Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes October 17, 2018

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, October 17, 2018, Oliver Hall 112

Meeting called to order at 4:05 pm, as there is a quorum.

Chad Parker (CP) there isn’t an agenda to display, and no minutes to approve because Sheri had some personal matters and only just getting back to campus since the last meeting. Not a big deal in that nothing is affected as we lost some members at the end of the last meeting and didn’t have a quorum at the end.

CP reported that he met with Robert McKinney about the Parking committee and McKinney confirmed the committee does not exist.

Senator Jack Dimico (JD) rhetorically asked how does this show shared goverence?

Nursing Senator expressed concern since an email was sent to faculty about being charged a fee if they were still parked on campus after 1 pm the Friday of Festival Acaidan. She stated this should not even be sent to us being we have to pay for parking as it is.

CP agreed this is not shared goverence and will talk to Provost about the committee coming back.

CP asked if there were any report to give.

A Senator stated that some people still think they are members of certain committees and need to be informed their term has expired.

CP stated for any one who serves on any committee to email Sheri, sheri@louisiana.edu, or Chad to inform us of the committee.

Senator GH stated that all committees are at the mercy of the committee chair. The chair will run it the way they want and if that means not having meetings, then that is what happens.

CP stated Mark Smith is the chair of Committee on Committees and he isn’t here for us to address who he believes is on the committee. We, the Senate, will do a Poll to determine who is on what. We’ll get it straight, we have a lot of work to do to rebuild.

CP continues to say it is even harder to rebuild with the faculty morale as low as it is. Very apathetic.

New Business- we need to provide a slate of names for the Task Force.

JD suggests that we vote on the names in the colleges that we do have people and get that to the Provost and we will fill in the rest as needed.

Those present vote in agreement with JD.

CP stated there hasn’t been much interest in those serving on the Ad Hoc committees either.

Sheri Lazare (SL) suggested to add a blurb about what each Ad Hoc Committee will focus on so there is better understanding.

Senator Donna Gauthier stated the Stragetic Program Review met with the Provost and will work to get the committee review started again, but in a better process. Hope to have something to present for Senate review by Spring 2019.
CP asked if there are any other reports or old business.

Senator stated concern and legal nature of HR sending out email with everyone’s driver’s license number in a spread sheet for those who have and haven’t completed the driving training for travel.
Also wants to know what type of Credit Watch or protection will be provided for those on the list.

Several senators expressed grave concern about this issue and state something needs to be done, in addition to having the email removed from the servers.

Nursing Senator states there needs to be something more done and someone needs to draft a resolution.

GH added that an email needs to be sent apologizing for the error, and for those who downloaded the information to delete it.

Matt Green (MG) stated the email could be deleted from servers and should be.

Motion to approve the Resolution proposed by nursing senator.
Motion made and seconded, and all voted yes, with no abstentions. 

CP stated he will share a draft of the resolution on the Moodle page so everyone is aware of the wording.

New Business:
GH stated he heard the President say there is a possible 2% raise coming but President did not state how it would be distributed.

CP stated he will ask the Provost if we can put a committee together to review raises so we’ll see how things go.

GH stated that the Provost needs to make sure to bring back the summer pay committee too. GH stated he would send the list of the members of the summer committee to CP.

CP stated he would bring this up with the Provost again.

GH stated that the university and HR need to provide information relevant to faculty and make it a point to educate and inform because so many faculty are losing money in retirement options because it is not addressed by our HR. Also look at other university and phasing down retirement- want to propose to UL to do this.

Matt Green (MG) stated he would like to see all policies related to faculty to be promoted and accessible, not just the ones for HR or retirement.

CP stated he would invite Paul Thomas and the Provost to come and Provost is already aware of the serious policy issues on campus.

Motion to adjourn.
Motion seconded.
Meeting adjourned at 4:46 pm.