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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

April 22, 2022

Submitted by Danny Collum, Senate Secretary

Call to Order

Meeting was called to order with a quorum present at 9:04 a.m.

Approval of Agenda

Agenda was approved as submitted without opposition.

Approval of Minutes

Minutes of the April 8, 2022 Senate meeting were approved unanimously.

Faculty Senate President's Report President Phillip Clay

Franklin County is in the Green (low risk) zone for COVID 19 spread. Contact points for COVID-19 information are: 855-598-2246 and COVID19@kysu.edu. There have been no meetings with provost, SGA or Executive Committee since the last report. President Clay will meet with Acting President Stamps April 28.

Student evaluations are open, as is pre-registration for Maymester, Summer and Fall. Graduation is May 13.

Faculty Regent Report Regent Herman Walston

The Board of Regents meets Wednesday at 10 a.m. It will be an open meeting with a Zoom link to come in campus email.

General Education Update Professor Bruce Griffiths

All faculty teaching general education classes need to be sure to have an assessment plan with artifacts to assess. Contact Professor Griffiths is there are questions about this. Forthcoming from CPE, we will be needing to document how CPE's 10 Essential Skills pervade our General Education program. We will need to show where we are doing this, document it, and fill in any gaps.

Dual Credit Update Dr. Kristopher Grimes

Dr. Grimes reported that he’s visiting schools and signing them up for fall. Three have reached out to KSU to start Dual Credit in their schools. The priority is to get more Dual Credit students to become degree-seeking KSU students. Data so far shows that we are getting very little enrollment from Dual Credit students. What we are getting is mostly from Frankfort and Franklin County.

Faculty Senate Committee Reports

Academic Policy Committee. Senator Kristopher Grimes

An attendance policy is in progress.

Curriculum Committee Senator Changzheng Wang

No meeting and no report.

Professional Concerns Committee Senator Gary Stratton

The committee is working with the provost and Dr. Thompson of CPE regarding the suspended tenure and promotion process. The committee has also communicated with facilities about trash and HVAC issues in some buildings. Issues flagged for next year's committee include a process for setting adjunct pay. From various senators came suggestions that PCC should examine the awarding of credit toward tenure and promotion for work at other institutions and the place of Dual Credit in load calculation for full-time faculty.

Budget and Academic Support Committee Senator Jennifer Ballard-Kang

BASC has invited Interim CFO Shields to our next meeting, and he will attend. Anyone who wants to join that meeting should email Jennifer Ballard-Kang.

Other Business

On behalf of the Faculty Elections Committee, Dr. Ballard-Kang noted that nominations are needed for Faculty Senate at large representative, University Tenure and Promotion Committee, the Post-Tenure Review Committee, and the Faculty Recognition Committee. Questions were raised by senators about the accuracy of the current committee rosters for some of these. Other senators questioned whether we should even elect a Tenure and Promotion Committee for next year since tenure has been suspended by the provisions of HB 250. Senators noted that the Faculty Senate Executive Committee should consider these questions.

Adjournment

The Faculty Senate adjourned at 10:19 a.m.

Attendance

Senators

Jens Hannemann

Barbara Witty