AGENDA MATERIALS

Institutional Reports

• Faculty Senate President’s Report (PDF) (Steve Scheck)
• University President’s Report (PDF) (Jesse Peters) President Peters is unavailable, see the President’s April 17 report to the WOU BOT.
• Provost’s Report (PDF) (Jose Coll)
• Interinstitutional Faculty Senate (no report)  (Cheryl Beaver/Tad Shannon)   

Old Business

1. No old business

New Business 

1. No new business submitted

Informational Presentations 

1. Calculations for distribution of Faculty Senate seats in 2024-2025 (Stewart Baker)

 2. New Senators join current Senators at the 2nd Senate meeting in May  (May 28)

Open Discussion 

Continuing discussion initiated at April 9 Senate meeting:

1. 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?

Oregon has OARs on degree requirements. Link to Secretary of State. Static download.

2. 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.

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

Announcements 

        HSI Summit this Friday.  Information.

 Supplemental documents

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

College Restructure Taskforce Final Report December 14, 2022