Spring 2025 Semester Update

• Adjourned - Professor Jenn Goodnough, chair, Senate and Faculty Consultative Committees
• Vickie R. Courtney Award Recipients - Stacy Maher, Taiwo Aremu, Tim Johnson
• The Big Issues
  • Core Curriculum
  • Floating Holidays for Twin Cities and Rochester
  • Federal Landscape
  • Term Faculty and P&A
• Senate Office Mailbag
• Spotlight on: Taiwo Aremu, chair, Student Senate and SSCC
• Message from the Director - Laurie Cooper Stoll, director, University Senate Office
• University Senate Governance Working 4 U

A Message from the Chair

The Big Issues: Digital Accessibility, Governance Response to Protests, PEAK

Senate Office Mailbag

Get to Know the Our New Director!

Call for Nominations: Vickie R. Courtney Award for Outstanding Service to University Senate Governance

University Senate Governance Working 4 U

Adjourned - Prof. Mark Bee, chair, Senate and Faculty Consultative Committees

The Vickie R. Courtney Award: Katherine Dowd, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, and Jessica Grittner

The Big Issues: Israel/Gaza Position Statement; PELRA Reform; Unit Statements; Response to Arrest of Protestors

Spotlight on: Jessie Barnett

Message from the Director - Erin Heath, director, University Senate Office

University Senate Governance Working 4 U

Adjourned - Professor Colleen Flaherty Manchester, chair, Senate and Faculty Consultative Committees

The Vickie R. Courtney Award for Outstanding Service to University Senate Governance - 2023 recipients Lynette Renner and Adam Sychla

The Big Issues:
Workforce Reinvestment Resolution
Substance Misuse Recovery Resolution
SCC Input on Interim President Position

A View from the Inside: The Making of a New University Holiday - Amber Bathke, senior senate associate, and Missy Juliette, senate associate

University Senate Governance Working 4U - Updates from the five consultative committees

University/Faculty Senate Recaps

A Message from the Director - Erin Heath, director

A Message from the Chair

The Big Issues

• Academic Freedom and Term Appointments
• Wellbeing Program
• Professional Development Modules on Disability
• Response to Regent Sviggum's Comments on Diversity

A View from the Inside: When Words Speak Louder Than (Legislative) Actions

University Senate Governance Working For U

• Updates from the five consultative committees

Spotlight On: Mitch Zamoff

University/Faculty Senate Meeting Recaps

Director's Note

Call for Nominations: Vickie R. Courtney Award for Outstanding Service to University Senate Governance

Adjourned
Vickie R. Courtney Award Recipients
The Big Issues
University Senate Governance Working For U
University/Faculty Senate Recaps
Spotlight on: Edgar Arriaga
A Message from the Director

A Message from the Chair
The Big Issues

• Caste-based discrimination
• Namings and Renamings policy
• The PEAK Initiative

A View from the Inside: Demystifying Consultation
University Senate Governance Working For U

• Updates from the five consultative committees

Spotlight On: Nicole Smiley
University/Faculty Senate Meeting Recaps
From the Director
Welcome, Erin!

Adjourned: A Message from SCC/FCC Chair Phil Buhlmann

Recognizing Outstanding Service to University Senate Governance: Terry Beseman, Etty DeVeaux, Tabitha Grier-Reed

The Big Issues: Proctorio, Recommendations to the M Safe Implementation Team, Fixed Term/Contract Faculty and Instructors

University Senate Governance Working For U: Updates from the Faculty, Student, Civil Service, and P&A Consultative Committees

Spotlight On: Briggs Tople

University/Faculty Senate Meeting Recaps: February 25, March 25, and April 22, 2021

Message from the Director: Looking Forward

December 11, 2020

This edition of the Semester Update includes a message from Professor Phil Buhlmann, chair of the Faculty and Senate Consultative Committees; an update on recruitment efforts from Etty DeVeaux, chair of the Senate Committee on Committees, and a word from the director of the Senate Office, Vickie Courtney. Also covered are the big issues of the semester (S/N grading and Board of Regents Policy: Alcoholic Beverages on Campus), as well as updates from the consultative committees and recaps of three University/Faculty Senate meetings. Adolfo Carrillo Cabello (left) is featured in the Spotlight.