Acts of the Senate, 2025-2026

August 26, 2025

  • Approval of Senate committee replacement nominees: 68 Yes / 0 No / 2 Abstain

September 16, 2025

  • Motion for senators to request feedback from their units regarding the proposed revisions to the Undergraduate Course Load Policy, and that this feedback be discussed at the October Senate meeting: 62 Yes / 2 No / 6 Abstain

October 14, 2025

  • Approval of Senate committee replacement nominee: 64 Yes / 1 No / 4 Abstain

November 11, 2025

  • The 2028-2029 academic calendar was approved: 78 Yes / 2 No / 1 Abstain

  • The First motion for ‘A grievance may be filed by one or more faculty members affected; it may be directed against the action of one or more administrators or other members of the faculty’ be amended to ‘A grievance may be filed by one or more faculty members affected; it may be directed against the action of one or more members of the faculty or administrators’. was passed: 71 Yes / 5 No / 3 Abstain

  • The Second motion for Should a complaint arise from the action of some other party, an administrator could take corrective action, and a grievance may be directed against the administrator’s action or failure to act.’ was passed:  65 Yes / 8 No / 6 Abstain

  • The Third motion For the purposes of faculty grievance, an administrator is someone who holds authority, individually or in conjunction with others, to effect decisions that affect the performance of faculty responsibilities.’ was passed: 68 Yes / 6 No / 6 Abstain

  • The Fourth motion for ‘Interactions with other University committees or processes do not limit or change a faculty member’s right to file a grievance on appropriate grounds.’ was passed: 66 Yes / 8 No / 3 Abstain

January 20, 2026

  • N/A

February 17, 2026

  • The revisions of the Faculty Handbook went through several iterations before being brought to the Senate floor. It was shared that the three aims of the revisions were uniformity in reporting votes and voter participation without compromising confidentiality, clarity in who may participate in drafting the departmental letter, and improving readability of the section of the faculty handbook.

  • There was no discussion of the motion.

  • Voting Results: 67 Yes / 0 No / 6 Abstain

  • The motion carried with the necessary 2/3 majority. 

March 17, 2026

  • Qureshi began by thanking faculty and deans who he had an opportunity to speak with about the motion to raise graduate student stipends. He reminded senators that the motion was targeted toward the institutional minimum stipends. 

  • Voting Results: 56 Yes / 12 No / 7 Abstain 

Secretary Prado shared the names of the three Rules Committee nominees, Peter Panizzi, senator from Drug Discovery and Development; Kerri Muñoz, senator from World Languages, Literatures & Cultures; and Vinicia Biancardi, senator from Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology. She noted that if confirmed the nominees would begin in the next academic year. 

Voting Results:
• Vinicia Biancardi – 74 votes
• Kerri Muñoz – 70 votes
• Peter Panizzi – 72 votes

The three nominees were confirmed to the Rules Committee. 

April 14, 2026

  • N/A

May 12, 2026

  • N/A

June 9, 2026

  • N/A

 

Last updated: 04/15/2026