12. Adjournment: The meeting adjourned at 4:35pm.

• Dr. Peter Smith, Director of the QEP (Quality Enhancement Plan), presented an update on KSU’s QEP. He stated that the QEP/SACS report is being uploaded today, and the SACS consultant Dr. Silver is returning February 26th. The title of the QEP is “Learning That Works,” and it is focused on teaching Design Thinking. The new Humanics (HUM) sequence will be a spring board to permeate the curriculum with Design Thinking methods. We want to have our students graduate with the kinds of skills that employers of the future will be looking for: the skills that cannot be taken over by MLAI (Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence). These will be the invaluable soft skills that only humans possess. Developing these skills is the overall goal of the QEP. Not all employers are committed to upskilling their workers, so they will look for new employees who already possess those skills. Smith stated that he would create a QEP “cheat sheet” for the on-site visit so faculty can respond with knowledge to SACS examiners’ question about the QEP.
• A Senator asked why we are now getting paid every other Friday instead of the 1st and the 15th. She noted that this change has wreaked havoc with employees' automatic bill-payments, which cannot now be tied to a particular monthly date.
• Provost Yates explained that Payroll transitioned to ADP (Automatic Data Processing, Inc.) and their system couldn't handle the 1st/15^{th}$ pay-date structure, so we went to 26 pay periods. Yates stated that he had asked why, also, and never got an answer.
• Another Senator said that the ADP representative had asked if employees wanted to go to one pay period a month. Employees responded no, as 30 days is too long for low-paid workers to go without a paycheck. Considering the two options, the idea was “the more paychecks, the better.”

Minutes respectfully submitted by Helen Smith, Faculty Senate Secretary.