The Provost*s ad hoc committee on personnel issues met on June 2nd to
discuss the draft of its report, and we will meet again before the end
of the month to finalize our recommendations.

I continue to represent the Senate at meetings regarding the Graduate
School and its new duties and structure. Most recently, the committee
has been working with Graduate Council to rewrite the Graduate School
by-laws; those of you on the Graduate Faculty had the opportunity to
review those by-laws and vote on them electronically at the end of last
month. After they were passed by those Graduate Faculty who voted, our
Redbook committee reviewed those by-laws, which are available for your
review at
https://docushare.louisville.edu/dscgi/ds.py/View/Collection-1963
The Senate has no Redbook jurisdiction over unit by-laws, but has
agreed, per changes to our own by-laws, to review unit by-laws for
faculty welfare issues. Redbook identified several issues, including
the definition of faculty and the population of decanal search and
review committees. We bring this to the Senate as an information item
only.

Recently, I was asked by a dean for the ethics statement passed by this
body and referenced in the Student Handbook under Non-Academic Grievance
Procedures: *Faculty professional misconduct is conduct by a faculty
member which violates the statement on professional ethics adopted by
the Faculty Senate.* Since it took some digging in the archives by
the erstwhile Gretchen Henry to uncover this document, I asked the XC to
review it. It was passed by the Senate in the Spring of 1987 and
presented to the Board of Trustees in November, 1987 as *the official
University of Louisville Statement of Ethics.* On the recommendation
of the XC, I will move that the Senate reaffirm this Statement of Ethics
at our June meeting, and we will thereafter post it on our website and
ask that it be posted on the Provost*s website.

The Board of Trustees met on May 8 and voted on the tuition increase
recommended by the tuition-setting committee and endorsed by this body.
The Board also voted on some changes to tuition remission for spouses,
and we approved a number of programs and centers which were already
reviewed by the Senate. The full agenda is available at
http://louisville.edu/president/trustees/agenda/may08/fullboard/index.html
and I*ll be happy to answer questions you might have.

COSFL did not meet again this month.

Respectfully submitted,

Beth Boehm

Beth A. Boehm
Professor and
Vice Chair of English
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
502-852-6590
beth.boehm@louisville.edu