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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes May 8, 2019

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes May 8, 2019
Senate Meeting called to order at 4:05 PM
Presiding: Donna Gauthier; Secretary: Clai Rice
    1) Approval of Minutes:  (previous minutes not yet available)
    2) President’s Report: Newly elected Senate President has had some good discussions with faculty, gauging issues that need addressing.
        a) One thing we need to implement is online voting. There should be some way to do this.
        b) University Council meets Monday.
        c) New Web Master is Jeff Lush(?), who will improve site utility for public-facing material, getting it up to date, especially for minutes and motions.
        d) Will continue to use Moodle page also for non-public material.
        e) Please email Pres. Gauthier with top 5 FS issues for the coming year.
    3) Senate Committee Reports
        a) Ways & Means (Berry): Administration has been reviewing policy on interdisciplinary studies. One sticking point has been joint appointments–how do we handle T&P issues and the like in these cases? McKinney says there’s no rush on this. Email cberry@louisiana.edu with suggestions.
        b) Status of Under-represented Faculty Groups: This ad hoc committee has no clear status right now. There is no member list. Agenda item for first Fall meeting–review ad hoc committees
        c) SEI Review Committee: Status here is also unclear. Past President Parker says the committee is on hold. Some consensus around the conclusion that the committee is awaiting individual college reports on this topic, so a FS committee was redundant.
    4) University Committee Reports
        a) Strategic Program Review (Gauthier): After having reviewed several good studies, the committee has put academic self-studies on pause for now because getting data has been a choke point in the process, and because Admin has not yet filled two crucial positions (Instructional Assessment and VP for Academic Affairs) for closing the loop on these studies. D. Gauthier will step down as chair due to new FS duties.
    5) Old Business
        a) Reviewing Faculty Handbook: there was discussion last time, and a motion may have been made in the April meeting but status uncertain.
        b) Intellectual Property Rights: status uncertain.
    6) New Business
        a) Ballots were distributed for the election of FS representatives from each college to University Committees.
            i) After voting, it was determined that the ballots were faulty because there were not at least two persons nominated for each position. The process dictates that two names are forwarded to the VP’s office and he selects one.
            ii) Motion (Oller, Berkeley)): The Senate accepts the slate from the ballot that can be accepted (that is, that had two or more nominees). Passes on voice
            iii) Motion (McDonald, Berkeley): The Committee on Committees and the President are empowered to recruit additional people and present to McKinney as full a slate as possible by May 17. Passes on voice

Motion to Adjourn: 4:58 p.m.

Submitted May 15, 2019
Clai Rice
Secretary