AU Steering Meeting

Information Items

Public Access to Senate Committee Reports

Presented by Mark Carpenter, Senate Chair, and Lisa Kensler, Chair-Elect.

• It was discussed that the last five years committee reports will be placed on canvas and senators will have access to the reports. Discussion was made about the legal aspect having the open reports available. After much discussion it was decided that some reports will be submitted to the canvas space and there will be further discussion about where to house them later reviewing any legal issues.

Administration Policy on Policies

Presented by Mark Carpenter, Senate Chair, and Lisa Kensler, Chair-Elect.

Policy on Policies (epub)

• Mark discussed policy on policy suggestions that Mitchell Brown had presented previously of which 3 main concerns. After much discussion, new suggestions were given that would support the senate being more involved:

  1. Feedback loop before a policy get published,

  2. A member of the Senate executive should be part of the policy committee and

  3. Sufficient notice of the policy change should go before the senate to have time to review before the policy change.

Non-Tenure Track Faculty Committee Report

Presented by Ash Curtiss, NTTF Committee Chair and Senior Lecturer in Chemistry/Biochemistry.

• Ash gave a detailed committee report on Non-Tenure Track faculty. The report was received Ash made a suggestion of the lecturer be given a third promotion and or a creation of a teaching step 3.

Changes to the Faculty Handbook

Presented by Mitchell Brown, Chair of the Seante Faculty Handbook Review Committee, and/or Norman Godwin.

• Norman Godwin spoke concerning handbook changes to be considered. After much discussion on concern 2 the chair asked should executive/steering send changes back to policy committee. A vote was made by the committee, and it was decided to send concern 2 back to the policy committee. Concerns 1 and 2 did not have concerns and they will stay as originally submitted.

Senate Committee Nominations

Presented by L. Octavia Tripp, Rules Committee Chair and Senate Secretary.

• The secretary presented information on names of faculty who have agreed to ether continue to stay on various committee and those volunteers that have been reviewed. All names that volunteered and agree to continue for another term were approved by Rules. It was discussed that we were still needing volunteers and at the next Rules committee Rules will continue to work on the list. Therefore, at the next Senate meeting senators will look at the approve list and vote for the nominated individuals.

Unfinished or New Business

• Lisa Kensler made a comment about having a parliamentarian for 2023-2024 school year. This statement would be considered an announcement and it was agreed that the announcement would come under information.

Adjournment

Chair Mark Carpenter adjourned the meeting at 5:35 p.m.