• Title III funds are back in at KSU, as of October 1st. Travel reimbursements for faculty should again be available. Mario Radford is no longer the Title III Coordinator; that role has not yet been filled. All T3 questions should be addressed to Nikki McZee for now.
  • The first meeting between himself, Senate President Moffett and Deputy Provost Kim Sipes occurred two weeks ago. One issue that came up during the meeting was the role and value of the Area Coordinators in terms of the Return on Investment of that position. All of the Coordinators have been asked to defend the value of the position to justify compensation. It was mentioned that it would be very useful to have a one-page description of the Coordinator role for every department to clarify what the Coordinator does. The duties and compensation of the Coordinators across campus vary greatly. PCC is working on putting together a list of duties. Reilly asked faculty to contact PCC or him if they would like to give information about Coordinator duties; if we want to win an argument for pay for that position, we need to delineate what the role is about.
  • Reilly's next meeting with University President Brown is at 3pm tomorrow; he asked faculty to let him know if they would like him to address any issues with the President.
  • Reilly noted that he is also a member of the Reorganization Committee, but that Chair Cindy Glass might be a better person to consult about details of that committee.
  • A Senator noted that this issue of Coordinators started about 2005/06, but that he had no records of that discussion. Reilly agreed that the issue is important and has a long history.
  • Another Senator stated that graduate students currently have no health insurance, which is an issue.
  • A Senator asked if Reilly could address with the President the issue of when there would be tutors in the ACE tutoring center. Reilly responded that this issue was already on the agenda.
  • Another Senator asked when the mold issue in Exum is going to be addressed. The mold is taking over classrooms and moving toward office space. Reilly said he’d take that up with the President. Another Senator said that this mold was the same reason that Chapelle and Atwood were shut down.
  • 11. Other Business:
  • A Senator said he has not been able to locate Interfolio to upload documents, and he asked about the status of Interfolio. Moffett responded that the 30th was the mandatory deadline for faculty to upload their information. Several senators agreed that there were problems with Interfolio. A Senator said that the Administration sent out an email with the link to Interfolio, but that you have to be careful not to go into the development site. Another Senator said that when she input information line by line, it didn't save. Moffett said that he hasn't heard anything from Academic Affairs about this. They should know that there were these problems, and he will let Senators know if he hears anything from AA. A Senator said that the problem with these upload issues is that our COLA money is being held up on account of this. The Ombudsman responded that he will raise this issue with the President in his meeting. Moffett noted that they are supposed to put the Interfolio link on the KSU website.
  • 12. Adjournment: The meeting adjourned at 4:45pm.

Respectfully submitted by Helen Smith, Faculty Senate Secretary.