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Attendance Record
Senate Officers:
Daniel Svyantek, Chair; Don Mulvaney, Secretary; Chair-elect; Michael Baginski, Secretary-Elect Beverly Marshall; James Goldstein, Immediate-Past Chair
Administration: Kelli Shomaker, VP Business and Finance and CFO; Betty Lou Whitford, Dean College of Education; George Flowers, Dean of the Graduate School; Paul Patterson, College of Agriculture; Richard Hansen, Dean Harrison School of Pharmacy; Bobby Woodard, VP for Student Affairs

Absent, not sending substitute:
Taffye Clayton, VP & Assoc. Provost of Inclusion and Diversity; Royrickers Cook, Associate Provost and VP for Outreach; Janaki Alavalapati, Dean, School of Forestry and Wildlife Science

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

Senators, by Department:
Absent, not sending substitute:
Michelle Worosz, Ag Economics and Rural Sociology; Werner Bergen, Animal Sciences; Rebecca O’Neal-Dagg, Architecture; Cliff Defee, Aviation Management; Anthony Moss, Biological Sciences; Kai Chang, Computer Science and Software Engineering; Ann Beth Presley, Consumer and Design Sciences; Lee Colquit, Finance; Latif Kalin, Forestry & Wildlife Science; Daniel Wells, Horticulture; Katrina Akande, Human Development and Family Studies; Greg Schmidt, Library; Alan Walker, Management; Daniel Mackowski, Mechanical Engineering; Chippewa Thomas, Outreach; Eric Marcus, Philosophy; Malti Tuttle, Special Ed. Rehabilitation Counseling/School Psych.; Robin Jaffe, Theatre;

Attending or Represented by Substitute
Lisa Miller, Accountancy; Stephen Nichols for Anwar Ahmed, Aerospace Engineering; Paul Brown, ACES; Chad Faradori, Anatomy Physiology and Pharmacology; Chris McNulty for Kathryn Floyd, Art; Yi Yang, Biosystems Engineering; Mark Tatum, Building Science; Bryan Bechingham, Chemical Engineering; Doug Goodwin, Chemistry; Cliff Large, Civil Engineering; Ed Youngblood, Communication and Journalism; Allison Plumb, Communication Disorders; 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; David Held, Entomology & Plant Pathology; Russell Wright for Ash Bullard, Fisheries and Allied Aquaculture; Zachary Zuwiyya, Foreign Lang & Literatures; Wade Morse, Forestry & Wildlife Science; Ming-kuo Lee, Geology & Geography;
Kimberly Garza, Health Outcomes and Research Policy; Monique Laney, History; Carlton Lay, Industrial Design; Mark Schall, Industrial and Systems Engineering;
Andreas Kavazis, Kinesiology; Dora Bock, Marketing; Dmitry Glotov, Mathematics and Statistics; Kristen Leitterman for Matthew Hoch, Music; David Crumbley, Nursing; Yee Ming Lee for Michael Greene, Nutrition, Dietetics, & Hospitality Mgmt.; Vicky van Santen, Pathobiology; Wesley Lindsay for Spencer Durham, Pharmacy Practice; Michael Fogle, Physics; Cathleen Erwin, Political Science; Ken Macklin, Poultry; Tracy Witte, Psychology; 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; Annette Smith, Veterinary Clinical Sciences.

Minutes
Despite difficulties with the functionality within the audio visual system in the auditorium, Chair Dan Svyantek called the meeting to order at 3:40 pm. He 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. With 49 senators, a quorum requiring 44 senators was established. The minutes of the February 13, 2018 Senate meeting were approved without modification by voice vote.

