Current Issues
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2007-08 Academic Year Proposed Bylaw Changes
2006-07 Academic Year Reapportionment of Faculty Senate Groups Proposed Bylaws Amendments and Spreadsheet
2006.07 Budget Report
2005-06 Academic Year Presentation by Dr. Sandra Terrell, Toulouse School of Graduate Studies
Presentation by Rick Villarreal, UNT Director of Athletics
2004-05 Academic Year Questions From Town Hall Meeting With Administrators
Tenure Committee Process
Ad-Hoc Committee
Academic Plan
Read about Responsibility Center Management (RCM)
Reports of Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Women
Report on Market Adjustments
by Provost Johnson
Summary of
Market Adjustments 04-05
Faculty Salary Comparison Using CUPA Faculty Salary Survey Dat
2003-04 Academic Year Faculty Workload Report by Department
Over/Under Report 2003-2004
Provost's Academic Plan
UNT Faculty ForumFall 2003 Newsletter:
Front and Back Pages Inside Pages
Chair Chat, September
Use of Reserves for Non-Academic ProjectsTHECB Classroom Utilization Report
2002-03 Academic Year Appendix II Salary Comparisons-10-02
Model Submission of a Core Component Assessment
Guidelines for Fulfilling Assessment Objectives for all New Courses to the Core Curriculum
Guidelines for Fulfilling Assessment Objectives for all New Courses to the Core Curriculum
Achieving The Vision: UNT in 2015 Calendar of Activities:
1. Spring Forum I Academic Issues [02/01/2001]: President Norval Pohl's charge to the faculty included a request for each unit to draft plans and report on how it will help meet the Vision for 2015
2. Spring Forum II: Campus Community Issues [03/01/2001]
3. February - March 16: Departmental and College Plans prepared
4. April: Departmental and College Plans are reviewedFactors Affecting the State Budget - Phil Diebel
Ad Hoc Committee To Revise the University Policies Related to Sexual Harassment, Approved by the Senate, Feb., 2001 - Melody Kelly, Chair Cover Report [Word Doc.]; Policy 10.12.11 [Word Doc.]; Policy 1.3.7 [Word Doc.]; Policy 1.3.19 [Word Doc.]; Policy 1.7.5 [Word Doc.]; Policy 1.3yy [Word Doc.]
Expanding the Technology Workforce: Higher Education's Role - prepared by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Highlights: require public colleges and universities to develop and implement plans that will double the number of engineering, computer science, math, and physical science degrees awarded by 2012; require the state's public community and technical colleges, with input from industry, develop common, fully transferable high-technology core courses; and institutions and industry should cooperate to provide teachers, counselors, parents, and students more and better information regarding career opportunities in higher-technology fields. (taken from VPAA David Kesterson's Power Point presentation 02-01-2001)
Measuring Up 2000: The State-by State Report Card for Higher Education - prepared by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. How Texas Scored: Preparation = C; Participation = D; Affordability = C; Completion = D+; Benefits = C; and Learning = I
Special Commission on 21st Century Colleges and Universities (Governor Rick Perry) - The Commission Report: Higher Education in the 21st Century - Moving Every Texan Forward [requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader] Issues: workforce needs; demographic changes; ways to enhance the higher education system - including accessibility/affordability of a college degree; role of advanced technology in facilitating learning and preparing students for the jobs of the future; and the appropriate role/mission of higher education. See also the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Higher Education Planning Committee below.
Op-Ed by Lt. Gov. Perry [October, 1999]
Commission Update October, 1999
Commission Update December, 1999
Commission Update October, 2000
Read Gov. Perry's January, 2001 Press Release: Proposed Reform of Higher Education
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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Higher Education Planning Committee - Issues: Coordinating Board is "... developing a new higher education plan that will focus on a small number of goals that will make the most difference in improving and extending the benefits of higher education to the people of Texas." Final recommendations by the four sub-groups are due by September 2000. Read "Closing the Gap, Draft Texas Higher Education Plan." [Requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader]
NOTE: To keep up with Coordinating Board and Legislative issues affecting Texas higher education subscribe to Wanda Mills' Weekly Reader listserv. Address an email message to: Listserv@listserv.tamu.edu Leave the Subject line blank. The message should have only one line: subscribe TASSCUBO [your name]
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Report on Academic Performance of Texas Public Universities - Issues: A summary of the academic performance of public universities in Texas including: headcount, enrollment by ethnicity, 6-year graduation rates and more. These statistics are used along with other reports to determine institutional "accountability."
The Texas Legislature Online - In November members of the Legislature began filling bills for the spring 2001 session. The Texas Legislature Online site is updated daily. Many of the proposed bills will affect Higher Education and UNT. Search by bill number, sponsor, committee or topic.
UCITA - Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (Texas Library Association On the Legislative Front Information Page) - A version of UCITA was introduced February 14, 2001 by Sen. John Carona as S.B. 709 Articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education predict serious consequences for academic freedom, faculty research, classroom teaching, and the costs of doing business when UCITA legislation is passed.
Send comments or questions to Kathy Nichols, knichols@unt.edu, at the Faculty Senate Office,
Telephone (940) 565-2053.
Site last updated on April 16, 2008.
