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In Attendance (In-person):

College of Arts and Sciences: Mark Broom, Jennifer Fowler, Ian Lian, Pat Heintzelman, Matt Hoch, Jiangjiang (Jane) Liu, Amand Allison, Jennifer Thedford, Raouth Kostandy, Sharon Joffe, Melissa Riley, Raymond Doe, Cheng-Hsien Lin, B. Garrick Harden

College of Education and Human Development: Eunjin Kwon, Mohamad (Khal) Hamza, Kathryn Washington, Daryl      Ann Borel

College of Business: Ashraf El-Houbi, Vivek Natarajan, Kelly Weeks, Tim McCoy

College of Fine Arts and Communication: Andre Favors, Paul Eric McCluskey, Millicent Musyoka

College of Engineering: Chun-Wei Yao, John Gossage

Library: Penny Clark

Absent:

College of Arts and Sciences: Elia Hatfield, Jim Armacost

College of Education and Human Development: Daniel R. Chilek

College of Business: Gevorg Sargsyan

College of Fine Arts and Communication: Stephen Malick, Brielle Frost

College of Engineering: Clayton Jeffryes, Mien Jao, Maryam Hamidi

Library:

Call to order

3:32 p.m.

President Taylor's Minute

• 1923 Dinner was a great success. A video will be forthcoming.
• Committed to instructor equity issue and salary changes.
• Complimented Dr. Lin and thanked him for his hand work, tenacity, and advocating for changes of policies.
• College of Business Dean Search update

Approval of Minutes

• MAPPS/ Policies
  • Dr. Lin will bring comments to Dr. Theodori
• Instructor Equity Adjustment
  • To be implemented effective 2024-25 year
• Faculty Survey not finalized
• Review of Faculty Handbook

Faculty Senate Committee Chair Reports

• Budget and Compensation - Jennifer Fowler
  • Equity Adjustment for instructor equity.
  • University Merit MAPP sent to Dr. Theodori
• Faculty Affairs - Sujing Wang
  • Syllabus in concourse is the official syllabus.
• Academic Issues - Melissa Riley
  • Collected comments regarding office hours MAPP and sent to Dr. Lin
• Research & Creative Activity - John Gossage
  • No report
• Faculty Evaluation - Millie Musyoka
  • Faculty Climate Survey: low response, results not finalzed.
• Faculty Handbook - B. Garrick Harden
  • Committee continues to meet on Sundays.
  • August 31 deadline discussed

Old Business

• Dr. Lin express appreciation to Committee chairs and members for their hard work during the year.

 

New Business

• Faculty Senators were reminded to pick up their backpacks.
• Jennifer Fowler and Daryl Ann Borel introduced a procedure for votes of confidence/ no confidence or censure of administrators. Recognizing that the Faculty Senate at Â鶹ÊÓƵ holds the authority to initiate a Vote of Confidence, a Vote of Censure, or a Vote of No-Confidence i executive members of the Administration (associate vice presidents, vice presidents, and the President), a structured process should be in place to ensure fairness and orderliness, with ample opportunity for administrators to address faculty concerns. Fowler and Borel asked senators to review the draft; to be discussed in the Fall.

Adjournment

Vivek Natarajan motioned to adjourn; Melissa Riley seconded. Passed unanimously.

The meeting of current faculty senators adjourned at 4:10 p.m.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Faculty Senate Special Meeting Minutes - CONTINUING AND NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS - ELECTION OF OFFICERS

Date/ Time: May 1, 2024, 412 p.m. - 4:49 p.m.

Location: CICE Rooms 113 A&B

Submitted by: Dr. Daryl Ann Borel

 

Presiding: Dr. Cheng-Hsien Lin

In Attendance (In-person):

College of Arts and Sciences: Mark Broome, Jennifer, Pat Heintzelman, Matt Hoch, Jiangjiang (Jane) Liu, Brian Williams, Emma Morris, Jennifer Thedford, Raouth Kostandy, Sharon Joffee, Melissa Riley, Raymond Doe, Cheng-Hsien Lin, B. Garrick Harden

College of Education and Human Development: Daryl Ann Borel, Eunjin Kwon, Mohamad (Khal) Hamza, Donna Fong

College of Business: Ashraf El-Houbi, Vivek Natarajan, Kelly Weeks, Tim McCoy, James Slaydon, Minkyum Kim

College of Fine Arts and Communication: Andre Favors, Paul Eric McCluskey, Paul Hemenway, Millicent Musyoka

College of Engineering: Xuejun Fan, XianChang Li, Xing Wu, John Gossage

Library: Penny Clark

In Attendance (Online):

College of Arts & Sciences: Tina M. Kibbe, Sujing Wang, Mark Mengerink, Cengiz Sen, Wen Liu, Perumalreddy Chandrasekaran

College of Education and Human Development: Shelly Allen, James Laub 

College of Business: Xiao "Jerry" Zhang

College of Fine Arts and Communication: Lilian Felipe, Chelsea Lyles, Alan Brincks

College of Engineering: Gleb Tcheslavski

Library: Poornima Gunasekaran

 

Absent:

College of Arts and Sciences: Ian Lian, Elia Hatfield, Jim Armacost

College of Education and Human Development:Katherine Sprott, Daniel Chilek

College of Business: Gevorg Sargsyan

College of Fine Arts and Communication: Brielle Frost, Xenia Fedorchenko

College of Engineering: Maryann Hamidi

Library:

 

Call to order - Oficer elections special meeting

4:12 p.m.

 

President:

• Cheng-Hsien Lin: 27 votes
• Kelly Weeks: 22 votes

Vice President

• Garrick Harden: 29 votes
• Melissa Riley: 21

Secretary

• Daryl Ann Borel: 21 votes
• Pat Heintzelman: 29 votes

John Gossage motioned to adjourned; Vivek Natarajan seconded. Passed unanimously.

The special meeting of continuing and newly elected members adjourned at 4:49 p.m.

 

Submitted by:

Dr. Daryl Ann Borel

Faculty Senate Secretary