The first regular meeting of the 2019-2020 Faculty Senate will take place on Monday, August 19th, 2019, at 3:10pm in 123 Hathaway Hall.

  1. Call to Order (3:13 pm) (attendance sheets added to the end of document.)
  2. Approval of Agenda [5-minute time limit]
  3. The Board want faculty handbook to be updated. Policies, procedures, and forms need to be updated.
  4. Move to approve agenda, 3:17pm all were in favor.
  5. Approval of Minutes of 4/29/2019 Senate Meeting [5-minute time limit]
  6. Move to approve minutes of 4/29/19, 3:18pm all were in favor.
  7. Dr. Derek Greenfield, Vice President of Student Engagement and Campus Life/Diversity Officer [5-minute time limit]
  8. The One a Month proposal. The office would like the faculty to attend one student event a month. This could be a sporting event, student meeting, or anything that involves the students. Pernella Deams new Dean of Student Conduct.
  9. Erin Gilliam is a faculty working with student engagement and campus life on the One a Month Initiative.
  10. Faculty Senate President Report [15-minute time limit]
  11. Faculty were asked to introduce themselves and their school.
  12. Standing Business will be delegated to committees.
  13. APC: academic calendar refinement, syllabus template needs to be created for whole university
  14. PCC: Scheduling logistics needs to be reviewed; past action items need to be reviewed.
  15. CC:
  16. BASC:
  17. Call for non-senators to serve on committees. Please contact Faculty Senate if you wish to participate on the committees as a non-senator
  18. SACSCOC Update [10 minute time limit]
  19. Bruce Griffiths' notes.

Here is the description of the changes presented at Faculty Senate meeting.

We are happy to say that the Response to the On-Site Committee Report has been submitted for archiving and will be sent to SACSCOC by the end of August. We want to thank all faculty for their time and efforts in gathering documentation for our submission. We appreciate the collegiality and responsiveness as we worked through the response.

Please also share the following SACSCOC policy revisions: Several policies were revised:

A. “Interpretation of Core Requirement 9.3 (General education requirements),”

Revised wording to this requirement was provided to the Executive Council and approved by the Board. It now reads, “Courses in basic composition that do not contain a significant literature component, courses in oral communication, and introductory foreign language courses are skill courses and not pure humanities courses. Therefore, for purposes of meeting this standard, none of the above may be the one course designated to fulfill the humanities/fine arts requirement in CR 9.3.