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 many significant 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." |
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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. Kenny Crews, director of the Columbia Copyright Advisory Office, has been blogging about the pending Google Books settlement. There will also soon be a newly revised website of the Copyright Advisory Office.
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The next plenary session will be on Friday,
December 4, 1:15 p.m.,
in 107 Jerome Greene Hall.
Here is the agenda from the November 13 meeting.
SENATE PLENARY
MEETINGS 2010
(Always on Friday at 1:15 p.m.; locations to be announced)
January 29
February 26
April 2
April 30
2010-2011
September 24
October 22
November 12
December 3
January 28
February 25
April 1
April 29 |
