Faculty Senate: Index
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Motion Requests
Merged Student Ratings of Instruction Instrument, Dustin Anderson
Date: January 28, 2019
Approved by the Senate: February 5, 2019
Approved by the President: February 13, 2019
Modification of Date For Last Day To Withdraw From A Class Without Academic Penalty, Richard Flynn
Date: March 2, 2003
Modification of last date to withdraw from a class without academic penalty, Richard Flynn
Date: June 25, 2003
Approved by the Senate: June 25, 2003
Approved by the President: June 30, 2003
Motion for a Joint Resolution on Admissions and Protest, Michelle Haberland
Date: February 28, 2018
Approved by the Senate: March 6, 2018
Not Approved by the President: May 3, 2018
Motion on allowing faculty to change from ORP to TRS, Godfrey Gibbison
Date: September 21, 2006
Motion on Moratorium (Executive/Administrative/Managerial increases), Michael Moore, Maria Adamos, Robert K. Batchelor, Yasar Bodur, John Brown, Kathleen M. Comerford, Robert Costomiris, Marc D. Cyr, Richard Flynn, Julia Griffin, Michelle Haberland, Alina Iacob, Stephen Jenkins, Rebecca Kennerly, Gautam Kundu, Maggie LaMontagne, Goran Lesaja, Johanne Lewis, James M. LoBue, Trent W. Maurer, Bruce McLean, Frédéric D. Mynard, Eric Nelson, Sze-man Ngai, Sandra Peacock, Joe Pellegrino, Rob Pirro, Dan Rea, Michelle Reidel, James S. Reichard, Fredrick Rich, Paul Rodell, Candy Schille, Katy Smith, John Steinberg, Jeff Tysinger, Wei Tu, Mary Villeponteaux, Janice Walker, Mark Welford, Jamie Woods, and Robert Yarbrough
Date: May 23, 2012
Approved by the Senate: June 9, 2012
Not Approved by the President: June 29, 2012
Motion to accept changes to section 317 of the faculty handbook, Jonathan C. Hilpert and Faculty Welfare Committee
Date: March 21, 2019
Approved by the Senate: April 3, 2019
Approved by the President: May 2, 2019
Motion to accept changes to the faculty handbook, Jonathan Hilpert and Faculty Welfare Committee
Date: September 19, 2018
Approved by the Senate: November 26, 2018
Approved by the President: February 13, 2019
Motion to accept changes to the faculty handbook sections 322-02 and 322.03, Jonathan Hilpert and Faculty Welfare Committee
Date: November 6, 2018
Approved by the Senate: November 27, 2018
Approved by the President: February 13, 2019
Motion to accept the updates to the Faculty Senate Bylaws (handbook section 324 and Faculty Senate documents), Dustin Anderson
Date: March 22, 2019
Approved by the Senate: April 3, 2019
Approved by the President: May 2, 2019
Motion to Address Appointing Alternates to the Undergraduate Committee, Phyllia Dallas
Date: May 26, 2003
Approved by the Senate: June 5, 2003
Motion to Allow Faculty Athletic Representative to Succeed him(her)self an indeterminate number of times., Patricia B. Humphrey and For the President, Dr. Brooks Keel
Date: September 14, 2014
Approved by the Senate: October 8, 2014
Approved by the President: October 9, 2014
Motion to Alter Graduate Faculty Status Procedure, Jim McMillan
Date: June 25, 2003
Motion to amend the Faculty Handbook to better describe the evaluation of teaching, 205.01, Fred Smith and Faculty Welfare Committee
Date: March 26, 2015
Approved by the Senate: April 21, 2015
Approved by the President: April 23, 2015
Motion to Approve Changes to Section 317 of the Faculty Handbook, Jonathan Hilpert and Faculty Welfare Committee
Date: February 21, 2019
Not Approved by the Senate: March 7, 2019
Motion to approve the transitional tenure and promotion policy, Jonathan Hilpert and Faculty Welfare Committee
Date: February 21, 2019
Approved by the Senate: March 7, 2019
Approved by the President: March 18, 2019
Motion to establish procedure for response to death in University community, Mary Marwitz
Date: August 16, 2007
Motion to follow existing university policies and procedures during the development of new, consolidated faculty governance documents, Jonathan Hilpert, Rob Yarbrough, Mark Welford, Ted Brimeyer, Michelle Haberland, and Michael Moore
Date: January 30, 2018
Approved by the Senate: February 7, 2018
Not Approved by the President: February 12, 2018
Motion to Recommend the Elimination of the Adjusted GPA, Bill Levernier
Date: January 2, 2004
Motion to remove the wording "adapted" to various learning styles" from the Faculty Handbook., Fred Smith and Faculty Welfare Committee
Date: March 25, 2015
Motion to restore a visible link to the library on www.georgiasouthern.edu, David Robinson
Date: January 23, 2007
Approved by the Senate: February 15, 2007
Approved by the President: March 28, 2007
Motion to update the textbook policy (218) to align with the current Board of Regents Policy, Dustin Anderson
Date: February 21, 2019
Approved by the Senate: March 7, 2019
Approved by the President: March 18, 2019
Moving the Faculty Handbook to a Digital Platform, Dustin Anderson
Date: August 29, 2018
Approved by the Senate: September 5, 2018
Approved by the President: September 7, 2018
NCAA Faculty Athletic Representative, Georgia Southern University and Senate Executive Committee
Date: April 15, 2010
Approved by the Senate: April 15, 2010
Approved by the President: April 21, 2010
Need for faculty review of university web site design and content, David Robinson
Date: January 23, 2007
Approved by the Senate: February 15, 2007
Approved by the President: March 28, 2007
