AGENDA MATERIALS

Institutional Reports

• Faculty Senate President’s Report (PDF) (Steve Scheck)
• University President’s Report (PDF) (Jesse Peters)
• Provost’s Report* (PDF) (Jose Coll)
• Interinstitutional Faculty Senate (no report)  (Cheryl Beaver/Tad Shannon)   

• *Provost Coll has requested that Paige Jackson present an update on the early alert system (slides)

Old Business

1. No old business

New Business 

1. No new business submitted

Informational Presentations 

1. The General Education Committee has approved an AA transfer degree from Chandler-Gilbert CC (AZ) as meeting WOU’s General Education program requirements. (Shaun Huston)

2. An International Education & Services Committee update on Study Abroad programming. (Ya-Fang Cheng)

3. The Executive Committee would like to open discussion on what is essential for fulfilling degree requirements; specifically, credits vs learning outcomes for major and minor requirements. How firm are minimum credit counts in the major and minor?

4. The Executive Committee would like to open discussion about the difficulty we are experiencing in staffing Faculty Senate-related committee assignments or Faculty Senate positions. We will be issuing the annual faculty service survey. How can we deploy ourselves more efficiently to have effective committee functioning without over-taxing the faculty?

5. The Executive Committee would like to open discussion on how Faculty Senate can be a valuable source of shared governance as we support defining and implementing the new university strategic plan.

Open Discussion 

•   Call for future business items
•   Closing discussion items from the floor

Announcements 

 Supplemental documents

Considerations for Equity for post-traditional students presentation December 12. 2023 

College Restructure Taskforce Final Report December 14, 2022