Education on redesigning teacher preparation. Academic Affairs is also working with CPE initiatives on enrollment management and career services and developing our graduate profile. Professor Kristopher Grimes is looking at revising dual credit policies and procedures. Dr. Dailey is working with us on technology in our physical classrooms. The West Louisville initiative is also going forward.
Faculty Senate Committee Reports
Academic Policy Committee Kristopher Grimes
APC discussed policies around internships. The committee’s top priority this semester is an attendance policy that will cover all delivery modes. We want a policy that is both reasonable and aggressive. We are looking at our past policies and policies from other universities. When we get a policy, faculty will need to enforce it consistently.
Curriculum Committee Changzheng Wang
The English faculty has done a student survey and is using that data to make big changes in its program. The committee began working on these proposals in its last meeting and more will be coming.
Professional Concerns Committee Gary Stratton
PCC is working with Academic Affairs on a faculty mentoring program. There will be an action item on faculty elections after our next meeting. At our last meeting, we heard from this year's tenure and promotion candidates about the suspension of that process. Also, it came to our attention that a Faculty Handbook amendment that passed in 2015 and again in 2018 has never been put in the handbook and implemented. This action item involved credit hours, contact hours and faculty load, especially as those pertain to lab science classes. The item was signed by the president in both 2015 and 2018.
President Clay said that he will follow up on this with the provost.
PCC also talked about the presentation from Greg Rush to the KSU Board proposing ways to make the $7 million cut KSU has to make for its 2023 budget. Those ideas from Mr. Rush have generated a lot of concern from faculty. We know that there are a lot of other possible savings that aren’t addressed and may be unknown to people outside the day to day work of teaching our students. For that reason, PCC is proposing the formation of an ad hoc committee on budget reductions to put forward faculty’s best ideas for how to save the money.
Senator Stratton presented a budget text to the Senate on screen. After a number of friendly amendments, the action item to form an Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Cost Saving passed the Senate with 18 votes for it, one vote against and no abstentions.
Amended text of the resolution appears below:
Description: Create a Faculty Senate ad hoc committee to collect cost saving and new revenue generating ideas from across the KSU campus. This ad hoc committee will try to have at least