Faculty Senate Budget & Academic Support Committee Minutes (Approved) Dec. 5, 2016 3:20 Convened 100 Shauntee Hall Members Present: Reba Rye (Senator-At-Large) Chair; Vikas Kumar (AQU); Rene Desborde (BUA); Mike Unuakhalu (CS); Peter Smith (LLP)
Members Absent With Notice: Li Lu (Math/Sci), LeChrista Finn (AFE-non-Senator) Members Absent Without Notice: Sunday Obi (EDU-non-Senator), William Graham (HPER)
Call to Order – Chair Rye
Nov. 7, 2016 minutes were approved with no corrections.
The BASC reviewed and compared the “Current Employee Lists with Salaries”, organized by home origin and generated on 02-05-16 and 10-01-16. Analysis of these documents will inform the Budget Resolution that BASC will continue to develop, update and present early next semester for Senate consideration in advance of the FY17-18 budget development. One area of specific concern is instances of selective administrative and upper level staff raises while faculty promotion continues to be ‘suspended’. With inclusion of FY16-17, promotion has been suspended five of the past ten years for faculty. We are also looking at the number and cost of administrative positions that are calculated and reported under Academic Affairs as money spent on Instruction. ($13,267,500 of $46,965,600 or 28%). The Registrar’s office is listed under Academic Affairs ($289,300). This is a common practice.
Chair Rye again requested a meeting of the full committee with President Thompson since a previous scheduled meeting had to be cancelled. It would be useful to accomplish this before the BASC finalizes and submits the Budget Resolution.
Adjourn: approximately 4:15 pm
Minutes submitted by – Reba Rye, Chair