1. 9. Budget and Academic Support Committee – Phillip Clay: Vice Chair Ken Andries gave the report in Clay's absence, reporting the following:
  2. The committee talked with Dr. Stashia Emanuel about etexts. Dr. Emanuel explained that:
  3. Ms. Sheila Stuckey from the library was also a guest at the meeting. Members of the Agriculture, Communities and the Environment Division had asked BASC about access to Science Direct, an online source for scientific journal articles. There has been a concern about not having the ability to download journals. The committee investigated whether faculty could use Science Direct to download articles. An institution can pay for 100-200 downloads at a time. The ACE Division did go ahead and subscribe for 100 downloads (at $30 per download). One person administers faculty/student access to Science Direct to make sure there is no other free way to access the journal article needed.
  4. Chair Clay was able to obtain minutes for many previous years' BASC meetings.
  5. There is interest among faculty for doing a survey to identify rooms and facilities in each building that need upgrading. For instance, a room might have a chalk board only, or a projector but no cord, or no uniformity among plugs, etc. And how many students does each classroom accommodate? Apparently, there has been no such survey previously.
  6. The committee has invited Provost Yeats and Vice President of Finance Allen to speak to attend a future meeting soon about details of the Instructional Budget.
  7. KSU adopted etexts to address the student-text costs.
  8. The Pearson Contract is under review.
  9. Fall 2019 textbook options are being investigated.
  10. ➢ She does not anticipate the same Bb-Pearson etext integration problems.
  11. Instructors have an option to teach without the book – to instead use case studies, for instance.
  12. There is some money available for non-Pearson texts. Faculty should approach the Provost to ask about this.
  13. Faculty can use OpenStax to get books.
  14. November 1 is the spring textbook adoption deadline.
  15. A Senator pointed out that the Registrar might have a list of the number of seats in classrooms.

Another Senator noted that what's in one room one semester might not be in the same room another semester. Another Senator said that IT does not address the issue of projectors and wires. They also don't do anything with Apple products. Another Senator added that our etext contract is $185 per student enrolled on campus, but one student may not have any etexts in any class, another may have several etexts.

2 minutes were added to discussion.

  • A Senator asked if the BASC committee could address the timely movement of documents among departments for business processes. Applications are missing deadlines because forms move slowly across campus to completion. He stated that KSU should never have to give back money to the federal government because of a missed grant deadline. Andries agreed that there are issues with the pace of form-processing. Dr. Pomper noted that he has met with Allen, who he says is open to changing processes to streamline them.
  • 10. Faculty Ombudsman Report: Ombudsman Wilfred Reilly reported the following: