The sixth regular meeting of the 2019-2020 Faculty Senate will take place on Monday, November 25th 2019, at 3:10pm in 123 Hathaway Hall. The proposed agenda for the meeting is as follows:

  1. Call to Order
  2. FS meeting was called to order by President Smith at 3:11pm.
  3. Agenda amended to move BASC report earlier, all were in favor of agenda.
  4. Approval of Agenda [5 minute time limit]
  5. Approval of Minutes of 10/28/2019 Senate Meeting [5 minute time limit]
  6. Minutes were approved with a minor amendment. To complete a sentence in the section about distinguished professor conversation.
  7. Faculty Senate President Report [5 minute time limit]
  8. Faculty coordinators might get release time instead of stipend. This issue is being discussed at the Provost level.
  9. Please send information about attendance to President Smith as soon as you can. i. Please provide any information that is vital related to attendance.
  10. Several faculty noted that they have not received group absence emails. President Smith is going to contact Dr. Deams about the process of disseminating those excused absences announcements.
  11. Budget and Academic Support Committee – Phillip Clay [5 minute time limit]
  12. Faculty merit form was discussed and how it might be used for merit pay raises.
  13. Spoke to Paul Cable about classroom survey.
  14. Professional Concerns Committee – Monica Valentine [5 minute time limit]
  15. Senator Batra presented
  16. PCC worked on Section two in faculty handbook. The section is focused on appoint of faculty status upon appointment.
  17. PCC wants to know if the university is following procedures listed in the handbook. Do all university departments follow these procedures is a question the committee is trying to understand. Planning on bringing in a representative from HR in to meeting to discuss.
  18. Needs to work on field of denial of appointment section in handbook, which is a next step in the process.
  19. Academic Policies Committee – Jason Keeler [10 minute time limit]
  20. All in favor of Action Item APC 1920 02,
  21. Increases in number of Honorary Degrees that can be awarded in a given year.
  22. Worked on syllabus template
  23. Worked on
  24. Discussion on ending semester at Thanksgiving. A few interested in the idea. College of Agriculture faulty were skeptical. Several people enjoyed the idea of moving fall break to the beginning of Thanksgiving week.
  25. APC will look into ending semester before Thanksgiving and or moving Fall break to the beginning of Thanksgiving week.
  26. Curriculum Committee – Leigh Whittinghill [15 minute time limit]
  27. Action Item FSCC_19_20_06 (approved all in favor)
  28. BUA 370 changing to BUA 120
  29. Action Item FSCC_19_20_09 (approved all in favor)