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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes March 17, 2021

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Faculty Senate
Minutes, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, Zoom Meeting 
Presiding: Donna Gauthier (DG), Secretary: Clai Rice

1. Call to Order at 4:00 pm
2. ADVANCE—Sherry Krayesky presents about new undergraduate research center
3. Charles Broome: IT strategies to prevent and reduce cyber-attacks
4. Quorum Call—40
5. **Approval of Minutes – Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb
6. Report from Executive Officer (FS President DG)
  • DG report recorded and posted to Moodle.
  • New Constitution was not sent to VP McKinney for approval. It does not need his approval.
7. Reports from Senate Committees

Committee on Committees – JoAnne DeRouen

  • If you are rotating out or wish to rotate off a committee, let Executive know so we can plan.

Ways and Means – Zack Stein

  • No report.

Academic Planning and Development – No chair

  • No report.

Governmental Concerns – Robert Slater

  • Higgins did not show but submitted a short video posted to Moodle.
  • We need to make clear on the site that he didn’t show up.

Faculty Advisory Council Committee

  • No report.

Reports of Ad-Hoc Committees

Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Compensation

  • Dr. Pal did a great job on data analysis and presentation. Provost did not show at the preview, McKinney was there.

FS Committee

  • Will be on University Compensation Committee.
8. Reports from University Committees

Curriculum Committee – Jaimie Hebert

  • No report.

Faculty Grievance Committee – Natalia Sidorovskaia

  • No report.
  • DG summarized meeting they had to review process issues.

Faculty Benefits and Welfare Committee – Praven Das

  • No report.

Committee on Academic Affairs and Standards – Donna Wadsworth

  • Report posted to Moodle.

Student Evaluation of Instruction – Nancy Autin

  • Deans decided to re-use fall SEI form.

Library Committee – Blair Stapleton

  • No report.

Campus Planning – Thomas Sammons

  • No report.

General Education – Pearson Cross

  • No report.

Distance Learning Leadership Council – Claire Arabie

  • No report.

Strategic Program Review Committee – Donna Gauthier

  • Will be moved under new Office of Faculty Effectiveness
9. New Business

Nominating Committee—Anita Hazelwood

  • Pres: Berkeley
  • VP: Otto and Luka
  • Sec: Rice
10. Announcements
  • Shots are available in town.
  • No hires are being reported, except single term hires.
  • Next Meeting April 21.
11. All minutes posted on Moodle are approved.
12. Adjournment at 5:20 pm.

Submitted by Clai Rice.


Appendix I: Notes from Dr. Hebert’s premeeting discussion:
  1. Gov. Edwards has submitted a budget that restores funding to Higher Education that was lost last year due to CARES funding. Also includes an increase in formula funding, which would help us. Faculty salary increases are also written in.
  2. The strategic planning that is going on will attempt to bring all the university divisions into a coherent plan, not just academics.
  3. We should be getting more information on why goals from the last strategic plan were not met.
  4. We should make athletics self-supporting.
  5. Governance structure within academic affairs needs to be revamped completely. Faculty governance is not part of any division, so we risk having this ignored in the new planning process.
  6. We are working to get more decentralization on things like hiring—that could be approved at the college level.  Banner could help with this but we still have a long way to go.
  7. Faculty Senate Constitution was not forwarded to Administration for approval—there is no approval necessary.

Posted to chat by Chad Parker regarding budget: