and meet with the provost about it. Provost Hamilton has agreed to come to one of their meetings.

At this point, Senator Griffiths was recognized, and he pointed out that the Senate was not following the agenda that had been approved earlier, which had consideration of a resolution on the dismissal of Regent Chandee Felder coming after administrative updates. President Clay called for the Curriculum Committee report.

b. Curriculum Committee report [5 minute time limit]

Senator Wang reported that the Curriculum Committee needs a new member. He also brought forward an action item from the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences. The item would remove psychology from the Masters in Interdisciplinary Behavioral Sciences degree program. This is necessary for accreditation purposes. The item was approved without opposition.

Senator Wang also reported that the committee discussed again the problem of getting action from the registrar on past approved action items. They hope to get Provost Hamilton to one of their meetings to hear about that problem. Also at the committee's last meeting Dr. Graves brought a document on program approval to be considered at the next meeting.

c. Professional Concerns Committee report [5 minute time limit]

Senator Stratton reported that the PCC is looking at last year's unfinished business and gathering the new concerns of faculty. Send your concerns to Gary Stratton.

• d.d. Budget and Academic Support Committee report [5 minute time limit} Senator Ballard-Kang reported that Senator McCutchen is working on grants training programs. Dr. Berkley King is coming to our October 8 meeting to talk about that. Senator Kashan has a faculty survey on plus or minus grading options ready to go. All faculty should take the survey when you get it. It is only one question.

Senator Collum has arranged for VP Greg Rush to join us for our September 24 meeting to update us and hear our concerns about the university's financial situation.

Senator Ballard-Kang is working on finding out where course fees are going and trying to get them re-directed to the academic units.

Senator Hannemann noted that an article in the State Journal that morning reported that the percentage of spending on instruction in KSU's budget was down to only 12.8 percent.

Could the BASC look at that and recommend a target percentage for KSU?

Senator Ballard-Kang asked him to send her that report, and the committee would certainly consider that.

9. Other Business [10 minute time limit]

Senator Collum was recognized and asked that the agenda item previously approved be considered now under “Other Business.” At this point, KSU’s General Counsel, Lisa Lang, stated that Kentucky open meetings law prevented an open meeting of the Faculty Senate from discussing personnel matters.

President Clay then asked for a motion to adjourn, but no motion was forthcoming.

Discussion continued, and faculty members attending the meeting raised questions about Ms. Lang's authority to make such a ruling. Another called it a "gag order." It was also