Minutes of Faculty Senate, 8/22/16 Meeting
123 Hathaway Hall
| Senators | Peter Smith (LLP) |
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| Abdullah Alhurani (Nursing) A | Steve Ulrich (PUA, CJ, SW) |
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| Ibukun Amusan (Math & Sci) | Changzheng Wang (at large) A |
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| Ken Andries (AFE) | |
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| Nancy Capriles (BSS) | |
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| Gary Elliott (WYS) E | Ex Officio Members and Guests |
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| Maheteme Gebremedhin (AFE) A | Aaron Thompson (President) |
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| Cindy Glass (BSS) | Candice Love Jackson (Acting VPAA) |
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| William Graham (EDU) A | Deneia Thomas (Assoc. VP) |
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| Robert Griffin (FIAR) | Elgie McFayden (Faculty Regent) |
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| Buddhi Gywali (AFE) | Kirk Pomper (Interim Dir. Land Grant) |
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| Dantrea Hampton (Library) | John Sedlacek (AFE) |
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| Jens Hannemann (Comp Sci) E | Cynthia Shelton (WYS) |
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| Robert Hebble (Math & Sci) | Bekele Tegegne (Library) |
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| Ashok Kumar (at large) | Bruce Griffiths (Math & Sci) |
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| Vikas Kumar (AQU) | Fariba Bigdeli-Jahed (Math & Sci) |
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| Li Lu (Math & Sci) | LeChrista Finn (AFE) |
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| Narayanan Rajendran (at large) | John Poole (Pearson) |
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| Reba Rye (at Large) | Michlene Healy (Pearson) |
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Faculty Senate President Sipes called the meeting to order at 3:12pm. A show of hands was requested to indicate number of senators present. Twelve people raised their hands.
President Sipes asked for approval of the agenda. A senator made the motion and another seconded it.
President Sipes asked for senators to introduce themselves. After all had done so, President Sipes thanked everyone for service. Non-Senators, Ex-officio members, and guests also introduced themselves.
President Sipes noted that Senate has much work to do this year. She announced that APC and PCC would work together on several issues, including updating the Faculty Handbook and reviewing processes for Tenure and Promotion, program review, Post-Tenure Review, and scheduling of classes. She noted that CC would examine the recommendations made by The