May 29, 2015 Agenda

Meeting Call for Regular Meeting of the Santa Cruz Division
Friday, May 29, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.
Stevenson Event Center
ORDER OF BUSINESS

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1. Approval of Draft Minutes

a. Draft Minutes of April 22, 2015 (AS/SCM/311)

2. Announcements          

a. Chair Brenneis 

b. Chancellor Blumenthal

c. Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Galloway    

3. Report of the Representative to the Assembly (none)

4. Special Orders: Annual Reports

CONSENT CALENDAR:

a. Committee on Facutly Research Lecture (AS/SCP/1796)

5. Reports of Special Committees (none)

6. Reports of Standing Committees

a. Committee on Committees

i. Committee Nominations for 2015-16 (AS/SCP/1787)

b. Committee Computing and Telecommunications 

i. Amendment to Bylaw 13.15 (AS/SCP/1788)

c. Committee on Faculty Welfare 

i. Report on Faculty Housing and the Campus Resale Pricing Program (AS/SCP/1789)

ii. Updates on Child Care, Faculty Salaries, Healthcare, and Retirement (AS/SCP/1790)

d. Committee on International Education  

i. Making International Collaboration Agreements Swift, Flexible and Open (AS/SCP/1791)

ii. Principles, Processes, and Questions for Global Engagement: Lessons from CIE's 2013-14 Faculty Survey and Department Visits (AS/SCP/1792)

e. Committee on Teaching

i. Report on the Center for Advancement of Teaching (AS/SCP/1793)

f. Graduate Council

i. Amdendment to Bylaw 13.21 (AS/SCP/1794)

7. Report of the Student Union Assembly Chair

8. Report of the Graduate Student Association President 

9. Petitions of Students (none)

10. Unfinished Business (none)

11. University and Faculty Welfare

12. New Business

a. A Resolution Calling on the UC Academic Council to Request that all Divisional Senates (a) Discuss and (b) Vote to Support a Memorial to the Regents to Divest the UC's General Endowment Pool of Fossil Fuel Holdings (AS/SCP/1795)