Einstein Senate

Council Meeting: Wednesday, November 3, 2010

FINAL

PRESENT: Drs. Allen Spiegel, Jeffrey Segall, Stephen Baum, Robert Burk, Donald Faber, Todd Olson, Ellie Schoenbaum, Vern Schramm, Elyse Sussman, Elizabeth Walker

EXCUSED: Erika Banks, John Blanchard, Jonathan Warner

ABSENT:

GUEST: Ms. Shelly Motzkin

The minutes were approved.

At the November 24 combined Science and Chairs meeting, the current awards committee and an awards nomination committee will be discussed.

LCME – we are fully accredited through the next site visit. Will continue to work on some followup questions.

The issue of the Prudential contributions to lobbyists was extensively discussed. Michael Bloom emailed Prudential regarding this and he provided a response from Prudential regarding their contributions to trade associations claiming that the contributions are not made for pursuit of a particular agenda. There was not much enthusiasm for pursuing this.

The meeting adjourned at 3:50 p.m.

 

Respectfully submitted,
Jeffrey E. Segall, Ph.D.
Speaker, Einstein Senate