different meetings. Consultant will bring forth recommended edits for the faculty handbook. Then Consultant will bring forth recommendations for HR policies.

  • Need a review of DEA and can we use Interfolio for making this easier for tenure and promotion. Working on making a tenured faculty committee that will review this area
  • Coordinators are being discussed and committee being formed.
  • University Forum – first business meeting will be this Wednesday.
  • Academic Policies Committee – Jason Keeler [10 minute time limit]
  • Committee re-voted on Academic Calendar update that was created in last year's committee. However, President Smith found that a previous senate policy was created to have the University and Academic Calendar be aligned, so the calendar was updated based on this past policy and then submitted to the University as a whole and updated on the website by the registrar.
  • Committee is working on a common syllabus template for the university
  • Other works that will need to be addressed this year.
  • Common curriculum ladder/course mapping template
  • Waiting for general education committee update to complete this task
  • Professional Concerns Committee – Monica Valentine [10 minute time limit]
  • Committee discussed an action item on how chairs should be elected or appointed. Should the chair-person be tenured or at least tenure-track. Discussed coordinators.
  • Curriculum Committee – Leigh Whittinghill [10 minute time limit]
  • Committee action item to reinstate graduate tracking document (Code: FSCC 19-20-01). Vote held to approve tracking document. Moved, seconded, all were in favor.
  • Budget and Academic Support Committee – Phillip Clay [10 minute time limit]
  • Budget and Academic Support Committee – Phillip Clay [10 minute time limit]
  • Committee discussed classroom inventory. Will complete another inventory this year. Discussion was held about veteran faculty base pay compared to new faculty. Discussion of merit pay and the evaluation form handed out during spring semester of last year.
  • Faculty Regent Report [10 minute time limit]
  • Regent reported that no actions were completed. Discussion was had about the following
  • Faculty pay bandwidth discussion. There is a need to understand the range of salaries within a rank or department or other category.
  • DFW discussion about courses that had 30-40% DFWs.
  • A list of faculty instructional workload was presented to the Board of Regents.
  • Projected graduation rate for 2015 cohort is 28% 4 year grad; projected 5 year: 37% and 6 year 42%
  • Precollege academy had 59 students total, of which 58 came to campus. 40 at GPA 2.0 or above; 21 at 3.0; 4 at 4.
  • Brand Identity rolling out new logos and items