1. Call to Order: The Meeting was called at 3:14pm, with a Quorum.

Approval of Agenda: The Agenda was approved with the removal of line 4 (Travis Haskins, Academic Advisor, had asked to be added to the agenda, but then was unable to attend the meeting.)

Approval of Minutes of the 24 September 2018 Faculty Senate Meeting: Change under item 9: the discussion about the journal access should state that “the library had received a modest funding increase this year, not several years ago. It had been three years since the library had been able to purchase books prior to the increase in funding this year.” The minutes were approved with this one change.

The chair of one committee was asking if they could have previous minutes of past years. Moffett has been spending the last two weeks contacting past secretaries for prior minutes. He is uploading the past minutes as part of the Senate digital archive.

There are vacancies for key committees. He has convened a standing Elections Committee, which will meet this week and get elections for these positions going.

The Chair of the Ad Hoc Senate Committee on the Academic Reorganization is Cindy Glass. This committee met last Wednesday. Members are going to talk to faculty in each unit and to deans.

Faculty Regent Elgie McFayden asked if the University Tenure and Promotion Committee has been elected. He stated that the membership has been unfair. A senator responded that it is an elective process; all committees have representation. Moffett then projected on the screen the University Committee Book, which explains how the University T & P Committee members are elected by the faculty at large for a term of two years. There is currently a vacancy from library and comp/bus sciences that needs to be filled.

Provost Yates had attended their last meeting. The committee discussed adding mini-mesters to the academic calendar: two eight week semesters, a winter term, an Extreme Spring Break weeklong term, a May-mester, and two summer terms. The committee voted for these terms, and McKay will present them as an Action Item at the next Senate meeting.

Rising junior assessment dates were also approved: November 14th and 15th and in April. An Action Item on this will also be presented to Senate at the next session.

Moffett asked McKay when the new sessions will start. McKay said this winter. Moffett asked McKay about the feasibility of an “extreme week.” McKay replied that his committee just determined the feasibility of these terms vis-à-vis the academic calendar, and he directed other questions to the Provost and Deputy Provost. The way the extreme week was presented to his committee is that if a student is passing a course—for instance, a math course—but has a problem with one concept—for instance, polynomials—the student and teacher could cover that issue in the extreme week. This term will start with a pilot of one or two courses. McKay noted that the committee didn’t have data or information about how such courses were working at other institutions.

A Senator asked about summer: will it be the two 8-week terms, or will it be two 8-week terms and one longer term? McKay responded that all APC is over is whether these courses will fit into the academic calendar, but he opined that it would seem less complicated just to have the two eight-week terms.