<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a3b2fbde-7fff-6c12-ef99-3f140ae8b52f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sign Up Today for a Faculty Senate standing committee!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Indicate your interest in serving by completing the short form available here: </span><a href="https://forms.gle/nmVJPaAUJssvunQB8" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://forms.gle/uiH9tPeC6hCbiL9x8</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,37,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please complete this form by Friday, May 8.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Committee membership is open to all faculty—teaching, and professional—and the term of appointment is two years.</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Academic Policies.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Formulate, review, and make recommendations concerning academic policies of a college-wide nature, such as those concerning admissions, graduation requirements, academic standards, and institutional assessment.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Curricula & Programs.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Review and make recommendations concerning proposed changes in the substance or status (including termination) of existing programs and proposed new programs of instruction, research, and service offered by the college.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General Education.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Develop the general education curriculum, implement general education policies, monitor the administration of the general education curriculum, and recommend policies on general education.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Resources & Planning.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Study the college’s budget and planning documents to become thoroughly familiar with the structure, provisions, and development of these documents, advise or consult with the college president (or their designee), and review or formulate policy for Faculty Senate consideration.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Student Life.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Review and make recommendations concerning educational, developmental, social, cultural, and recreational policies, programs, issues, and services that affect the quality of student life and the campus environment.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Writing Across the Curriculum.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Monitor the administration of the Writing Across the Curriculum program and recommend policies on writing across the curriculum.</span></p></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you would like a refresher on the scope of the committees, scroll down to the Committee Composition and Responsibilities tab of the Faculty Senate's Orientation page, available here: </span><a href="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-senate/faculty-senate-orientation.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.plattsburgh.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-senate/faculty-senate-orientation.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></span></div></div>