Semmens replied, I was instructed to open a bunch of standing purchase orders, but it’s unwise to tie up money without knowing what it’s going for. It’s not a good situation.

Moffett agreed and suggested that they take this issue to the Ombudsman.

The committee had a lengthy discussion about the realistic deadline for the closeout of the fiscal year. As this is an issue that should have been given to the Budget Committee, Gibson emailed Chair Clay, and he agreed that BASC would take up the issue.

Baseline Criteria for Tenure and Promotion were on the agenda to be discussed, but this item was tabled.

The committee is looking at the Faculty Handbook. Revisions have been given to us, and we will discuss these with Moffett, who will be joining us at our next committee meeting.

An administrator emailed Gibson stating that she had pulled into the ASB lot one morning, and there were seven cars that had parked there overnight. Thereupon, Gibson reached out to the police chief, who said she'd do the best she can to monitor the parking situation, but they are so short staffed that they are not able to look into all incidents.

Moffett explained that the Provost had told him at the beginning of the semester that there needed to be a baseline description of what it takes to get promotion. So Moffett convened a committee to discuss this issue, composed of faculty from current and former PCC committees. The Provost was supposed to write a guiding document for this committee, asking for the kinds of clarifications that he needed in the TnP guidelines, but he has not done so yet.

A Senator asked, are we sure that the Board will get to the Tenure and Promotion recommendations at their June meeting? Moffett replied, yes.

Tenure and Promotion applications will be voted on at the next Board meeting in June. One issue with the delay which needs to be addressed is when faculty received a notice of “deferred” instead of yes or no – the SACS credentialing issue. Reilly stated that he doesn’t know what the outcome will be with those faculty applications.

President Brown was planning to come to this Senate meeting today, but he will hopefully come to the next Senate meeting. Reilly asked the Senators to email or speak with him if they have any questions that they would like Brown to address. He will commit to passing these questions along.

Senator Semmens asked for an explanation of why the last date to submit purchase requisitions is April 15th. After that date, researchers cannot submit purchase requisitions, making research quite difficult.

Reilly responded that this would be a good question to bring to Brown.

12. Other Business: None.

13. Adjournment: The meeting adjourned at 4:40pm.