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<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">MEMORANDUM</FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">To:</FONT></B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Members of Faculty and Professional Staff, Texas A&M University-Commerce</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">From:</FONT></B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">R. N. Singh, Faculty Senate</FONT><B></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Dated:</FONT></B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">August 30, 2004</FONT><B></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Subject: Planning Activities of the Faculty Senate for 2004-05</FONT></B>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Colleagues, we will begin our plans for this academic year in our first senate meeting next Tuesday, September 7, 2004. We will need your ideas and help in finalizing our plans. On behalf of the senate, I request you to send me your input and ideas, particularly on matters related to the following areas of activities.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">1. One important aspect of the functioning of faculty senate is to review, update, and develop academic procedures and rules of the university. Please send us your suggestions about which of the already existing procedures and rules need to be examined or reviewed, and in what way and to what extent they should be updated or revised. </FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">2. Please let us know if you have any new or additional concerns that need to be addressed by the senate this year. One of our colleagues sent me an e-mail last week to address the issue of 'salary compression.' I will be presenting your concerns to the senate for initial discussions and, through its consent, assigning them to appropriate senate committees for study and recommendations.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">3. Our faculty senate is a member of the Texas A&M University System's Faculty Senate. We can, therefore, also make recommendations to that body review and amend any of the System's Academic Policies, if we choose to do so. Please let us know if you have concerns about any of those policies. All policies and procedures are on our university's web (under 'administration') for your information.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">4. We are planning to have a web site for our senate. It will include linkages to relevant web sites, our announcements about forthcoming activities and deadlines (such as ones related to faculty and staff awards), rosters of senators and senate committees, agendas of the forthcoming senate as well as committee meetings and open hearings, minutes of senate meetings, a space for comments and suggestions, and so forth. Any suggestions in helping us develop a meaningful web site will be most appreciated. </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">For now, you may send comments and suggestions on the above and other matters to me (</FONT><A HREF="mailto:Raghu_Singh@tamu-commerce.edu"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Raghu_Singh@tamu-commerce.edu</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">), tel. 903-886-5324. You can indicate if you would like your suggestions to be presented anonymously. Thank you. </FONT></P>
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<P><I><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Brisk">Jan Swart</FONT></I>
<BR><I><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Brisk">Texas A&M University-Commerce</FONT></I>
<BR><I><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Brisk">P. O. Box 3011 Commerce, TX 75429-3011</FONT></I>
<BR><I><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Brisk">Phone: 903-886-5022</FONT></I>
<BR><I><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Brisk">Fax: 903-886-5019</FONT></I>
<BR><I><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Brisk">jan_swart@tamu-commerce.edu</FONT></I>
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