At the first meeting of the 2013-14 Urbana-Champaign Senate, members elected three new University Senates Conference representatives and four new members to the Senate Executive Committee.

The senate elected Prasanta Kalita, Gay Miller and William Maher to serve on the conference through 2016. The three will join seven other members of the conference. Matthew Wheeler was selected to be the conference’s delegate to the Senate Executive Committee.

The senate also selected three committee chairs to serve on the Senate Executive Committee: Harry Hilton, of the Equal Opportunity and Inclusion Committee; Pat Gill, of the Student Discipline Committee; and Michel Bellini, of Public Engagement and Institutional Advancement.

Since it was the first meeting of the new senate, senators received a lesson on parliamentary procedure from senate parliamentarian Ken Andersen. Chancellor Phyllis Wise also explained the senate’s importance to campus, calling the body “absolutely essential to shared governance.”

The senate was also informed that Roy Campbell was elected to serve as SEC chair for the next academic year, while Kim Graber was elected vice chair.

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