upon completion of the terminal degree, a faculty member should be given a one-time stipend. President Keeler suggested that the stipend could be set at five percent of median base pay for assistant professors (the median of all people in that rank at KSU in all colleges, schools and divisions).

Generally positive reaction was expressed by senators, and President Keeler said he would table the motion, edit it based on the ideas just expressed and bring it back in the future.

President Keeler said that he had not seen a Spring 2021 calendar from the provost, and Dr. Schneller said she had not either. However, Dr. Tierra Freeman Taylor said she did have one, and forwarded it to President Keeler. This calendar showed classes beginning January 19 and commencement scheduled for May 7. It still has Presidents' Day and Good Friday as holidays. Wintermester remains the same as in past years. Discussion from senators focused on the problem of the Presidents' Day holiday working against our need to keep students from traveling and risking spread of the coronavirus. Senators also pointed out that the calendar created a gap between the end of Wintermester and the start of Spring semester, which would also needlessly force students to leave campus and return. President Keeler said he would take up both of these issues with the provost.

Dr. Schneller reported that the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) virtual site visit happened last Friday. The purpose was for COPLAC visitors to see how KSU could contribute to COPLAC. The visit and the briefing that followed went well. We should be getting a decision on our membership within two weeks. Benefit of COPLAC membership for KSU would be a new group of like-minded institutions to serve as peers for benchmarking as well as scholarship and publication opportunities for our students. There is also a COPLAC online consortium that would allow KSU