Quick report on yesterday's open Faculty Forum with the President. Not much to report, only 4 faculty attended (including me) and all were members of the Senate Exec committee. President Haynes was gracious, as ever, and stayed to hear our concerns which were primarily about the budget process and about how the system is planning (oxymoron?) to deal with near term realities. I want to thank her and Matt Ceppi for taking time out of what are very busy schedules to come talk with us.

I think the sentiments in the comments which followed an earlier email announcement of this forum are shared widely; hence, perhaps, the low attendance.

Three AA administrators also attended -- which is fine, they are nice people with good questions, the more the merrier and we would never ask them to leave or kick them out. But it does beg a question about many meetings administrators have which faculty are not welcome at or never hear of (even if the fate of faculty is being discussed) . If you look at the Constitution and By-Laws of the Senate, all our committees are inclusive in various ways in that they invite students, administrators and some staff to attend. Indeed the ONLY meeting that the Senate holds in a normal week to which no administrators are invited is the 30 minute agenda-setting meeting that Senate officers hold each week to (duh!) put the agenda together for the next Senate Exec and/or Senate meeting.