2. Approval of Agenda: The agenda was approved without changes.

Approval of Minutes of the 10 December 2018 Faculty Senate Meeting: The minutes were approved without changes.

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

The items approved at the last Senate meeting in December have been approved all the way up through the President's office.

Recently, Moffett and Ombudsman Wilfred Reilly met with Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration/CFO Doug Allen, and they learned some good news about recovering indirect costs [detailed below in the Ombudsman's report]. There is also some good news about pay for area coordinators: conversations with President Brown and Provost Yates on the topic were both positive.

President Brown mentioned a change to the annual faculty evaluation calendar. He would like us to consider moving the process up a bit, so that the meeting between the faculty member and the chair would be completed by January. The faculty member would need to fill out the self-evaluation forms by December. President Brown foresees merit pay becoming a possibility, but for that to happen, we would need to have the evaluations happen early in the year.

The Provost is trying to gather people together to discuss Maymester. Moffett asked Senators to send him or APC Chair Marlin McKay any ideas they have about Maymester

Moffett is still working on updating the Faculty Handbook. He asked Senators to send him departmental benchmarks for their departments, if they know that their benchmarks are not in the Handbook. The Provost has noted that this part of the Handbook is disorganized and in need of revision.

Green Ribbon Report, Phase II: Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Beverly Schneller gave the following report (italicized material is taken from her PowerPoint):

Question: the way evaluations are done currently, the faculty member has to predict ahead of time what they will do. Why don't we have the President back up the calendar year? This way we would be rewarded for what we have already done. Moffett responded that the President's idea is for the new evaluation period to cover the calendar year—from January to December. He has brought this idea to PCC and that PCC Chair Caroline Gibson will be addressing it in her committee.

Question: when will we get a new Committee Book? The Academic Appeals committee has been working without new members, and some members have been serving longer than their allotted time. Moffett replied that the Committee Book usually comes out of Academic Affairs, but that Senators can work with him to get new members on that committee.

Schneller thanked Senate for allowing her to share this information.

The Green Ribbon Relaunch 2019: Dr. Patricia Higgins is the faculty chair, and she and Schneller will co-chair the Green Ribbon 2, which is launching.

First Phase of the Green Ribbon Commission: The first phase was focused on program review: retiring programs, changing programs, evaluating new program options. Schneller and Higgins met with Provost Yates to review the results of Phase 1.

Phase II- Building the Curricular Future: Getting started: looking back at the programs faculty proposed in the Spring 2018. Phase II will be focused on looking at the list of programs identified last March to see if those are still directions we feel comfortable going in. What happened before is that faculty evaluated programs and determined what programs needed change or elimination. Phase II will be looking back at these changes and determining what further changes should be made. The process for staffing the committee has not been formally determined. We'll start by looking at the programs you've already thought about and getting confirmation of what faculty still want to go forward with.