• Our Coordinator-Survey is open through Friday 12/14.
• oA Senator noted that he has heard that we have only two or three officers on campus; he asked if that is correct. Another PCC member replied that this is also what he had heard, but he wanted to get confirmation from the Chief before bringing any such information to the Senate. Senators with concerns were invited to attend the meeting.
• oA Senator noted that the survey is too long. Other senators concurred. Moffett noted that members of the committee felt that it was important to get as much information as possible. The survey is important because we will be able to use the data to help argue for pay for coordinators.

8. Academic Policies Committee – Marlin McKay: Chair McKay reported on the following items:

• Dual Credit semester grade due dates will be added to the Academic Calendar. DC grades will be due by the same date as KSU grades are due.
• Faculty and staff calendar alignment: both employee groups need to have the same holidays due to confusion about when students have classes or not.
• Teacher evaluations: currently they are digitally administered. Faculty are getting minimal to zero feedback from students on their courses. Students are providing feedback only when teachers offer grades or extra credit for doing evaluations, which is not a good idea. This lack of student-response also has an impact on faculty going up for Tenure and Promotion. The committee is working on an Action Item to reinstate physical evaluations that are done in class in writing.
• Possible Academic Calendar Revision: Some have raised the idea of having the semester end at Thanksgiving break. The committee will poll the faculty about whether they think this is a viable option.
• Academic Affairs wants decisions about the calendar to be finalized at a faster rate. They are offering assistance. Initially, they offered to take it away from APC, but the senate president responded that faculty need to be involved in the process.
• oA Guest asked, if staff get off days that faculty do not, how will they be making up the days that faculty will lose? Moffett responded that last year, the President gave staff two extra days off each semester. The idea is that faculty would take the same days off as the staff. McKay added that there were logistical problems when faculty taught when staff was off.
• oA Guest asked, would that mean Spring term would end early as well? McKay replied that the committee had discussed this possibility: rather than coming for Encampment, faculty would start classes during Encampment week. We’d start earlier and end earlier, closer to when the K-12 schools end. This would also help with October – i.e. we could move Fall Break to Thanksgiving week.
• oA Senator asked, 1s Academic Affairs taking over the academic calendar? McKay replied, no. Moffett added that Academic Affairs had asked merely if they could have a role to play in the creation of the calendar. The Senator replied that their role is played when the calendar developed by faculty goes to their office for approval.