Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes s11

Faculty Summer Senate Meeting Minutes July 10, 2017 Please email corrections to [email protected]

1. Call to order Acceptance of Agenda: Gioia Woods Faculty Senate President Gioia Woods called the meeting of the NAU Faculty Summer Senate (FS) to order in the Room 200 of Cline library at 3:00 pm. Members Present: Samantha Clifford, Nora Dunbar, Dorothy Dunn, Dan Eadens, Pam Foti, Bruce Fox, Sibylle Gruber, Susan Harris, Lauren L’Ecuyer, Amanda Meeks, Sean Parsons, Roy St. Laurent, Blase Scarnati, Anne Scott, Ed Smaglik, Philippa Winkler, and Gioia Woods.

Others present: Roger Bounds, Laurie Dickson, Joanne Keene, and Susan Laurer (attended electronically).

2. Acceptance of Agenda: Gioia Woods Gioia presented the agenda for approval. A motion was made and seconded to approve the agenda The motion passed.

3. Report from the President President Cheng Vice President Joanne Keene reported for the President on the following:  Four candidates for the position of NAU Chief of Police were on campus this week.  Eva Putzova has announced her retirement.  Isa Rueda has announced her retirement, Brian Register has been hired in her stead.  The President will begin regular meetings with Gioia and Roy St.Laurent in their capacities as FS President and Chair of the ACC respectively.  Other retirements include Priscilla Mills and the Community Liaison.  She gave a brief update of on-going construction projects.

4. Report from the Provost Provost Kain Vice Provost Laurie Dickson presented the following information for Provost Kain:  At this time, we are seeing a slight increase in enrollment.  She spoke to the various preparations that have taken place in anticipation of the HLC accreditation.

5. Faculty Senate President’s Report Gioia Woods Gioia reported on the following:  ABOR approved the Recital hall renovation.  The AFC met during the ABOR meeting and discussed various topics they are looking at including: the topic for the breakfasts with the Regents at all 3 universities; a possible draft of a policy regarding faculty harassment; the idea of a faculty representative on the board; and visiting the UofA’s career track model.  New faculty orientation will take place August 22nd. She asked for help to man our information table. Sibylle Gruber, Pam Foti, Anne Scott, and Dan Eadens volunteered.  The Regents have affirmed their support of the DACA program.

1  ASNAU has elected Lauren L’Ecuyer as their President. Lauren spoke for a few minutes regarding some of the goals ASNAU has laid out for the coming year. She also discussed the process of selecting a student regent from NAU that will take place this year. Lastly, she invited Gioia to attend an ASNAU meeting this fall.

6. Senate Website Sibylle Gruber/Pam Foti/Susan Harris Sibylle Gruber noted that the FS website committee met to work on the new format and content under the WordPress system. The committee will continue its work on design as we move forward in the process.

7. Safety Advisory Blase Scarnati Blase Scarnati a first draft of a Safety Advisory handout. This document was created in collaboration with the NAU Faculty Senate, the Academic Chairs Council, the NAUAAP, and the NAU Police Department.

8. Benefits Committee & Strategic Planning &Budget Bruce Fox Bruce reported that the Benefits Committee has met once and will meet again tomorrow. They expect that health costs will go up this year especially the medication segment of coverage. He will keep the Senate posted as more information becomes available. Regarding strategic planning and budgeting, he reported that a lot of helpful information was gathered last fall. They are working on a 2nd draft of the plan. They also meet tomorrow. He then entertained questions.

9. Update on ABOR Breakfast with the Regents Gioia Woods/Bruce Fox Bruce gave a brief background of what has been done over the last four breakfasts. This year’s topic for discussion will be shared governance. Gioia will send out an email asking for names of faculty who might like to participate and may have experience in the shared governance process they would like to share. Once the names are in she will work with Bruce and others helping to select invitees. It is important to make sure the selection of invitees allows for diversity in all areas. More information will be available in the fall.

10. Old Business/New Business Items/Announcements/Adjournment Gioia Woods There being no further announcements or old or new business the meeting was adjourned.