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Senators

Ibukun Amusan (Math & Sci)

Ken Andries (AFE)

Nancy Capriles (BSS)

Rene Desborde (Business)

Gary Elliott (WYS) E

Maheteme Gebremedhin (AFE)

Caroline Gibson (FIAR) A

Cindy Glass (BSS)

William Graham (EDU)

Robert Griffin (FIAR) A

Buddhian Gywali (AFE)

Dantrea Hampton (Library)

Jens Hannemann (Comp Sci)

Ashok Kumar (at large)

Vikas Kumar (AQU)

Li Lu (Math & Sci)

Rebecca McCoy (Nursing) A

Joe Moffett (LLP)

Narayanan Rajendran (at large)

Reba Rye (at large) E Rita Sharma (Math & Sci) E Kimberly Sipes (at large) Peter Smith (LLP) Stephen Ulrich (PUA, CJ, SW) Changzheng Wang (at large)

Chandee Felder (Senate Admin)

Tierra Freeman (BSS)

Elgie McFayden (Faculty Regent)

James Obielodan (Grad Director)

Donavan Ramon (WYS)

Cynthia Shelton (WYS)

Mara Merlino (BSS)

Tom Webster (AFE)

Ralph Williams (SGA President)

Fariba Bigdeli-Jahed (MASC)

Abdul Turay (Business)

The meeting was called to order at 3:13 pm. Fourteen senators were present.

The agenda was approved unanimously.

The Minutes for the 11/14/2016 meeting were unanimously approved as distributed.

Faculty Senate President Sipes returned to the need for members for committees listed in the Committee Book. Last week the nominating committee of Ken Andries and Ashok Kumar was established. They are now in the process of getting the election prepared and a call for nominations will go out soon. There will be a meeting on Tuesday, 12/6 at 11:00 am for nominations, which will be followed by online voting.

In meantime other committee members were established.