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President Sipes announced that the next day at 11am would be the nomination meeting for several positions including senator at large, faculty appeals, tenure and promotion, and faculty recognition committees.

Diane Snow was introduced. She will be working as an enrollment management consultant. She sought faculty volunteers for scholarship and admission appeals committees. Erin Gilliam volunteered for admission appeals and Marlin McKay for the scholarship committee.

President Sipes reiterated from the previous senate meeting that the Executive Committee is seeking individuals to serve on two ad hoc committees, one of which will examine current Faculty Handbook and Senate Constitution policies and seek to clarify and harmonize these policies where needed.

The second ad hoc committee will examine the various resolutions of late, namely those authored by Cary Nelson, Mary Pat Wohlford, the FCC, and Senate Ex Comm and synthesize a document to be taken to the Board.

A motion to extend time for 5 minutes passed was at the request of FCC President Roosevelt Shelton.

Dr. Shelton inquired about a resolution about shared governance that came from Mary Pat Wohlford. He wanted to know when President Sipes received it and whether it was submitted to President Thompson. Conversation ensued regarding which specific document Dr. Shelton had in mind. There was not consensus on which document was the object of discussion. A guest reiterated the question of whether or not an item that fit Dr. Shelton's description had been presented to President Thompson. President Sipes replied there was not.

Chair Moffett explained that Dr. Jackson had met with APC to discuss three possible calendar changes: altering the fall semester start date (which has already been enacted for fall 2017); making Founder's Day a day of service with no course meetings scheduled; changing Thanksgiving Break to a full week, either by shifting Fall Break days to that week or simply adding on two more academic holiday days. Chair Moffett encouraged the group to send thoughts to him so that they could inform APC's decision about whether or not to take action on these proposals.