{"id":1136,"date":"2015-10-15T11:49:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/facultysenate\/?p=188"},"modified":"2015-10-15T11:49:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:49:26","slug":"september-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/2015\/10\/15\/september-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2015 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-189 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/facultysenate\/files\/2015\/10\/Faculty-Senate-Logo-1024x270.jpg\" alt=\"CampusLogoVPAA\" width=\"1024\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>MINUTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Building #221\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9\/17\/2015 3:40 PM<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Attendance:\u00a0 Dr. Shane Warrick, Dr. \u00a0Louis Roy, Dr. Svetlana Paulson, Dr. Alec Testa, Dr. Neelie Dobbins, Dr. Pat Clanton, Dr. Ron Smith, Dr. Copie Moore, Dr. John Hutchens, Dr. Sheila Pearson, Dr. Sara Day, Dr. \u00a0Stacy Clanton, Dr. Juping Wang, Dr. Scott White (for Dr. Abdel Bachri)<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Officio:\u00a0 Vice President Donna Allen, Dean Kim Bloss-Abernathy, Mr.\u00a0 Jasper Louis, Dr. Ben Johnson, Mr. \u00a0Roger Giles.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors:\u00a0 Dr. Gerald Plumlee, Dr. Terrye Stinson, Jake Dunham, Staff Senate<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Agenda Topics<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Call to Order<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The meeting was called to order by Dr. Tim Wise, Faculty Senate President.<\/p>\n<p>Reading of Proxies and Substitutes \u2013 Dr. Pat Clanton held Dr. Denise Moseley\u2019s proxy, Dr. Ron Smith held Dr. George White\u2019s proxy, and Dr. Scott White attended for Dr. Abdel Bachri.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Approval of Minutes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>April 16, 2015 Faculty Senate Minutes- Dr. Stacy Clanton moved to approve and Dr. Scott White seconded.\u00a0 Motion to approve carried.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Special Orders of the Day<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remarks- Dr. Ben Johnson, Interim VPAA represented President Berry.\u00a0 He reported that enrollment is at a record high this fall.\u00a0 SAU is the only four-year institution south of Little Rock to have an increase in enrollment rather than a decrease. However, there was a decline in sophomore enrollment. \u00a0In response to a question, Dr. Johnson stated that faculty COLA raises will be addressed sometime in October.\u00a0 A search committee to begin a search for Provost will also begin in October.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gerald Plumlee presented an overview of the \u201cMentor\u201d project for annual summaries. The system is being piloted this year with the idea that it might provide an easier method of constructing the annual summaries each year.\u00a0 Dr. Alec Testa suggested that along with the pilot in Business at least one other college might want to pilot the program.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Old Business<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None brought forward.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Business<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Dr. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Terrye Stinson reported that she is heading a joint committee to revise the Mission Statement of SAU.\u00a0 This committee will consist of representatives from the faculty senate, the staff senate, along with a student representative and a representative from external constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty Senate Committee Membership- Sara Day, Faculty Senate Vice President was in charge of elections for vacancies on Faculty Senate Committees.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Adjournment<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Dr. Copie Moore moved to adjourn, and Dr. Alec Testa seconded the motion.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting adjourned at 4:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Attachments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 *Senate Liaisons to Standing Committees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by Pat Clanton, Faculty Senate Secretary <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINUTES &nbsp; Agriculture Building #221\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9\/17\/2015 3:40 PM &nbsp; Attendance:\u00a0 Dr. Shane Warrick, Dr. \u00a0Louis Roy, Dr. Svetlana Paulson, Dr. Alec Testa, Dr. Neelie Dobbins, Dr. Pat Clanton, Dr. Ron Smith, Dr. Copie Moore, Dr. John Hutchens, Dr. Sheila Pearson, Dr. Sara Day, Dr. \u00a0Stacy Clanton, Dr. Juping Wang, Dr. Scott White (for Dr&#8230;. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/2015\/10\/15\/september-minutes\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8422],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minutes","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}