Have Institutional Advancement pay for itself according to a percentage of the funds they raise or outsource fundraising. Focus fundraising on large corporations and the wealthy with a history of supporting HBCUs or higher education.
Sell the naming rights to our stadium and new dormitory; offer advertising space for “sponsors” for the electronic sign at the front gate.
Ask the Alumni Association to put out a special appeal to their members to “help save KSU.”
Begin a fundraising campaign to institute several endowed professorships (again, offering naming rights to major donors or allowing donors to vote on the name of a beloved past professor). Move the most qualified existing faculty into the endowed positions and return their salaries to the budget.
Institute an aggressive planned giving campaign, urging alumni and supporters of the University to remember KSU in their wills.
Attendance policy was the main business of the last meeting. An action item on this will be coming at the next Senate meeting. Committee is also working on an internship policy and clarifying the state of the incomplete grade policy.
Multiple action items were presented from the English program. These are course change, new course or course deletion proposals needed to pave the way for an overall program revision that will be presented at the next meeting.
ENG 322 Survey of British Literature I changed to British Literary Roots, with a corresponding catalogue description change.
ENG 324 Survey of American Literature I changed to American Multiethnic Literature, with catalogue description change.
ENG 409 Literature of African Americans changed to African American Literature
ENG 413 Literary Criticism changed to Literary Theory and Criticism.
Course Deletions: ENG 323 Survey of British Literature II and ENG 325 Survey of American Literature II. These are no longer needed because ENG 322 and ENG 324 are becoming single-semester surveys.
New Courses: ENG 220 Introduction to Cultural Studies
ENG 417 Comparative Mythology
ENG 419 Literature of Crime and Punishment
ENG 425 Digital Writing and Rhetoric