Faculty Senate

A quick recap of two key items of interest discussed at the September 10th Faculty Senate meeting

  • The Provost’s Advisory Committee on University-wide Academic Structure (the follow-up to the ASET committee) is meeting with the Provost on September 19th. After this initial meeting, the Provost plans to announce to the campus community the Advisory Committee’s membership, explain its work and lay out the recommendation and review process. Faculty Senate leadership is providing guidance to outline the bottom-up review and approval process that campus would follow in the event the Advisory Committee recommends a change to the existing college structure.
  • A faculty-led task force was charged last spring by the Faculty Senate with reviewing our Student Opinion Survey (SOS) processes and recommending changes to the Provost. Collecting data on student evaluation of instruction is a system requirement. As we transition to a One University Three Campus institution our university-wide SOS instrument and the delivery, collection, and dissemination processes must change. The infrastructure we have used in the past to administer the SOS (both the paper and D2L versions) will be soon obsolete within the year, and a new process must be in place for Fall 2020. The SOS Task Force enjoys inclusive representation of faculty and instructional staff with attention paid to the different types of instruction offered across our three campuses. Additionally, the Task Force members include university staff representatives who are attuned to the technical issues associated with analyzing, disseminating and protecting SOS data and who are knowledgeable about the available informational technology solutions. The SOS Task Force will be reaching out for faculty and instructional staff feedback about potential changes later in the fall.