Journal has published salaries of KSU employees, which is some of the information we have been trying to attain. The BASC will follow-up on both action items and adjust them accordingly. The committee also discussed the issue of CAPS vs faculty advisement of Freshmen. The consensus is that faculty are best informed and qualified to advise and register students for their specific degrees and a proposal needs to go up to recommend financial compensation if that occurs outside of their 9 month contracts, during summer orientation for example. The Committee will look on this in more detail in the Spring semester and request the PCC to work on it with us. The External Audit should be available in January. The BASC needs to be able to take part in budgetary proceedings earlier in spring and have seats throughout process. While the reported percentage of the total budget on Instruction is up to 23.9%, (from 18%-20%) the total budget is down, Instruction included. It is not clear what the administration classifies as Instruction in the budget and that is another reason we need a line-item budget to review. Funds for Instruction were swept into the University General Account and can only be accessed as approved by President Burse. There continues to be confusion about the deposit of shared health care funds, which is supposed to be retroactive to October 1. A Senator said he has checked and supposedly payroll is in the process of working that out now. Chair Moffett added that possibly we should look at embedding caps advisors in units. NKU has done so in an attempt to address their 2nd worst graduation rate of state universities. They hired consultants who said that advising was their primary problem for graduation. A Senator pointed out that NKU is much larger than KSU and hiring additional staff within units could mean even more staff relative to faculty. Professional Concerns Committee Report: All of the policy procedural problems with the establishment of a viable Post Tenure Review Committee were reiterated. We still have not received a list of the 25 faculty members to be reviewed, a faculty member from a reviewee’s academic unit must be on the committee, yet the committee is limited by policy to 7 members and there are 12 academic units.

The meeting adjourned at 4:24 pm when a quorum was lost.

Minutes Submitted by: Reba Rye, Faculty Senate Secretary