Guest Speaker Presentation —

Josh Bolick was the guest speaker. He was there to speak about the Open Access Policy. Josh shared some links. He introduced himself and said he is head of the David Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright in KU Libraries. KU was one of the first public institutions to adopt a Harvard style of the Open Access Policy. The OAP is a faculty policy adopted by Faculty Senate in 2009. It grants the university the right to share copies of your work on your request. This supports faculty who want to share their work. The policy set up an advisory board. Since 2010, much has changed in Open Access. Support models for OA has changed. We are developing revisions for the OA procedures. Josh shared the "Processes to Implement the KU OA Policy”.  The committee approved on Oct. 9. They shared this with the Libraries Committee on Oct. 28. Josh reviewed the document and what they did. The following links were shared in the chat:

 https://openaccess.ku.edu/

https://services.ku.edu/TDClient/818/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=21301

https://openaccess.ku.edu/open-access-advisory-board

https://services.ku.edu/TDClient/818/Portal/Shared/FileOpen?AttachmentID=934871db-878b-44bc-9b16-58719343a956&ItemID=21301&ItemComponent=26&IsInline=-1

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XKNrCRn4fAyJ-QYdbQpT6cjTUQQGqGjM9Mq1vnSyf_Y/edit?usp=sharing

Because this is a Faculty Senate document, Josh would like endorsement of Faculty Senate. Question. How do we make sure faculty is aware of this option? Misty suggested getting faculty senates involved who can then spread the info to their departments. 

Josh clarified it is not the policy they are revising, rather the implementation process. Josh would like to present to Faculty Senate. 

Do Open Educational Resources integrate with this? OAR refers to teaching/learning content and OA becomes OAR when introduced into the classroom. 

FacEx can put Josh on the Faculty Senate agenda meeting in the Spring to talk about the draft policy. 

Faculty Senate meetings are Feb. 5 and March 5. Josh will hold these dates on his calendar and plan to present. 

Faculty Senate Report

Misty has been attending the KBOR meeting and workload and tenure policy is moving forward. It is in a subcommittee now. The COFS Presidents plans to write a letter to the Regents about the new workload policy. Misty has been collaborating with them on the letter. Rusty Monhollon is retiring in January, and he was leading this process. The Chancellor’s search for the provost is moving forward. Misty collected information from faculty senators and their departments on what they are looking for in a new Provost. Misty expanded on the letter from the COFS presidents. The first is instructional workload. Misty shared the letter and explained there is ambiguity around this. Misty shared the tenure policy part and said “no like “adequate” in the language. Academic freedom was stressed as important. For post tenure, people are concerned about the committee composition, and they are asking for someone external to be on the committee. 

University Senate Report

University Senate are finished for the year. We are working on the Student Senate changes to the University Senate Code. 

New Business —

Amy Mendenhall mentioned the Faculty Finals event tomorrow and Thursday from 11-2 pm. 

Meeting adjourned.