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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Black"'>To: Faculty, Professional Librarians, and
Professional Staff, A&M-Commerce<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Black"'>From: R. N. Singh for Faculty Senate,
A&M-Commerce<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Black"'>Dated: September 3, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Black"'>Subject: <u>Plans for 2008-09</u><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>Our faculty senate had its
first meeting yesterday. President Jones, Provost Hendrix, and Vice President
Brown were our guest speakers. They addressed issues such as the budgeting
process for the coming year, our requests or priorities for the Texas
Legislature for special funding for the coming year (for items such as
$1,314,840 for a B. S. degree program in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Construction
Engineering</span></i>; $1,050,000 for the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Rayburn
College</span></i> aimed at recruiting and retaining transfer students;
$2,813,000 for the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>College Readiness Academy</span></i>
; and tuition revenue bond projects for a major renovation of the Gee Library
($23,250,000), the renovation of Remote Existing E&G Buildings (Ferguson
Social Sciences Bldg. and the Hall of Languages) ($11,250,000). Details on all
budget requests will be forthcoming. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>President Jones will seek
faculty input at every stage of the budgetary process. He is appointing a <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Budget Advisory Committee</span></i> that will
include three members selected by our faculty senate. The senate elected the
following faculty members for the advisory committee representing each of our
colleges: Dr. La Velle Hendricks (COEHS), Dr. Randy Odom (CBT), and Dr.
Philippe Seminet (CAS). Dr. Tim Wilson will serve as an alternate member in the
event any member is unable to attend a meeting. Dr. Odom, who is chairing the
Budget Committee of faculty senate, will coordinate reports on the advisory
committee’s activities to the senate. The senate will seek input from
everyone concerned and post on the senate’s website details on the budget
as they become available through Dr. Odom.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>Nine committees of the
faculty senate have been appointed. Listings of all committees as well as names
of senators for 2008-09 will be available on our website by early next week.
Dr. John Smith, Department of History, has been elected as the President-Elect
of Faculty Senate for this academic year. Please log into our website (under
Faculty and Staff on the university’s home page) to learn about the minutes
of our meetings and agendas of the forthcoming meetings as well. We hope you
get involved in our activities. We plan to discuss important issues such as
revisions in our tenure procedure, strategies for recruitment and retention of
students, changes in our class schedules on campus, plans for our off-campus
offerings, and so forth. Please e-mail me (</span></font><a
href="mailto:Raghu_Singh@tamu-commerce.com"><font face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-family:"Arial Black"'>Raghu_Singh@tamu-commerce.com</span></font></a><font
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-family:"Arial Black"'>) for your input on
any items you want us to address in the best interest of our university and
students.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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