June 11, 2024

MEETING INFORMATION

Date

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Time

3:15 – 5:15 p.m.
Business 3:30 – 5 p.m.

Due to simultaneous meeting of the WOU Board of Trustees, this Faculty Senate meeting will be held in Zoom format, only.

Zoom link:

https://zoom.us/j/8766137254?pwd=ZS83UlpaVkJRMVM5K0VncENRb1M0Zz09

Agenda

Meeting Agenda (DOCX) (PDF)

Draft Minutes

Draft Minutes for May 28, 2024 (DOCX) (PDF)

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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 Report (Cheryl Beaver/Tad Shannon)   

Old Business

1.  Executive Committee puts forth the following individual(s) for the position of: 

Faculty Senate Secretary:  

                 Dr. Patricia Giménez-Eguíbar (Humanities Division)

                    _____________________________________________

Faculty Senate President:

                    _____________________________________________

 

Faculty Senate Vice President:

                     _____________________________________________

 2. Additional feedback from Senators on the curriculum working group’s proposed plan for (summer) work on a new curricular portal process — using Curriculog — for oversight of existing courses/programs.  This implementation was initially presented as an open discussion at the May 14, 2024 Faculty Senate meeting. (Judith Sylva, Amanda Smith, Amy Clark, Camila Gabaldón, Leanne Merrill, Thaddeus Shannon, Melanie Landon-Hays, Steve  Scheck)

New Business 

         No new business has been submitted

Informational Presentations 

7.1.  Informational presentation – “Federal requirements for Regular and Substantive Interaction in online classes.” (Chelle Batchelor, Breeann Flesh, Kristin Latham-Scott)                                         

Open Discussion 

1.  Executive Committee members Katherine Schmidt and Leanne Merrill have been unsuccessful in building a slate of candidates for the President and Vice President positions in 24-25.  Next steps?

Continuing discussion initiated at April 9 Senate meeting:

2. The Executive Committee would like to continue 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?

3. The Executive Committee would like to continue 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…from guests

Announcements 

Commencement June 15: https://wou.edu/commencement/

 

 Supplemental documents

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

College Restructure Taskforce Final Report December 14, 2022