The Senate is a University-wide legislature, representing faculty, students, and other constituencies. It makes policy on a range of issues that affect the entire University or more than one school, including educational programs and priorities, the budget, academic freedom and tenure, the conduct of research, the libraries, information technology, Columbia's external relations, student sexual misconduct, rules governing political demonstrations, and
the welfare of faculty, students, and research officers. Trustee concurrence is required
for acts of the Senate.
The Senate has 107
voting seats, with 62 reserved for faculty,
24 for students, 6 for officers of research,
2 each for administrative staff, librarians, and alumni, and 9 for senior administrators including the president, who chairs monthly plenaries.
All members of the Columbia community
are welcome at these meetings. See "Introduction to the Senate." |
Highlights of 2008-2009
University policies adopted by the Senate in recent years
Other recent Senate initiatives
Two hearings on student housing, April 2, 2009 (transcript to come)
and February 29, 2008
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Open Access
The Senate Libraries Committee continues to discuss Open Access, the movement to provide free access to material on the Internet. There is a newly revised website for the Copyright Advisory Office, including a blog about the pending Google Books settlement by Kenneth Crews, director of that office.
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The next plenary session will be on Friday,
February 26, 1:15 p.m.,
107 Jerome Green Hall.
Here is the agenda for the January 29 meeting with links to documents.
SENATE PLENARY
MEETINGS 2010
(Always on Friday at 1:15 p.m.)
April 2
105 Jerome Greene Hall
April 30
Location to be announced.
2010-2011
September 24
October 22
November 12
December 3
January 28
February 25
April 1
April 29 |
