Minutes of 15 March 2004
First Circulated 16 March 2004
Re-Circulated 18 April 2004
Re-Circulated 16 September 2004
Approved 25 October 2004

15 MARCH 2004

ATTENDANCE

Present:  Barsky, Berent, Bradley, Brown, Cebulski, Cho, Combi, Ensminger, Giordani, Goldman, Gould, Green, Gull, G. R. Holland, Hu, Kim, Koopmann (Chair), Lehman, Macoska, Meerkov, Mitani, Moore, Norris, Ohye, Page, Pedraza, Peters, Pohl, Potter, Quint, Remick, Riebesell, Rush, Sagher, Sahiner, Seabury, Sension, Smith, Thornton, Wechsler, Yeo, Younker, Ziff, Zorn

Alternates: Cimprich (Nursing – Raisler), Luethge (Flint – Byosiere), Simpson (Medicine – Bartlett)

Absent:  Akerlof, Alfred, Andersen, Ben-Shahar, Boyd, Carlisle, Clarkson, Colas, Elenbogen, Fishman, Frier, Hall, M. Holland, Huntley, Hutchinson, Jackson, Johnson, Keller-Cohen, Lithgow-Bertelloni, Liu, Moran, Orr, Pritchard, Robertson, Ross, Ruffin, Schwendeman, Seyhun, Shimp, Tropman, Watkins, Whatley

MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED

1. Senate Assembly agenda
2. Draft minutes of the Senate Assembly meeting of 16 February 2004
3. Electronic mail message from J. Riebesell to J. Lehman, dated 17 February 2004, regarding draft minutes of 16 February

Chair Koopmann convened the meeting at 3:18 P.M.  The proposed agenda was adopted.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chair Koopmann announced:
1.  Several topics are under consideration for the April meeting.  One possibility is a presentation from Athletic Director Martin.

2.  A future issue that likely will come before SACUA is the fact that social security numbers are still being used for identification purposes on U-M websites.  This presents problems to the administrators of the programs because it is an effective way to identify people, despite acknowledged risk of identity theft.  One possibility is to simply use the last 4 digits of the number. 

3.  Efforts to select a university-wide ombuds are moving forward.  The field of candidates has been narrowed to a set of finalists by the provost and his staff.

CONSIDERATION OF THE MINUTES OF THE SENATE ASSEMBLY MEETING OF 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The minutes were amended and approved.

TELLERS
Professors T. E. Moore and R. Green were elected as tellers for the upcoming election.

SACUA ELECTION
         Chair Koopmann read the names of candidates standing for election to SACUA.  He invited further nominations from the floor.  No nominations were offered and the Assembly voted to ratify the recommendations from the nominating committee and to close nominations from the floor.

Chair Koopmann invited the candidates to offer oral presentations if they wished to do so.  The following candidates offered remarks:
         Professor M. Combi
         Professor B. Giordani
         Professor M. Gould
         Professor S. Meerkov
         Professor J. Rush
         Professor C. B. Smith
         Professor B. Younker

Ballots were distributed by Faculty Senate staff at 3:40 P.M.  Ballots were collected and turned over to the tellers at 3:45 P.M. 

The tellers made their report at 3:59 P.M.  They delivered their report to the chair and he read the results to the Assembly.  Koopmann reported that the following faculty had been elected:
         Professor Giordani
         Professor Combi
         Professor Meerkov

          The tally sheet recorded the following vote totals:

Blair              4
Combi          15
Giordani       25
Gould           10
Ketafian         6
Meerkov       19
Rush             11
Smith           19          (seat disallowed owing to seating limit for School of Medicine)
Younker        10

Chair Koopmann invited Assembly members and committees to develop suggested agenda topics for future meetings of either SACUA or Senate Assembly and to transmit them to SACUA, or to voice them at a future meeting.  He asked members to poll constituents in their units and to bring expressed concerns forward.  He suggested that one perennial topic of interest is parking.  This precipitated a series of remarks from Assembly members illustrating both depth and breadth of concern and frustration.

OLD BUSINESS
There was no old business.

NEW BUSINESS
There was no new business.

The meeting adjourned at 4:00 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

John T. Lehman
Senate Secretary

University of Michigan Bylaws of the Board of Regents, Sec. 5.02: 

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