Approved minutes of senates and their committees will be posted on Fridays, when available.

Academic Health Center Student Consultative Committee (AHC SCC), January 24, 2018
In these minutes: ​​​Health Sciences Education Center; Solicitation of Future Agenda Items and Other Business

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Approved minutes of senates and their committees will be posted on Fridays, when available.

Senate Research Committee (SRC), December 4, 2017
In these minutes:
 ​​​Lewis-Burke Associates LLC; CRAD Update; PEC Update; Ethics Week; Research in the Humanities

Equity, Access, and Diversity Committee (EAD), December 11, 2017
In these minutes:
 ​​​Racist Incidents at Morris; President and Provost’s Advisory Committee on University History; Office of Equity and Diversity Education Options; Student Parent Help Center

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Approved minutes of senates and their committees will be posted on Fridays, when available.

Classroom Advisory Subcommittee (CAS), November 27, 2017
In these minutes:
 ​​Chair’s Report; Accommodated Testing Space and Disability Needs in Classrooms; Provost’s Advisory Committee on Teaching, Learning, and Technology

ROTC, November 28, 2017
In these minutes:
 ​​Unit Presentations

Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee (AF&T), December 1, 2017
In these minutes:
 ​​​Public Engagement in Promotion and Tenure Review; Committee on Committees Review; Pre-Tenure Departures; Personnel Plans; Announcements

Social Concerns Committee, December 4, 2017
In these minutes:
 ​​Parental Leave Equity Resolution; Update on President and Provost’s Advisory Committee on University History; Updates and Next Priorities for the Committee

Senate Committee on Educational Policy (SCEP), December 6, 2017
In these minutes:
​ Fall 2017 Freshman Class; ​Letter in Support of Immigrant and DACA Students; Administrative Policy: Grading and Transcripts

P&A Consultative Committee (PACC), December 7, 2017
In these minutes:
 ​​Chair’s Report; Subcommittee Reports; Organics Recycling Resolutions; Conversation with Office of Human Resources

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Greta Friedemann-Sanchez
Professor Greta Friedemann-Sánchez grew up in Colombia, where her father was an artist and her mother an anthropologist. Friedemann-Sánchez followed in her mother’s footsteps, attending the Universidad de los Andes to study anthropology. She later came to the University of Minnesota on a MacArthur fellowship through the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC).

 

Amanda Costello

LEADERSHIP SERIES
How Silos Learn: Working in the Idea Factory

Presented by Amanda Costello

Thursday, February 8th, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Silos are awful and keep us from doing our best work, but when you’re in the middle of a silo – and maybe that silo is inside another silo – can you even make a difference and where do you start?