The fifth regular meeting of the 2019-2020 Faculty Senate will took place on Monday, October 28th, 2019, at 3:10pm in 123 Hathaway Hall. The meeting minutes are as follows:

  1. Call to Order
  2. President Smith called the meeting to order at 3:12pm
  3. Approval of Agenda [5 minute time limit]
  4. Motion was made to approve agenda, all were in favor.
  5. Approval of Minutes of 10/7/2019 Senate Meeting [5 minute time limit]
  6. Corrections to add Leigh Whittinghill to present, and the misspelling of Ken Andries.
  7. Motion was made to approve the minutes from 10/7/2019, all were in favor
  8. Faculty Senate President Report [15 minute time limit]
  9. Meeting with President
  10. Search for permanent Provost will begin next semester and will follow faculty handbook.
  11. Issue of keeping low enrolled courses on the calendar. University may pay for the courses as overloads on top of faculty load to keep students on track for graduation, if faculty are willing to instruct the course.
  12. President will ask Academic Affairs to look into compensation for independent studies. These will most likely be paid differently from the low enrolled course.
  13. The issue is if the course is on the books to teach and only 1 student is in the course, it would be an independent study. This designation would be one type of compensation and if the course was a low enrolled course the faculty would be compensated differently.
  14. Discussed issue of contracts coming out late, and having faculty unaware of being reappointed. This issue will be looked into by Academic Affairs.
  15. Faculty will be getting raises in the spring, but the manner in which the raises occur has not been decided.
  16. President Brown's requests
  17. Develop action item for APC to work on the committee book
  18. Distinguished Professor Issue. This is a one-year appointment. A committee is working on this developing the definition and development of the award. Dr. Schneller will keep the senate informed.
  19. APC needs to look at how many honorary degrees within a year. Legal counsel is checking into other institutions to compare the numbers of degrees.
  20. President Brown stated he wants the Faculty Senate meetings to be very open and feels the presence of the President closes those doors sometimes. He is willing to attend any meeting the Senate asks him to attend.
  21. Faculty/student affairs task force on student attendance issues. Dr. Schneller presented that a committee will be put together to try to address the issue of students not coming to class.
  22. Please email Senate President Smith with anecdotal or statistical data on attendance in classes.