Minutes of the Auburn University Senate Meeting
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
238 Broun Hall
3:30 P.M.
A full transcript is available for this meeting.

Attendance Record
Senate Officers:
Daniel Svyantek, Chair; Don Mulvaney, Secretary; Chair-elect; Michael Baginski, Secretary-Elect Beverly Marshall; James Goldstein, Immediate-Past Chair

Administration: George Flowers, Dean of the Graduate School; Janaki Alavalapati, Dean, School of Forestry and Wildlife Science; Amy Wright for Paul Patterson, College of Agriculture; Paul Jungnicle for Richard Hansen, Dean Harrison School of Pharmacy;

Absent, not sending substitute:
Taffye Clayton, VP & Assoc. Provost of Inclusion and Diversity; Kelli Shomaker, VP Business and Finance and CFO; Royrickers Cook, Associate Provost and VP for Outreach; Betty Lou Whitford, Dean College of Education; Bobby Woodard, VP for Student Affairs;

Ex-Officio
Emmett Winn for Provost Hardgrave;  Julia Wiard, Interim Director for IDSC for the University College; Lucretia Tripp, Steering;;  Jared Russell, Steering Committee ;Lisa Kensler, Steering Committee

Absent, not sending substitute:  Bonnie MacEwan, Dean of Libraries; Michael Tillson, Steering; Lawrence Hamberlin, A&P Assembly Chair; Jacqueline Keck, SGA President; Tenchi Smith, GSC President; Charlene Thomas, Staff Council Chair; Committee.

Senators, by Department: 
Absent, not sending substitute: 
Michelle Worosz, Ag Economics and Rural Sociology; Werner Bergen, Animal Sciences; Rebecca O’Neal-Dagg, Architecture; Kathryn Floyd, Art; Anthony Moss, Biological Sciences; Mark Tatum, Building Science; Ann Beth Presley, Consumer and Design Sciences; David Held, Entomology & Plant Pathology; Lee Colquit, Finance; Latif Kalin, Forestry & Wildlife Science; Daniel Wells, Horticulture; Katrina Akande, Human Development and Family Studies; Carlton Lay, Industrial Design; Mark Schall, Industrial and Systems Engineering; Daniel Mackowski, Mechanical Engineering; Eric Marcus, Philosophy; Michael Fogle, Physics;

Attending or Represented by Substitute
Lisa Miller, Accountancy; Stephen Nichols for Anwar Ahmed, Aerospace Engineering; Paul Brown, ACES; Chad Faradori, Anatomy Physiology and Pharmacology; Rebecca O'Neal-Dagg, Architecture; Cliff Defee, Aviation Management; Yi Yang, Biosystems Engineering; Bryan Bechingham, Chemical Engineering; Doug Goodwin, Chemistry; Cliff Large, Civil Engineering; Ed Youngblood, Communication and Journalism; Allison Plumb, Communication Disorders; Kai Chang, Computer Science and Software Engineering; Charles Chen, Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences; Melody Russell, Curriculum & Teaching; Forest Smith, Drug Discovery and development; Jung Won Hur, Educational Foundations, Leadership;; Michael Stern for Liliana Stern, Economics;  Jitendra Tugnalt, Electrical & Computer Engineering; James E. Ryan, English; Ash Bullard, Fisheries and Allied Aquaculture; Zachary Zuwiyya, Foreign Lang & Literatures; Ming-kuo Lee, Geology & Geography; Kimberly Garza, Health Outcomes and Research Policy; Monique Laney, History; Andreas Kavazis, Kinesiology; Greg Schmidt, Library; Alan Walker, Management; Jeremy Wells for Dora Bock, Marketing; Dmitry Glotov, Mathematics and Statistics; Matthew Hoch, Music; David Crumbley, Nursing; Yee Ming Lee for Michael Greene, Nutrition, Dietetics, & Hospitality Mgmt.; Chippewa Thomas, Outreach; Vicky van Santen, Pathobiology; Spencer Durham, Pharmacy Practice; Cathleen Erwin, Political Science; Ken Macklin, Poultry; Tracy Witte, Psychology; Malti Tuttle, Special Ed. Rehabilitation Counseling/School Psych.; Jeff Welborn, Lieutenant Colonel, ROTC Air Force; Lieutenant Colonel Roshun Steele, ROTC Army; Andrew Chiconie for Captain Willie Billingslea, ROTC Navy; Arianne Gaetano, Socio/Anthro/Social Work; Robin Jaffe, Theatre; Annette Smith, Veterinary Clinical Sciences.

Minutes
At 3:30 PM, Chair Dan Svyantek called the meeting to order and reminded the members of the senate or substitute for a senator to sign in in the back of the room and for substitutes to sign in by printing his/her name on the 2nd column by the senator. He also reminded the Senator rules about speaking at Senate meetings. A quorum requiring 44 senators was established. Don Mulvaney served as Parliamentarian.

The minutes of the January 16, 2018 Senate meeting were approved without modification by voice vote.

Remarks and Announcements
Office of the Provost or President
President Leath was out of town but Provost Hargrave offered a few remarks.  In the first 6 wks of the new role, he expressed pleasure and progress at visiting schools and colleges as part of the priority to have a customer focus  toward colleges in which the Provost Office is dedicated to serve.  He achnowledged the hard work of the senate leadership, the Promotion and Tenure Committee.  He indicated that a national search for a Business Dean and that has been ongoing since the middle of January. There is an external search firm that’s working with the College on that search. The second search, Dean Bonnie McEwen announced her retirement effective April 1. He commended Emmett Wynn as Chair of the search committee for the interim Dean of the Libraries. A national search will be launched and Dean George Flowers is chairing that team.
Questions:  None

Comments by University Senate Chair, Daniel Svyantek
Chair Svyantek introduced the Senate officers, administrative assistant Laura Kloberg and Don Mulvaney sitting in for Jim Witte as parliamentarian. 

• He indicated that he attended the AU Board of Trustees meeting last Friday where Dr. Leath expressed a goal of making Auburn University recognized as an institution of world-class scholarship and research. Dan committed the   Senate and Senate Leadership to working closely with him in making this mutually important goal a reality.

Agenda Action Item:

• The presentation of the academic calendar for the 2020-21 academic year. The calendar was presented by Robin Jaffe, Chair of the Calendar and Schedules Committee. Jaffe  elaborated on the many factors involved and challenges in building the academic calendars and thanked the committee for their work. A motion to accept was issued by Jaffe and  passed with a vote of 43 for and 2 against.

Agenda Information Items:

• David Pascoe, AU Ticketsprovided updates on new and existing rules regarding ticket purchases and use.  He highlighted the process for monitoring tickets for the Intercollegiate Athletics by faculty and staff. He emphasized that staff and retirees that violate the policy can lose ticket purchasing ability permanently.
• Don Mulvaney, Senate Secretary presented the slate of officer candidates as developed by the nomination committee chaired by Robin Jaffe. The candidates are: Chair-elect candidates; Dr. Billor and Dr. Rotfeld and for Secretary-elect is Dr. Marghitu and Dr. Wilson. Mulvaney noted the voting will begin February 26 and it will close on March 5. He will send out some reminder information and e-mails on voting. Chairman Svyantek reminded everyone that results of the vote will be announced at the General Faculty Meeting on March 6

Unfinished Business:
Dan Svyantek, Senate Chair
None

New Business: 
Dan Svyantek, Senate Chair 
None
Dan Svyantek, Senate Chair, declared adjournment of the meeting at 3:53 pm.