Faculty Senate Minutes
Friday, August 28, 2015OC 118
2:00PM to 3:20PM
In attendance: Tom Hiebel, Meg
Allan, Andrea Barnett, Gregg Corley, Stacey Frank, Justin Herndon, Laura McClain, Timeko McFadden, Lacey Torge.
Welcome and Agenda
·
Tom
Hiebel introduced the agenda for the meeting
Minutes of June 22, 2015
·
Were
distributed and approved via electronic vote prior to this meeting.
Guest Presentation
·
Richard
Parker discussed the forming of a task specific project team that will be
charged with building a model best practices for lean higher education. Project members are being recruited from each
division. The project charter is currently under development. There will be
more communication related to this activity as the project progresses.
Old Business
·
Tom
Hiebel reported on the information he had obtained about the governance
structure of the institution. He
provided the basic framework for Advocacy Groups, Division Committees and task
specific project charters.
·
The
faculty senate expressed an interest in having more access to information about
the membership and ongoing activities of committees and projects. Tom will
follow up to see if there is a mechanism available for providing more details
and more frequent updates.
Adjunct Elections
·
The
process for electing adjunct faculty and lecturer representation for Faculty
Senate will follow the same process as in the past. Tom will follow up Human Resources to obtain a
current listing for nominations.
Meetings
·
Recommendations
for ongoing meeting times will be made based on a review of outlook calendar availability.
New Business
·
Faculty
have expressed concern about the availability of parking. Meg Allan agreed to follow up with Security
about current practices for enforcement of reserved parking for faculty and
staff and will report via e mail.
With no further
business the meeting was adjourned at 3:20PM.
Recorded by: Meg Allan, 8/28/2015
