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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes April 19, 2023

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Faculty Senate
Draft Minutes, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, Zoom Meeting
Presiding: Philip Auter, Secretary: Clai Rice

I. Call to Order

3:55

II. Quorum Call–26; so we started the Executive Report

26; so we started the Executive Report

III. Executive Report 

—Auter

  • Legislative agenda is not favorable for higher education
  • You are invited to attend a workshop at Southern U. on building coalitions within and across faculties.
  • FS will work with Academic Affairs office to evaluate Canvas, after being requested by the system to look at a possible change.
  • Considering calling a special May meeting for T&P policy vote
IV. Quorum check

At 4:06 we had 35, need 28.

V. Agenda

—Berkeley, Orr

  • Approved unanimously
VI. March meeting minutes

—Feld, Garrie

  • Approved unanimously
VII. Committee Reports

Faculty Senate Committees

Standing Committees
         
Ways and Means
—Stein

  • Z. Stein is the new W & M chair
  • They met to review and comment on the T&P handbook draft

Academic Planning and Development
—Jordan

  • Will be reaching out to Distance Learning to get their evaluation of the Moodle evaluation that was done. Afterwards they will decide what can be done
  • Senators please give feedback to S. Jordan or other members of the committee

Executive Committee
—Rice

  • Senate elections are ongoing, not every unit has reported results yet. Please encourage your unit to do so.

Ad Hoc Committees

Handbook Committee
—Auter

  • Committee is working on starting a rough draft from the outline

University Committees

SEI
—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.
VIII. Old Business

None

IX. New Business

Executive Committee Election
Nominations from the floor for any position: None
 
President

  • Presidential Nominee Statement: Auter
  • Presidential vote: Auter 32-1

Vice President

  • Vice Presidential Nominee Statement: Orr
  • Vice Presidential Vote: Orr 31-0

Secretary

  • Secretary Nominee Statement: Robinson
  • Secretary vote: Robinson 33-0

Due to the past president not being available to serve as the 4th Executive Committee member, as described in the Constitution.

  • Nominations taken from the floor
    ​- Louka
    - Voting: Louka 30-0

Proposed meeting dates
Vote on first meeting date and time now, rest of the schedule is approved in the first meeting of September.

  • Motion to have first meeting on 20 September 2023, 4:00 pm (Auter)
    Date approved: vote 30-0
  • Motion to have next year meetings on Zoom (Auter)
    Approved 29 yea, 3 nay, 2 abstain

Handbook T&P Document.
Text is available on the FS Moodle page.

  • Some questions and discussion occurred, generally on issues of specific applications, such as the role of outside referees. Orr stated that the general goal is to make a document general enough to accept a wide variety of practices but specific enough to require clear guidelines for promotion.
  • It was clarified that any change in tenure criteria will not be applied to existing candidates but only to ones hired after the changes go into effect. Changes to other levels of promotion are not delayed in the same way.

President is calling a meeting for Wed, 3 May, at 4:00 pm.
The agenda will have two items: Voting on the T&P amendment and possibly voting on a statement regarding ongoing state legislative issues.

X. Announcements
XI. Adjournment

5:40

Submitted by Clai Rice
May 4, 2023