FacEx Meeting Minutes
Meeting Details:
Fiscal Year: FY2025
Date:
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Minutes Recorded By: Suzanne Scales
Minutes Approved on:
Attendance—
Attending Members
- Josh Arpin
- Sam Brody
- Masoud Darabi
- Poppy DeltaDawn
- Misty Heggeness
- Brendan Mattingly
Other Attendees
- Shayla Murphy
- Suzanne Scales
- Meagan Patterson
- Jeff Chasen
Approval of Previous Minutes —
Meeting minutes from January 28. The minutes were sent with the meeting notification. Branden Mattingly made a motion to approve the minutes. Josh Arpin seconded. The minutes were approved by acclamation.
Reports—
Faculty Senate Report
Reporter: Sam Brody
Sam reported the following.
- Attended All Teams meeting and the Virtual Town Hall.
- At Faculty Senate there was not much discussion from members on the research funding issue. There was one report of a cut in Physics and Astronomy for a private grant. People were inclined to be reactive.
- There is a new bill in Kansas about the elimination of tenure.
Masoud made a motion to prepare a response to the new bill. Poppy seconded. Motion passed.
University Senate Report
Reporter: Josh Arpin
- Callie Long talked about the Master Plan on the last meeting.
- Dual employment. Some people get some exemptions for this. It will be on the list for the next Provost meeting.
- Grade replacement policy. Currently you have to have a grade C+ or worse. They want to modify the CODE language to include grades higher than C+.
- Excused Absence Policy. Got an update from the Athletics Josh will ask the Provost about the testing center that was previously being discussed as an option. Josh will get all the options and then create a plan.
Unfinished Business —
CORE 34 letter. Sam will email it to a Regents and invite them to join a meeting. They should be prepared to speak on a variety of topics...
New Business —
Two University Senate Code changes were discussed.
University Senate Code, Article XIII Faculty Rights Board Membership
Proposed changing “tenured” to “non-tenured”.
Brendan Mattingly motioned to accept the recommendations. Poppy DeltaDawn seconded the motion. Motion approved.
University Senate Code, Article 2 Section 4. The President’s role in Faculty Senate. Proposal to add that the President can be the liaison with UAKU. This was discussed and changes were made.
Brendan Mattingly motioned to accept the recommendations. Poppy DeltaDawn seconded the motion. Motion approved.
Sam motioned to move to closed session to constitute the Faculty Rights Board.
Meeting adjourned.