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State University of New York at Buffalo Faculty Senate
Major Resolutions of the Senate

INTRODUCTION

  1. Resolutions on General Operating Procedures of the Senate
    1. Minutes
    2. Resolutions
    3. Administrators on Standing Committees
    4. Elections
  2. Resolutions on Governance
    1. Faculty Governance and Administration
    2. Budget Committees in Decanal Units
    3. Search Procedures for Senior Administrators
    4. Faculty Role in Evaluation of Deans
    5. Faculty Input on Chairs
    6. Review by the Middle States Association
    7. Organization of the University
    8. Administration of Summer School Programs
    9. Mission, Vision, Emphases and Outcomes 1995-2005
    10. Arming of Public Safety Officers
    11. Transfer of Statistics Department
    12. Graduate School Bylaws
    13. Transfer of Rachel Carson College and College H
    14. Combination of Departments, School of Architecture
    15. Split of Art and Art History
    16. Establishment of Center for Teaching Effectiveness
    17. Resolution of Women's Studies
  3. Resolutions on Undergraduate Admissions, Degree Requirements and the Undergraduate College
    1. Mid-Semester Progress Reports for Freshmen And First-Semester Transfer Students
    2. Undergraduate Admissions
      1. Freshman Admissions
      2. Early Decision
      3. Annual Report on Freshman Admissions
      4. Individualized Admissions
      5. Faculty Role in Student Recruitment
    3. General Education Requirements
      1. Overall requirements
      2. S/U Grading
      3. Approval of Liberal Arts Components
    4. Departmental HonorsPrograms
    5. Minimum Semester Hour Graduation Requirements
    6. Undergraduate Teaching Assistants
    7. Access to Undergraduate Major Programs
    8. Submission of Grades
    9. Physical Education Requirement
    10. A "Fresh Start" Policy for Undergraduates at the University at Buffalo
    11. Grade Replacement
    12. Undergraduate Independent Study
    13. Obstruction or Disruption in the Classroom
    14. Administrative Resignationsfrom Undergraduate Courses
    15. Academic Standards Policy
    16. Distance Education
  4. Faculty Promotions, Appointments, Reappointments and Development
    1. Annual Meetings for PRB Chair and Department Chairs
    2. Wider Dissemination of Information about the PRB
    3. Evaluation Letters in Promotion and Tenure Cases
    4. Faculty Development
    5. Extension of the Tenure Clock
    6. Junior Faculty Retention and Mentoring Initiative
    7. Resolution from the Faculty Senate Standing Committee on Tenure and Privileges Regarding Participation of ORU's, Centers and Institutes in the Promotion Process
  5. Workload, Sabbaticals, and Teaching
    1. Consultation on Faculty Utilization
    2. Comparison with Leading Institutions
    3. Faculty Responsibility Policy
    4. Sabbatical Leaves
    5. Teaching
    6. Teaching Assessment and Improvement
    7. Faculty Roles in Advisement
    8. Assesment of Educational Programs
    9. Student Evaluations of Instruction
    10. Assessments of Instructional Effectiveness
    11. Class Absences Policy
  6. Public Service
  7. Responsible Conduct and Investigator Disclosure Policy
    1. Responsible Conduct
    2. Investigator Disclosure
  8. Athletic Policy
    1. Campus Autonomy, Grants-in-Aid, and Athletic Policy
    2. SUNY Trustee's Policy
    3. Academic Eligibility for Student Athletes
    4. Mandatory Athletic Fee for Students
    5. Student Participation in Athletics
  9. Distributed Information Technology
    1. Distributed Information Technology
    2. Support for University Libraries
    3. Student Access to Computing
    4. Assessment of Computing and Technology Support for Faculty Areas of Responsibility
  10. Quality of University Life
    1. Physical Facility for a University Club
    2. Surveys on the Quality of Faculty Life
  11. Affirmative Action
    1. Resolution #1
    2. Resolution #2
    3. Resolution #3
  12. Resolutions on SUNY-wide Issues
    1. Achievement Testing
    2. The New Paltz Situation
    3. The SUNY Press
  13. Other Resolutions
    1. Smoking Policy
    2. Exchange Programs with China
    3. Access to Campus/Law School Recruitment Policy
    4. Chancellor's Award for Research & Creative Activity
    5. Complimentary Copies of Textbooks
    6. Limits to Free Speech
    7. Privacy of Electronic Communication
    8. Talloires Declaration
    9. Alert for Instructional Staff

Attachments:

    1. Proposed General Education Requirements for Fall '91 Freshman
    2. Departmental Honors
    3. Procedure for the Review of Academic Deans

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