Minutes

Rules and Review Committee

Villanova University Senate

Date:               November 2, 2007

Present:           Helen Heron; James Glasgow; Selma Koury-Wunderlich; Robert Styer

Absent:            Robert Dormish;  Stephen Fugale;  John Johannes;  Thomas

                         Nardi; Rose O’Driscoll (NIA); Kristin Seeger ’92;  

                        Deepak Sharma;  Jay Strieb;  John Stofey

Agenda:

I.           Approval of Minutes of October 11, 2007 Meeting: approved as amended. 

II.          Status Reports

• Update on the Amendment for Committee on Staff

 At the request of Fr. Donohue, the committee is tabling this amendment until after he presents his Annual Address to the Senate on November 30, 2007

• Issue of a Graduate Student Senator

Bob Styer gave a brief background on the issues and discussed the structure of the graduate student organization in Arts and Sciences.  He emailed Senator Tully for information on the Engineering College graduate student structure.  Members recommended he contact associate deans Rose O’Driscoll and Simone Pollard for information on the graduate student structures in Nursing and VSB. 

III.       Old Business

The Committee made the decision to postpone the issue of the addition of Alumni to the Executive Committee. 

IV.        New Business

      A tentative date was set for our next meeting on January 31, 2008.  Jim Glasgow recommended we ask for members’ class schedules to enable more efficient scheduling. 

The meeting was adjourned at 3:37 PM in the Rosemont Room in the Connelly Center by Mr. Glasgow.  The motion was seconded by Dr. Koury-Wunderlich and unanimously approved.  The revised minutes will be forwarded to the Executive Committee.