Geography, shall serve as parliamentarian for the 2007-2008 Faculty Senate.

REGULAR AGENDA

FS 07-60/Flr.

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

FIRST READING

FS 07-61/Ex.

REPORT, GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM REVIEW

The Faculty Senate receives the “Sacramento State General Education Program Self-Study” and expresses appreciation to the review team for their dedication, time and contribution.

FS 07-62/Ex.

SENATE FLOOR PROCEDURES, AMENDMENT OF

Amends FS 07-55:

The Faculty Senate recommends amending its floor procedures as follows:

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3) FIRST READING ITEMS

A motion resolution is initially presented to the Faculty Senate as a First Reading item. The presentation shall be for the purpose of informing the Senate of the intent of the motion resolution and any needs or issues the motion resolution is intended to address. The presentation will be the responsibility of the Chair of the originating body or, in the case of a motion resolution originating from the floor of the Faculty Senate, the maker of the motion and the Senate member who provided the second to the motion.

Once presented, the discussion shall be limited to 10 minutes. The time limit may be extended by a motion to extend, a second and an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the senators present.

During the first reading, the motion or resolution is subject to substantive amendment and procedural motions.

During the First Reading, the motion resolution is subject to amending, but procedural motions are in order.

FS 07-63/Flr.

PROPOSED BRITISH BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL, RESOLUTION ON THE

WHEREAS	The essence of academic freedom is vigorous discussion and debate; and
WHEREAS	Israeli academic institutions are centers of such vigorous discussion and debate, permitting sharp criticism of the Israeli government’s policies with respect to Palestine and other matters; and
WHEREAS	The British University and College Union (BUCU) is considering a boycott of Israeli professors and academic institutions based on the Israeli government’s policy toward Palestine; and
WHEREAS	Israeli academic institutions are the only ones in the entire world singled out by the BUCU, including those in countries with far worse records of academic freedom where university professors are regularly harassed, imprisoned, and dismissed for expressing opinions that run contrary to those of governmental leaders; and
WHEREAS	There is no evidence that the BUCU has made any effort to have British universities divest themselves of funds from people doing businesses in countries that have well documented patterns of persecuting their own citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, including such nations as China and Saudi Arabia; and
WHEREAS	The United States House of Representatives, by a vote of 414 to 0, passed a resolution this summer condemning the proposed boycott of Israeli academia, calling it a “totally unjustified campaign” to “limit cultural and scientific collaborations between foreign universities and academics and their counterparts in Israel; and
WHEREAS	Members of the University and College Union at the prestigious Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Britain recently voted overwhelmingly to oppose the proposed boycott; and
WHEREAS	The proposed boycott has been sharply criticized in Israel even by academics with long histories of opposing Israeli government policy; and
WHEREAS	Calling for an academic boycott of the world’s only Jewish state, and a country that allows more academic freedom than most other nations in the world, can justifiably be considered blatant anti-Semitism; now therefore be it
RESOLVED	That the California State University, Sacramento Faculty Senate strongly condemns the proposed BUCU boycott of Israeli academic institutions and therefore be it further
RESOLVED	That copies of this resolution be distributed to the British University and College Union, the Chancellor and Trustees of the California State University, and the CSU Academic Senate.

REPORT: JOSEPH SHELEY, PROVOST AND VICE PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS (15 MINUTES)

INFORMATION

1. Faculty Senate's home page:  www.csus.edu/acse, or, from the CSUS home page, click on Administration and Policy, then Administration, then Faculty Senate.

2. The Structure of Senate Meetings

3. Top Ten List of Things New Senators Should Know

4. Faculty Senate meeting schedule:

· October 18, 2007 - tentative · October 25, 2007 - tentative · Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - Livingston Lecture convocation · November 1, 2007 – tentative · November 8, 2007 - tentative · November 15, 2007 - tentative

· November 22, 2007 - Thanksgiving holiday · November 29, 2007 - tentative · December 6, 2007 - No Senate meeting · December 13, 2007 - tentative