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INVITING FACULTY PARTICIPATION IN THREE BOARD COMMITTEES

WHEREAS, the Board of Visitors wishes to promote closer ties with the faculty and more faculty involvement in the deliberations of the Board, with the aim of the faculty and the Board working together to advance the goals of the University; and

WHEREAS, the Board and the several Chairs of the Faculty Senate over the last few years have enjoyed a close and productive relationship; and

WHEREAS, the Medical Center Operating Board, a Committee of the Board of Visitors, includes Members of the Board of Visitors and members of the faculty, as well as public Members, elected by the Board of Visitors, who serve in a consulting but otherwise fully participating capacity;

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors invites a more formal relationship in which the immediate past Chair of the Faculty Senate each year shall serve a one year term as a consulting, but otherwise fully participating member of the Educational Policy Committee, the External Affairs Committee and the Special Committee on Diversity; and

RESOLVED FURTHER, this arrangement shall become effective on July 1, 2007, with the faculty representative to change each year at the time of the annual change in the leadership of the Faculty Senate.