Auburn University Steering Committee
Minutes
Thursday, August 20, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
206 Samford Hall

Present: Larry Teeter (Chair), Patricia Duffy (Immediate-Past Chair), James Goldstein (Chair-Elect), Laura Plexico (Secretary), Keven Yost, Lisa Kensler, Bliss Bailey, Timothy Boosinger, Emmett Winn, Bobby Woodard
Absent: Emily Myers, Xing Ping Hu (Secretary-Elect)

The minutes of the Steering Committee meeting from August 6, 2015, were approved with a minor modification.

Bliss Bailey gave an update on the new server policies for the registration and management of servers. OIT is developing a standard set of security policies.  The data will be classified according to level of risk. Full time professional IT member will have access to all servers to make sure they are run in a secure manner. The policy and their current state of development will be presented to the Senate for the August 25, 2015 meeting as an information item.

Next item discussed was the dissolution of 3 student affairs committees: Fraternities and Sororities, the Student Center, and Campus Recreation. Bobby Woodard, the VP student affairs reviewed the purpose of the committees. Campus recreation committee efforts are being duplicated by an advisory board. The Campus recreation committee has been inactive and not meeting for several years. Meetings called have been poorly attended. The student center committee meets once a year and provides a tour of the facility. Fraternities and sororities committee has not met in two years. Students are now self-governing themselves and have their own adjudication process. Members of steering expressed concern over what benefits are lost if the faculty lose representation and input into the areas covered by those committees. After a brief discussion it was decided to move a motion forward to the present to dissolve those committees.

Emmett is in the process of distributing the list of people for administrative review. Staffing is not necessary at this time. Following that discussion, steering discussed the needs for staffing of unfilled University and Senate committees. The tentative agenda for the August 25 Senate meeting was reviewed. It was suggested that Beth Guertal discuss work life balance and the outcomes of her research from the COACHE survey outcomes at the September senate meeting. Rusty Weldon from the University bookstore would also like to come and present on the timely assignment of textbooks.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:45.