fsfaculty: Faculty Handbook change

["Delores Hudson" <dhudson@Senate.msstate.edu>]

AUTHORIZED BY: Dr. Walter Diehl
                             President, Robert Holland Faculty Senate
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Faculty Colleagues:

The Robert Holland Faculty Senate voted to include the MSU-Meridian
Campus as an independently represented unit on the Senate.  This
requires the approval of the General Faculty.  Accordingly the
modification below to the Faculty Handbook (underlined) was presented
at
the Fall 2003 meeting of the General Faculty and electronically on
9-23-03.  

The modification is now submitted to you for your approval.  

Please vote by responding to this e-mail (dhudson@senate.msstate.edu). 



The deadline is 12:00noon on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2003.  Do not
hesitate
to contact me if you have any questions.  Thank you.

Walter Diehl
President, Robert Holland Faculty Senate
Mississippi State University


________ I vote in favor of the proposed modification to the Faculty
Handbook


________ I vote against the proposed modification to the Faculty
Handbook



III. The Faculty, 
C. THE ROBERT HOLLAND FACULTY SENATE, 
1. Composition (3rd paragraph)

Senate representation shall be re-figured at two-year intervals or as
necessitated by a change in the number of units represented. The units
to be represented are as follows: College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences and associated personnel of the Mississippi Agricultural and
Forestry Experiment Station, College of Architecture, College of Arts
and Sciences, College of Business and Industry, College of Education,
College of Engineering, College of Forest Resources and associated
personnel of the Forest and Wildlife Research Center, College of
Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University Extension Service,
Mississippi State University-Meridian Campus, and the Library. Other
units composed of members of the General Faculty may be represented
upon
the recommendation of the Robert Holland Faculty Senate and the
approval
of the General Faculty. Faculty equivalent individuals who report to
various administrative entities but do not hold appointments in one of
the units listed above shall be assigned to one of the above units by
the appropriate Vice President.