Faculty Senate

Documents

Faculty Senate Documents: Managing the Senate

• Constitution and Bylaws

• Faculty Senate Committee Agendas 2011-2012
• Faculty Senate Initial Committee Agendas 2010-2011
• Faculty Senate Initial Committee Agendas 2009-2010

• PCRRC Policy and Procedures Manual
• PCRRC Appendix to Chapter 2 Fifteen Stage Process for Approval of New Academic Degree Programs

• Parliamentary Procedure Chart
• Quick-Start Document for Editing Faculty Senate Web Pages

Documents: Campus-wide Interest

• Faculty Senate Recommended Mid-semester Teaching Evaluation Form (Word Document)
• Campus Strategic Plan 2000-2005 (PDF)
• Faculty Handbook 1983
• Faculty Handbook Draft 2003
• Faculty Handbook Draft 2006
• Shared Governance Policy: University of Maine
• Statement on Shared Governance: UMS Board of Trustees
• University of Maine System Statement of Policy Governing Patents and Copyrights (pdf)
• Faculty Partner Accommodation Program
• UMaine Retention & Graduation Rates 1997-2011 & Retention Chart 1985-2011

2011-2012

• Strategic Implementation Plan for Enhancement of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (Jan 2012)
• Faculty Responses to the UMaine Strategic Implementation Plan for Enhancement of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (150 faculty survey responses, April 2012)
  (pdf file) (Excel file)
• The University of Maine Information Technology Strategic Plan (Final Draft 23 Feb 2012)
• Faculty Responses to the UMaine Information Technology Strategic Plan
  (127 faculty survey responses, April 2012)
  (pdf file) (Excel file)
• University of Maine General Education Requirements – Revised (Approved April 2012 by Faculty Senate)

2012-2013

• Blue Sky Plan (2012)
• Board of Trustees Goals and Actions
• Asynchronous web-based courses at UMaine: From the students’ perspective (Oct 2012 Survey)
• Results from the UMaine New Student Survey (Oct 2012)
• Who Teaches What: Report (Oct 2012)
• Who Teaches What: Appendices (Oct 2012)
• University of Maine Brand Standards (Nov 2012)
• Improving the UMS Performance-Based Funding Approach by Faculty Senate (Nov 2012)
• Graduate School Presentation
• UMS Administrative Review:Information Technology Services (Jan 11, 2013)
• Poll of UMaine Faculty on Potential Work to Rule Actions 
• Life After UMaine 2010-2011
• Commission on Regulation of Postsecondary Distance Education
• President Ferguson Blue Sky Progress Letter on Faculty Senate Priorities (4/14/2013)
• Provost Hunter on Academic Status of UMaine (Slides: 4/17/2013)
• Spread Sheet Images for Academic Status of UMaine (4/17/2013)

2012 -2013 Documents for Meetings of the Full Faculty Senate

• 19 September 2012 Packet
• 17 October 2012 Packet
• 14 November 2012 Packet
• 12 December 2012 Packet
• 30 January 2013 Packet
• 27 February 2013 Packet
• 3 April 2013 Packet
• 1 May 2013 Packet
• 29 May 2013 Packet

Public Statements

• Inaugural Address Welcoming Dr. Paul Ferguson as 19^th President of the University of Maine, By Dr. Michael Grillo, President, Faculty Senate, University of Maine