On July 19, SACUA held its annual planning retreat and discussed the following issues for the 2005-06 academic year:

General Issues and Topics for Committees and Senate Assembly

•  Revisions to the conflict of interest policies as well as the new conflict of commitment policy (e.g., SACUA model for faculty in each Unit)

• Possible establishment of a faculty code of conduct  

• The importance of tenure and flexible tenure (review of flexible tenure document)  

Governance Issues

• Criteria-based shared governance proposal  
              o  Alternative proposal being to rework or add to the blue book

• Transparency of faculty governance at the unit level, including
                o Authority and make-up of executive committees
              o  Procedures for changing school bylaws  

• Tenure track/non-tenure track faculty issues (growth, ratios, etc.)  
              o  Non-tenure track faculty participation in governance   

• Increased faculty governance awareness and participation (related both to individual units and faculty members)

Evaluation Procedures

• Formal review of student course evaluation content and handling  

• Faculty evaluation of administrators and other AEC issues  

• Grade inflation, grade reporting and changing, and registration brackets;

Faculty Life Issues

• Junior faculty support;  

• Quality of life for faculty including parking, childcare, etc.  

• Changes to benefits (healthcare, retirees, drug benefits, etc.)

Student Life Issues

•  Financial aid (distribution of scholarship funds)  

• Student quality of life and academic priorities during times of budget crisis 

•  Foreign student issues