1. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 3:13pm, with quorum.

Approval of Agenda: The agenda was approved without changes.

Approval of Minutes of the 26 November 2018 Faculty Senate Meeting: The minutes were approved without changes.

Faculty Senate President Report: President Joe Moffett reported on the following items:

There was a board meeting Thursday. Moffett shared with board members what the Senate has been doing. He shared our work on the QEP and the Senate Committees. The board seemed to be favorably impressed.

All action items that Senate has approved to date now have approval all the way up to the President. Thus, we now have a clean slate.

Moffett has been working with Swagata Banerjee, chair of APC and Caroline Gibson, chair of PCC on the faculty handbook. He asked senators to let him know if they have any suggestions for updates, removals and other revision suggestions/ideas regarding the handbook.

5. Faculty Regent Report: Faculty Regent Elgie McFayden reported on the following items:

In the last year or so, everything that has happened at board meetings is published on the website.

CPE has required KSU produce a report card; it was submitted by President Brown at the last board meeting. The Report Card listed fall enrollment, retention numbers, etc. We are in a great position for performance-based funding in the future. We have to position ourselves well to do well in that process. One area of concern on the report card was fall-to-fall retention. The President explained that the students who were not allowed to return displayed a record that indicated it was highly unlikely that they would have succeeded – they would not have helped our graduation rate.

The administration did not make any new administrative appointments but changed titles of some positions. No new salary-money was allocated.

We have to improve our DFW rates.

The board approved termination of the Pearson Contract.

The administration mentioned that customer service is still a problem on this campus. That is not on the faculty side, for the most part.

The board approved two enrollment management contracts together. One augments the other.

Moffett asked, 112 students were asked not to come back? McFayden answered yes, 112 were not allowed to return, primarily for academic reasons.

Moffett asked McFayden about the two contracts for enrollment management. McFayden explained that there is a company that will have at least 7-10 “touches” (contacts with students) that will put our applications in front of students. The company will follow up until the potential student goes from admitted to enrolled. This contract frees up those folks who want to focus on recruitment to do so. We retain the data if we break the contract. The other contract augments the main one