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
  • Poppy DeltaDawn
  • Misty Heggeness
  • Brendan Mattingly

Other Attendees

  • Shayla Murphy
  • Suzanne Scales
  • Jeff Chasen
  • Meagan Patterson

Approval of Previous Minutes

Meeting minutes from February 11, 2025, were sent before the meeting. Motion to approve by Brendan Mattingly. Seconded by Misty Heggeness. Motion passed unanimously.

Reports

Faculty Senate Report

Reporter: Sam Brody

Sam reported the following.

  • He emailed the CORE 34 report to KBOR. He met with the Provost and Chancellor who both had suggestions on the specific way of doing this.
  • Sam emailed Flanders at KBOR. It was suggested that VP Monhollon come to speak at Faculty Senate. 
  • Sam thanked FacEx members for their contributions to the House Bill letter on tenure. The statement will be used in the future, if needed. Sam will continue talks with KU Med and K State about a joint statement if it is needed later.

 

University Senate Report

Reporter: Josh Arpin

Josh reported the following.

  • Josh and Sam had meetings with the Provost and Chancellor.
  • There was a “dear colleague” letter sent out about discrimination on campus with threats to federal funding. We are still learning about this.
  • Issue at Haskell. Comment: there are hurdles to volunteering to teach as Haskell. Administrators are working on this.
  • We talked with the Provost about the Gateway District letter, and we have a list of who to send this to.
  • Dual employment. We let the Provost know we are working on a letter from SenEx urging them to investigate this again.
  • We are tyring to see if we can get data from HLC syllabi project about Excused Absences.
  • There are issues with testing centers and the excused absences.
  • Reminder that HLC is next week.
  • Inclement Weather Policy. There may be a committee/task force to review the policy.
  • Question about the student newspaper (UDK) funding cut. This got sent back to a committee. There are many questions about student funding. The students should be able to give an update at University Senate. 

 

New Business

P&T Criteria: time of hire versus time of being evaluated. A suggestion was for this to be a shared governance issue.

Brendan Matting made a motion to move to closed session to discuss a personnel issue on the FRB committee. Josh Arpin seconded. Moved to closed session.

Meeting adjourned.


FacEx-February 25, 2025


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