Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

The fourth regular meeting of the 2019-2020 Faculty Senate will took place on Monday, October 7th, 2019, at 3:10pm in 123 Hathaway Hall. The minutes for the meeting are as follows:

  1. Call to Order
  2. Approval of Agenda [5 minute time limit]
  3. Approval of Minutes of 9/23/2019 Senate Meeting [5 minute time limit]
  4. Mr. Arlen Sims, Assistant to V.P. Special Student Engagement [5 minute time limit]
  5. Faculty Senate President Report [5 minute time limit]
  6. Budget and Academic Support Committee – Phillip Clay [10 minute time limit]
  7. Academic Policies Committee – Jason Keeler [10 minute time limit]
  8. Professional Concerns Committee – Monica Valentine [10 minute time limit]
  9. Curriculum Committee – Leigh Whittinghill [15 minute time limit]
  10. President Smith called meeting to order at 3:13 pm
  11. Motion was made to approve agenda as amended, all were in favor.
  12. Motion was made to approve senate minutes from 9/23/2019, all were in favor
  13. Food Bank on campus. 4th floor of the student center. Form for students to fill out on third floor. 3-5 Tuesday/Thursday, and 1-3 Friday. Need donations. Flyer was handed out in the meeting. Best place to drop off is the office Student center 320. The students can apply to receive items on Wired Account.
  14. Two minutes were added for discussion (all were in favor)
  15. The school of agriculture will try to get involved in some way or form, and Dr. Andres volunteered to be a Liason between the BRED Basket and School of ag
  16. Travel fund reminder. Next deadline is 16th of October. Then the following will be the 12th of November.
  17. Encourage students to attend Founders Day Convocation. Faculty will need to be there in full academic regalia.
  18. Having conversation with President Brown 10/22, please email Dr. Smith with any conversation points you wish her to discuss with Dr. Brown.
  19. Discussed faculty pay and asked for copy of slides from Encampment and State of the University Address.
  20. Trying to discuss future salary planning
  21. Redoing classroom features survey. Committee has contacted Paul Cable to discuss facilities further.
  22. Committee continued working on syllabus template. Ken Semmens is holding a meeting Lauren Graves to get guidance on template for committee.
  23. The committee is working on a 5 year academic calendar for the university.
  24. Committee brought forth an Action Item to formally adopt the mini-mesters to the academic calendar including winter-mester (online only), May-mester, two 4 week summer sessions, and two 8-week sessions per fall and spring semester, which will run congruently with the typical 15 week semester.
  25. Action item voted on and approved all were in favor.
  26. Looked into language of job duties of coordinator and looked at tracking documents that have been moved before and comparing them to the handbook.