Friday, April 2, 2021

Emeritus Faculty Council Agenda

9:30-11:00 April 5, 2021, Zoom

Call to Order: Gilbert

Meeting Host: Fleckenstein, Gilbert

Speaker:  Lois Geist, Associate Provost for Faculty

[Please note this change to the agenda; Associate Provost Geist has been called for another meeting on Monday, so she and I agreed to move her time with us up to the beginning of the meeting.]

Approval of March Minutes: Fleckenstein

Remembrances: 

            John Kiraly (Education) 1/22/21

            Won Wung Choi (Medicine) 2/2/21

            Paula Kempchinsky (CLAS—Linguistics) 2/28/21

            Ed Hartford (Medicine) 3/24/21

Report on EFC committee assignments:

  • Elections: Gilbert (Chair), Mitros, Hauserman
  • Program: Stoner (Chair), Wanat, Anderson, Fleckenstein
  • Lecture Series: Gilbert (Chair), Gardinier, Gussin (Consultant)
  • Communications/Website: Fleckenstein, Lenth

Report on Liaisons with University committees/organizations: 

Campus planning: Hines, Anderson 

  • FRIC: Shirazi, Valde
  • UIRA: Vlastos, Cobb
  • Research Council: Berman
  • Library: Hauserman, Lenth
  • Faculty Senate/Council: Gardinier, Wanat
  • Hancher: Valde, Shirazi
  • Recreation Services: Atchison
  • Senior College:  Mitros, Wanat
  • Parking and Transportation: Stoner, Mitros
  • President’s Committee on Athletics:  Hines

Old Business: ?

New Business:  UIRA representative at EFC meeting

Next Meeting: May 3, 2021, via Zoom.

Upcoming events: 

Emeritus Faculty Lecture by Tim Barrett (Center for the Book and paper-maker extraordinaire), Wednesday, April 21, 4 p.m., via Zoom.

Emeritus Faculty Lecture, by Christopher Squier, “Famous last gasps: disease and death in opera” Thursday, May 13, 4 pm, via Zoom.

Annual Meeting of the Association of Emeritus Faculty, Wednesday, May 19, 10:00 a.m., via Zoom.   [Alas, no catered lunch, unless Zoom ups its game considerably by then.]