WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY

FACULTY SENATE

 AGENDA

 

MEETING NOTICE Monday, January 27, 2003
   
  Room 126 CH, 3:30 p.m.  NOTE ROOM CHANGE

ORDER OF BUSINESS: 

I. Call of the Meeting to Order
II. Informal Statements and Proposals
   
III. Approval of the Minutes
Minutes of the Meeting of Monday, December 9, 2002   http://webs.wichita.edu/senate/M12-9-02.htm
IV. President’s Report
   
V. Committee Reports
   
  A.  Library Committee -  Phillip Parker, Chair
       The Faculty Senate Library Committee urges the Faculty Senate to adopt the following motion:

      "The Faculty Senate of the Wichita State University regards the USA PATRIOT Act (2001) as a threat to the rights of the faculty, staff, and students since the legislation undermines the confidentiality that is necessary for the flow of information within a university. We urge higher education and the nation's leaders to implement the legislation in a way that will protect our civil liberties while still assuring greater national security."

 
The following information comes from the American Library Association (ALA) web page http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usapatriotact.html:  Libraries or librarians served with a search warrant issued under FISA rules may not disclose, under of penalty of law, the existence of the warrant or the fact that records were produced as a result of the warrant. A patron cannot be told that his or her records were given to the FBI or that he or she is the subject of an FBI investigation.  Overrides state library confidentiality laws protecting library records.
Other ALA web sites of interest are:
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usapatriotlibrary.html

Other informational web sites:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/patriot_foia_complaint.pdf
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot/

 

VI.

Old Business

  A.  Proposed Food Service Policy   http://webs.wichita.edu/senate/food.htm
   
  B. Motion from the Library Committee - Senator Parker will present the Library Committee's motion.  (see committee reports)  
   
VII. New Business
A.  Budget Update --  Mary Herrin, Associate Vice President & Director of Budgets
  B.  Proposed Student/Faculty Advisory Committee on Tuition --  Adam Kice, SGA
   
VIII. As May Arise
   

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Office Campus Phone Campus Box
Kirk Lancaster, President 3982 Box 33
Barbara Hodson, Vice President 6342 Box 75
Dwight Murphey, Secretary  7125 Box 77
Elizabeth Behrman, President Elect  6460 Box 102
Jeri Carroll, Past President 6865 Box 28

Elected by the Senate
J. David McDonald 6097 Box 26
Peer Moore-Jansen 7059 Box 52

Appointed by the Faculty Senate President
Silvia Herzog 6268 Box 53
     
Office of Faculty Senate 3504 Box 111