Leadership

Speaker of the Senate Angie Hill Price represents and leads the Faculty Senate during official actions. She was elected by senators and took the position during the final meeting of the senate’s 41st session on May 13 of this year.

The Executive Committee, a 13-person group that assists in facilitating senate budget, planning and programs initiatives, advises Price in her role. Speaker-elect Andrew Klein, also elected by senators, acts in her absence.

The Executive Committee, which has the power to act for the senate in case of an emergency, met last week after learning of the Board of Regents resolution threatening to force the program eliminations despite senate opposition. On the senate’s behalf, Price and the committee voted preemptively to deny program eliminations the senate was originally meant to review on Nov. 11.

“The EC is concerned that The Board of Regents may not be fully aware of the deeply flawed process and the ramifications of the Provost’s decisions,” Price wrote in her Nov. 5 announcement discussing the emergency action. “We do not oppose the concept of a process, but we vehemently oppose the one that was implemented by the Provost with little consideration of the consequences. Taking these concerns into consideration, the EC voted yesterday to reject the proposed deactivation of the affected minors and certificates and to remove the program inactivations from the Faculty Senate’s consent agenda for November 11.”