Minutes of Senate Steering Committee
May 10, 2018, 3:30-4:32
Samford 206

Present:   Dan Svyantek (Chair), Donald Mulvaney (Secretary), Michael Baginski (Chair-Elect), Beverly Marshall (Secretary-Elect), Emmett Winn (Associate Provost), Michael Tillson, Lucretia Tripp, Jared Russell and Nedret Billor (2018-2019 chair-elect).

Absent: Bill Hardgrave (Provost), James Goldstein (Immediate-Past Chair), and Lisa Kensler
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Svyantek at 3:30 pm and an agenda with attachments was provided. As a first item of business, the Steering minutes from April 12 were approved.

Agenda items:

• Chairman Svyantek called on Lindsay Doukopoulos, Associate Director of the Biggio Center to preview a Senate presentation of the Testing Services and opportunities available to faculty.
  
  
• Chairman Svyantek called attention and discussion to a memo from Ralph Kingston, Chair of the Faculty Handbook Committee, regarding promotion processes and departmental governance around the assimilation of Extension Specialists into academic departments.  Discussion included observation that the title of Extension Specialist exists as a faculty category in the handbook. However, past performance roles would have been evaluate as A&P guidelines. Emmett and steering will look into the topic to gain greater clarity.
  
  
• Beverly Marshall, FAR, presented a preview of updated information about graduation rates to be shared to the Senate on 5/15/18.
  
  
• An additional item for the Senate was a correction to the number of faculty representatives mentioned in the recently changed University Senate Constitution 2.1.2 Article 4 Section 1 regarding the inclusion of representation from the Libraries Data Management Librarian group to serve on the Faculty Research Committee.

The agenda for the Senate meeting for5/15/2018 which includes remarks from Provost Hardgrave, two Action Items of voting on the correction from the Faculty Research Committee membership, voting on Rules Committee recommendations to various Senate committees was discussed. Also on the agenda are two information items: opportunities for testing services and Athletic Department Updates to be presented by Beverly Marshall and Allen Greene, Athletic Director.

The Agenda was approved.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:32 PM.

Prepared by:  D. Mulvaney, Secretary, AU Senate