Remarks and Announcements
Office of the Provost or President
Provost Hargrave offered several remarks. He reminded all of President Leith’s Installation scheduled for March 29 from 10 to 2. He encouraged faculty and students to attend this once in a lifetime experience. He also mentioned that Building Science faculty and staff were recognized with the Program Assessment Excellence Award. He commented on the importance of assessment and how it provides systematic guidance into our programs and enables opportunities to improve them. He commented on an earlier in the day news announcement about John Mason’s appointment as the next Chancellor at Penn State Harrisburg. Senate members publicly applauded John for his 10 years of service to Auburn. Provost Hardgrave noted that Marilyn Laufer from the Museum retires as of June 1 and an interim will be sought to serve until a National search yields a replacement. He updated everyone on the Dean of the Library where an interim dean is to be named this week. A national search for dean will be conducted. In closing, he congratulated Professors Billor and Wilson for being elected as officers of the University Senate and that he has appreciated working with the University Senate Executive 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.

AU Libraries, in collaboration with ITHAKA S+R (a survey company), is working on a faculty survey focused on the impact of digital technologies on research, teaching, and scholarly publishing. Your responses will provide valuable guidance for AU Libraries in setting priorities and developing strategies to support the teaching and research needs of faculty members. The data from the ITHAKA S+R survey will be meaningful only if we have broad participation. Faculty will be receiving an email from Dean Bonnie MacEwan with more information and a link to the survey. The scheduled rollout of the survey is March 21.
He reminded all that Dr. Steven Leath will be formally installed as Auburn University’s nineteenth president on Thursday, March 29 at 10 a.m. in Auburn Arena. The ceremony will include the conferring of the articles of office and Dr. Leith’s inaugural address. If unable to attend, you can watch by livestream at www.auburn.edu/auburninspires.

Mike Fogle, Faculty Research Committee COSAM representative discussed some history on a previous Scholarship Incentive Program, which was only a salary savings program and had contentious issues. He reported on the work done by FRC to develop a suitable SIP. In a survey of 324 faculty from diverse units across campus 4 primary barriers were identified. [These areas were: 1) lack of time, 2) lack of recognition and incentives, 3) lack of opportunities in different fields of study, and 4) university structural issues. He then presented a resolution that requests the Office of the Provost to work with the academic units to develop appropriate scholarship incentive program(s) that are inclusive to all meritorious forms of scholarship, not administratively over burdensome, and serve to promote the growth of the research enterprise at Auburn University.

Question: James Goldstein inquired about the timeline for achieving these guidelines. Fogle responded that the FRC believes it’s clear this SIP is something we wanted to get in place as soon as the other one was terminated, but we wanted to do due diligence and to show explicitly that you can’t just have a one mechanism (this is it, and that’s it consideration). We think it’s important that it be bottom up in development. Certainly, there is an emphasis on getting this done in a timely fashion. We just didn’t want to explicitly say the time.

Don Mulvaney, Senate Secretary and Chair of the Rules Committee commented on the 2-year commitment role of the Rules Committee and involve assigning or populating the various committees for the University and the Senate and he opened the floor for nominations. Mike Baginski, chair-elect nominated Jitendra Tugnait from Electrical and Computer Engineering. James Goldstein nominated Tracy Witte from Psychology and Jung Won Hur, Senator, EFLT nominated Michelle Worosz from Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. Asking for any other nominations asked for a motion to close the nominations. The motion passed. Daniel Svyantek, Chair noted that each of the nominee’s biographical statements will be available on the Senate Web site.

Beverly Marshall. Auburn’s Faculty Athletic Representative representing Auburn University at the NCAA. She presented a detailed report from the Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics showing the various NCAA formulas used to arrive at progress rates, retention rates and graduation rates. Her report is published on the website and detailed data for AU and comparisons to other SEC institutions.

A question from Michael Stern, Economics, inquired about any analyses by race and presented information that he suggested implies aggregation by major. An exchange between Stern and FAR Marshall ensued and concluded with her commitment to research the matter and provide an update at a future Senate meeting.

Unfinished Business:
Dan Svyantek, Senate Chair

New Business: Mike Baginski, Chair-elect informed everyone of a parking app WarEagleParking that’s available and that it can show you where the spaces are available he commented that it works and is supposed to work at night.

Dan Svyantek, Senate Chair
Dan Svyantek, Senate Chair, declared adjournment of the meeting at 4:25 pm.