Faculty Senate Rules Committee – Annual Report – 2024-2025

Members:

Name	Rank	Department	Div	E/A	Term Ends	Email
John Boyland	FAC	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	NS	E	2025	boyland@uwm.edu
Derek Counts	FAC	Art History	AH	E	2025	dbc@uwm.edu
Melinda Kavanaugh **	FAC	Social Work	PR	E	2025	kavanaug@uwm.edu
Emily Middleton	FAC	Anthropology	SS	E	2025	middleto@uwm.edu
Stephan Scholz	FAC	Social Sciences & Business	GS	E	2025	scholzs@uwm.edu
Erica Young	FAC	Biological Sciences	NS	E	2025	ebyoung@uwm.edu
John Reisel	FAC	Secretary of the University (Chancellor Rep)	–	o	2025	reisel@uwm.edu

Charter:

A3.0 Faculty Senate Rules Committee

1. Membership.  Seven members as follows: six members of the Faculty Senate elected annually by the Faculty Senate, at least one member shall be from each Faculty Division; and the Chancellor, ex-officio.  The Chair is elected from among the members of the committee by majority vote of the Faculty Senate and becomes President pro tem of the Faculty Senate, who also serves as a member of the University Committee  Any given college may not be represented in consecutive years in the Chair of the Rules Committee; further, membership composition restrictions of the University Committee with respect to college and departmental affiliation of its members shall also be followed when electing the Chair.
2. Functions.
   1. Sets the schedule and prepares calendars for Faculty Senate and University Faculty meetings.
   2. Recommends procedures to ensure that individual Senators and Faculty members-at-large may initiate items for deliberation by the Faculty Senate and/or University Faculty in conjunction with or independent of proposals from Faculty standing committees or special committees.
   3. Resolves questions of committee jurisdiction.
   4. Coordinates committee relationships with the Faculty Senate.
   5. Designates Senators to serve in a liaison capacity with those Faculty standing committees which do not have a Senator as a member.
3. Procedures. Any member of the University Faculty as defined in 1.01(1) may propose a matter for consideration by the Faculty Senate by submitting it in proper form (1.04(4)(b) to the Faculty Senate Rules Committee through the Secretary of the University, according to the following procedures:
   1. Proposals are normally referred by the Rules Committee for review and recommendation to the appropriate Faculty standing committee, which will make its recommendation within 4 weeks.
   2. If a Faculty member believes that consideration of a proposal is being unreasonably delayed by any Faculty standing committee, they may appeal to the Faculty Senate Rules Committee for intervention and decision.
   3. Emergency proposals, which should be considered by the Faculty Senate without delay, may be placed on the calendar of a Faculty Senate meeting by the Rules Committee without the customary referral to a Faculty standing committee.
   4. Proposals submitted by non-Faculty Senate members of the Faculty and which appear on calendars of Faculty Senate meetings are placed before the body on motion of the appropriate standing committee or the Faculty Senate Rules Committee, if that Committee has assumed original jurisdiction as in (c) above.

Meetings:

The Faculty Senate Rules Committee met 9 times during the 2024-2025 Academic Year:

• September 5, 2024
• October 3, 2024
• October 31, 2024
• November 21, 2024
• January 9, 2025
• February 6, 2025
• February 27, 2025
• April 3, 2025
• April 24, 2025

At each of the meetings the Agendas for the Faculty Senate meetings were set.

The committee revised its charter to remove dependency on the number of divisions, in anticipation of the planned closure of the Division of General Studies.

President pro tem Kavanaugh arranged for a celebration at Chancellor Mone’s last Faculty Senate meeting.