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Minutes for the full faculty meeting on 2/27/2017 will be reviewed at the next full faculty meeting according to VPAA Jackson.
4. Faculty Senate President Report
a. Presidential Search / Board of Regents meeting
Faculty Senate President Sipes discussed the Board of Regents meeting last week. A new regent, Ron Banks, was sworn in and the Board voted 7-3 to offer the position of president to Dr. Brown.
b. Status of the vote of no confidence on the Board of Regents
President Sipes noted that for the second motion at the 2/27 meeting, among the first 16 votes were possibly 2 that were ineligible, and so those were set aside and Dr. Jackson provided the Registrar with a list of individuals who needed to revote. Those revotes will take place Monday, 3/20 and Tuesday, 3/21.
c. Completion of the vote of no confidence on the board chair, March 22-23.
Depending on the outcome of the revote, the second motion may be added to the first for a vote on Wednesday, 3/22 and Thursday, 3/23. All votes will be by secret ballot administered in the Registrar's office.
5. Report of the Academic Policies Committee – Joe Moffett
Vice Chair Kumar had run APC’s last meeting in Chair Moffett’s absence. The committee sent forward 16-17.05 Administrative Withdrawal. Chair Moffett explained that this proposed policy could be used to strengthen the conversation between faculty and the Office of Educational Support. Many students persist on class rosters when they have stopped coming to class or have ceased to submit assignments. This policy would start a process that would attempt to get students back in class and delivering work. If a student didn’t respond, then the policy could save student GPAs from unearned Fs which might impact a student’s eligibility for financial aid. The Registrar asked if this proposed policy would interfere or overlap with her office’s current reporting. Chair Moffett said he didn’t think it would since its purpose would be to intervene with students and only when such intervention were unsuccessful to move on to withdrawing a student from a course.
A motion to add 10 minutes passed unanimously.
Dr. Erin Wheeler was asked if this policy would work. She said that she thought it would be helpful since it would formalize the efforts between her office and faculty. Documenting student cases would be important and EAB could be used for that purpose. She noted it might also help her office reinforce the importance of class attendance.