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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes March 15, 2023

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Faculty Senate
Draft Minutes, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, Zoom Meeting
Presiding: Philip Auter, Secretary: Clai Rice

I. Call to Order
  • 4:02.
II. Quorum Call
  • 35, need 28.
III. Agenda
  • Approved unanimously.
IV. January Meeting Minutes
  • Approved unanimously.
V. February Meeting Minutes
  • Approved unanimously.
VI. Committee Reports
  • Faculty Senate Committees
    • Standing Committees
      • Nominating Committee (C. Rice)
        • The slate so far remains at P. Auter for President, L. Orr for VP, and K. Robinson for Secretary. Additional nominations welcome.
        • We ask that the President and VP nominees present brief statements at the April meeting before the election.
        • Zoom should allow for an anonymous vote as mandated by the Constitution.
      • Executive Committee
        • P. Auter states that the FS executives’ stipends are undetermined as yet, but the travel fund for the whole Executive Committee has been approved.
    • Ad Hoc Committees –
      • Ad Hoc Committee on Tenure and Promotion (L. Orr)
        • Committee draft received back from Deans, suggestions have been incorporated, it has gone to Ways and Means, been approved, and will be distributed to everyone for response. It will be introduced in the April meeting.
  • University Committees
    • SEI (N. Autin)
      • Surveys will open April 10 for full semester classes.
      • We will be looking as always at the form of the survey to see if it can be improved. Let us know of your ideas.
VII. Old Business
  • Constitutional amendment introduced by Executive Committee [Full text in Appendix A].
  • Amendment approved 32-0 (needed 2/3rds).
VIII. New Business
  • Election Report (C. Rice)
    • Unit elections are going on. One unit has reported (Library). Tell your colleagues to run.
  • The amendment we just approved did not make provisions for fall elections in case some units added many positions. If we wanted to do that though we could amend the amendment.
  • J. Rouen: Make sure if you are bringing in candidates that your LaCarte card is approved for meals.
IX. Announcements
  • Consider attending the UL system Free Speech event.
X. Adjournment
  • 4:52.

Submitted by Clai Rice
March 7, 2023

Appendix A

Faculty Senate Constitutional Amendment #06

Goals:

  1. Fix a typo resulting from Amendment #05.
  2. Clarify that although elections have been moved to spring, that terms still begin in Fall (at beginning of semester) and end the last day of Spring semester of the final year of the senator’s term. (Elected term lengths vary by rank from 1 – 3 years.)

Proposed Changes WITH MARKUP:

ARTICLE II. Section 3.4

If senators that are elected in the spring and depart by fall – or are promoted to a different rank and thus are ineligible to hold a certain senate seat – those seats will become vacant. If this occurs, an ad hoc election will be held to fill those vacant positions. Senators elected in the ad hoc election shall take office at the first meeting following their election.

ARTICLE II. Section 2. Elective Members. 1 – 5

  1. Elective members of the Faculty Senate must be associate professors, assistant professors, instructorsinstructors, or adjunct faculty of the general faculty not serving in an administrative capacity above the level of Department Chair or equivalent who have completed no less than one academic year of full-time employment at the University at the time of taking office. No candidate for a degree at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette shall be a member of the Faculty Senate. Elective senate terms begin the first day of the fall semester after an election occurs and end the last day of spring semester of the final year of a senator’s term.
  2. Associate professors shall be elected in the proportion of one member per four associate professors or fraction thereof in each faculty unit of the University. Associate professor Senate members shall be elected for three-year terms and shall take office at the first meeting following election.
  3. Assistant professors shall be elected in the proportion of one member per four assistant professors or fraction thereof in each faculty unit of the University. Such members shall be elected for two-year terms and shall take office at the first meeting following election.
  4. One instructor shall be elected from each faculty unit of the University. Such members shall be elected for one-year terms and shall take office at the first meeting following election.
  5. One adjunct faculty member shall be elected from each faculty unit of the University to serve a one-year term. Such members shall be elected for one-year terms and shall take office at the first meeting following election.

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Proposed Changes CLEAN:

ARTICLE II. Section 3.4

If senators that are elected in the spring depart by fall – or are promoted to a different rank and thus are ineligible to hold a certain senate seat – those seats will become vacant. If this occurs, an ad hoc election will be held to fill those vacant positions. Senators elected in the ad hoc election shall take office at the first meeting following their election.

ARTICLE II. Section 2. Elective Members. 1 – 5

  1. Elective members of the Faculty Senate must be associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, or adjunct faculty of the general faculty not serving in an administrative capacity above the level of Department Chair or equivalent who have completed no less than one academic year of full-time employment at the University at the time of taking office. No candidate for a degree at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette shall be a member of the Faculty Senate. Elective senate terms begin the first day of the fall semester after an election occurs and end the last day of spring semester of the final year of a senator’s term.
  2. Associate professors shall be elected in the proportion of one member per four associate professors or fraction thereof in each faculty unit of the University. Associate professor Senate members shall be elected for three-year terms.
  3. Assistant professors shall be elected in the proportion of one member per four assistant professors or fraction thereof in each faculty unit of the University. Such members shall be elected for two-year terms.
  4. One instructor shall be elected from each faculty unit of the University. Such members shall be elected for one-year terms.
  5. One adjunct faculty member shall be elected from each faculty unit of the University to serve a one-year term. Such members shall be elected for one-year terms.