fsfaculty: Special Senate Meeting

[Howard Embree <hde2@ra.msstate.edu>]

Faculty Colleagues,

    At last week's faculty senate meeting, a proposed resolution calling for elected faculty representatives for the Presidential Search Advisory Committee was withdrawn in view of IHL Board Member Carl Nicholson's assurances that he would attempt to convince the Search Committee to accept election as the mechanism for choosing faculty representatives and his suggestion that I forward to him a plan for such elections.

    I forwarded the plan I had described to the senate (election of 18 faculty members, appointment of others by Dean Coleman and the Board) to Mr. Nicholson that evening.

    Nothing in the relevant IHL Board Policy (Section 201.0610) prohibits such elections.

    At the IHL Board meeting yesterday, the committee decided against directing Advisory Committee Chair Dean Frances Coleman to use an elective process.  Instead, all positions on the committee will be filled by appointment, either by Dean Coleman or by the Search Committee itself.

    Accordingly, I am calling a special meeting of the senate to discuss  the following resolution, proposed by Vice Chair Walter Diehl:

    The IHL Board Presidential Search Committee having refused to permit the MSU faculty to elect its own representatives to the Advisory Committee, the Robert Holland Faculty Senate calls on the faculty to politely decline to serve on that committee by appointment.

The meeting will be Friday at 2:00 in Coskrey Auditorium in Memorial Hall.

    Please let your representatives on the senate know your thoughts on this matter.  I would be happy to discuss the matter with any member of the faculty.  As at any senate meeting, faculty members are welcome to attend.
 

Dan Embree
Chair
Robert Holland Faculty Senate