Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
Fresno, California 93740-8023
Office of the Academic Senate FAX: 278-5745
Telephone: 278-2743 (EC-9)
February 6, 2012
Members Present: Michael Caldwell (Chair), Dawn Lewis, Jacinta Amaral, William Covino, Selena Farnesi (student member), Gena Gechter, Thomas
Holyoke, O. Harald Schweizer, President John Welty
Excused Absent: Lynn Williams
Visitors: V. Baker, L. Zelezny, G. Zumwalt
The meeting was called to order at 3:02 p.m. by Chair Caldwell in the Senate Conference Room, Thomas Administration 117.
1. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda.
2. Approval. MSC to approve the Minutes of 1/23/12.
3. Communications and Announcements.
Action Item
A. Memo dated January 27, 2012, from Marilyn Wilson, Chair, University Graduate Committee
to Michael Caldwell, Chair Academic Senate re: Proposal for Online Masters of Business
Administration. Memo has been received.
Item will be placed on the agenda of the next EC meeting. Dr. J. Constable, Chair of the University Budget Committee, will be invited.
4. Executive Session.
MSC to move into Executive Session. (3:05 p.m. – 3:13 p.m.)
5. Returned to Open Session. (3:13 p.m.)
MSC to approve the following recommendations:
Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Accreditation Steering Committee
Fariborz M. Tehrani, Ph.D., PE, PMP (Civil and Geomatics
Engineering) term ending June 2015 Asao B. Inoue, Ph.D. (English) term ending June
2015 Arun Nambiar, Ph.D. (Industrial Technology) term ending June 2015
6. Determine format for the Special Meeting of the Academic Senate.
The EC discussed the purpose of the special meeting of the Academic Senate (AS) and
how the meeting should be run. The following was decided by consent:
The meeting will be run like a regular meeting of the AS. However, when senators’
discussion is exhausted, guests may speak. The time limit for guest speakers is five
minutes per speaker.
Robert’s Rules of Order will be applied as same as other meetings of the AS. The Provost’s
Forum, February 16, 2012, 11:00 am, Satellite Student Union will be announced during
the AS meeting.
MSC to adjourn at 3:52 p.m.
The next meeting of the Executive Committee will be announced.
An Agenda will be distributed prior to the meeting.
Submitted by: Approved by:
Dawn K. Lewis Michael Caldwell
Vice Chair Chair
Academic Senate Academic Senate
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