Memorandum

1 December 2004

To: Jeff Jordan, Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee

From: James Brophy, Dept. of History, Continental European Studies

Re: Resolution to petition for postponement of review

On 26 November I petitioned the Faculty Senate for a postponement of Continental European Studies’ review for permanent status until next year. This request lies not with any problem of this small program. Rather, the need for a postponement lies in the oversight of the director and his misreading of deadlines. In a memorandum last year, the Faculty Senate notified me to submit my materials for review by 1 December 2004. It is this date that I grasped, but I did not apprehend the memo’s subsequent instruction that my material must first make its way through other committees of the College of Arts and Sciences. Hence, when I began to collect my data and write my report in November, I realized that my paperwork needed to be submitted much earlier to my College. For this reason, I submit the following resolution:

Whereas, the Director of Continental European Studies believed that 1 December 2004 was the deadline for submitting materials for this program’s permanent status; and whereas, the materials should have been submitted much earlier in the semester to the Committee of Educational Affairs of the Senate of the College of Arts and Sciences; and whereas, this mistake lies in an administrative error that has no bearing on the quality and future of Continental European Studies; and whereas, all those involved in the fledgling program see an auspicious future with this area-studies major;

Therefore, be it resolved that the University Senate delay its review of CES for permanent status until next year.

Hence, Continental European Studies asks that Senate allow the program to submit its materials in a timely and proper fashion in the fall of 2005 and carry the matter forward in a standard administrative manner.