1. 1. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 3:11pm, with quorum.
  2. Approval of Agenda: An item was added to allow Vice Provost Beverly Schneller five minutes to share information on the SACS accreditation process. With this addition, the agenda was approved.
  3. Approval of Minutes of the 28 January 2019 Faculty Senate Meeting: The minutes were approved without changes.
  4. SACS Update: Dr. Schneller explained that the Focused Report (the response to the SACS off-site report on KSU) is in the final stages. The next step in the process involves the return of Dr. Silver, our SACS consultant, on February 25th. He and his team will be conducting a mock site-visit, which will give us the experience of what the real on-site SACS team will be asking us. This team will give us a schedule and request to see faculty/administrators – the call will be for Feb 26th. Schneller told faculty that if they have a class or another conflict, they need to set aside an hour for Dr. Silver’s team. It will probably be 30 minutes or less. They will ask faculty/administrators questions about topics they will expect us to know about; for example, for chairs, they might ask about the coherence of their academic program, etc. The important thing is to be succinct in answering and honest and to stick to the subject at hand. If respondents present information that may be perceived as ambiguous, the review committee might see a red flag and feel the need to follow up. The team will not be coaching people but preparing them to showcase the life of the institution and student success. The mock site-visit will be held in the Agriculture Extension Conference Room: 238 Co-op building. The actual SACS site visit is March 19-21st.
  5. 5. Faculty Regent Report: Regent Elgie McFayden reported on the following issues:
  6. There was a Board of Regents meeting last week. The members didn’t conduct regular business. There were three actions items. The first was to do away with the Xerox contract and initiate the Ricoh contract. The other significant action item was to approve the contract for the new football coach.
  7. 6. Curriculum Committee: Chair Leigh Whittinghill reported on the following issues:
  8. Senate President Joe Moffett asked if the Xerox contract had been a longtime issue. McFayden replied that for the students it was an issue; they made it known to the President that there were problems with students getting mail and printing. He added that Ricoh is the same company that UK uses and that the state government in Frankfort uses, so there will be Ricoh representatives in town who can come service the machines, as opposed to Xerox, which is based in Lexington.
  9. Moffett asked if McFayden anticipated any significant issues to be raised at the next regular meeting. McFayden did not respond.
  10. FSCC 18-19-22 Course changes for JOU 302 and 402: This action item involves changes to two courses in Journalism which were previously run as a sequence, but now each is one credit hour and can be repeated. Each iteration of the course will have a different topic, following students through their progress in the major. Mr. David Shabazz, Associate Chair of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts, stated that JOU 302 is designed to be a practical class for newspaper staff students, while 402 is for the editors, who have a little bit more responsibility.

VOTE: voice vote: unanimous yes with no abstentions.

  • FSCC 18-19-23 New Program Masters in Counseling Psychology: This action item involves the creation of a graduate-level track in the existing Masters program. All the courses in this track have already been created, and six have already been taught. Dr. Mara Merlino, Professor of Behavioral and Social