To: All Faculty <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Vernon Burton, Senate Executive Committee Chair" <ovburton@uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: damrau@uiuc.edu

 Subject: MASSMAIL - Report of the SEC Global Campus Task Force

November 27, 2006

Dear Colleagues:

The administration is proposing a Global Campus (GC) now scheduled to be 
presented at the January 18 Board of Trustees meeting.  Faculty need 
either to endorse or to register their reservations about the proposed 
Global Campus.  This is very important for the future of the University. 
We must act now.  

This summer, when we received the proposal for the Global Campus, the 
Senate Executive Committee (SEC) established a Global Campus Task Force to 
help develop the campus response to the plan.  The Senate Executive 
Committee Task Force has made their recommendations in a very thoughtful 
report at www.senate.uiuc.edu/sc0704.asp.  (This link is to the cover 
letter; you will have to follow the link within the cover letter for the 
full GC Task Force report.)  The GC proposal, the Task Force response and 
recommendations, and a number of information items (including a video of 
the faculty campus meeting with President Joe White and special 
presidential assistant Chet Gardner) will all be available at the Senate 
Web site www.senate.uiuc.edu.  

The UIUC Senate will vote whether to endorse the recommendations of the 
Senate Executive Committee Task Force on the Global Campus at the Senate 
meeting next week, Monday, December 4, 3:10 p.m. at Levis Faculty Center

Before that vote, the Senate would like your input.  Please read the 
report and contact your senator with your viewpoint.  You are also welcome 
to email us (senate@uiuc.edu) about your response and suggestions to the 
Global Campus.  And, of course, all are welcome, indeed encouraged, to 
attend the meeting on December 4.

Best regards,
Vernon Burton, 
SEC Chair
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The Office of the Chancellor

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