The meeting was called to order by President Eric Plummer. Members present included senate members La\u2019Tricia Davis, Brenda Garrett, Charles Honza, Josh Kee, Shelly Whaley, Kendra Copeland, Essie Moore, Ceil Bridges, Eric Plummer, Gaye Calhoun, Cynthia Blake, Sandra Smith, and Houston Taylor. Visitors included Daniel Page.<\/p>\n
Approval of Minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n The minutes from the January 20, 2010 meeting were approved with a motion from La\u2019Tricia Davis and a second from Josh Kee.<\/p>\n Old Business<\/strong> Committee Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n Faculty Senate Meeting Report Research Committee New Business<\/strong> Other<\/strong> Also, it is reported that SAU is #1 in the state for graduate student hour increases.<\/p>\n Adjournment<\/strong> The meeting was called to order by President Eric Plummer. Members present included senate members La\u2019Tricia Davis, Brenda Garrett, Charles Honza, Josh Kee, Shelly Whaley, Kendra Copeland, Essie Moore, Ceil Bridges, Eric Plummer, Gaye Calhoun, Cynthia Blake, Sandra Smith, and Houston Taylor. Visitors included Daniel Page. Approval of Minutes The minutes from the January 20,… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"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":[21,18107],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-resources","7":"category-staff-senate-minutes","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe possibility of education benefits for part-time employees was discussed. In the past, a few part-time employees have received insurance benefits. It was proposed that maybe a 25% tuition waiver could be approved for part-time employees. Eric will discuss the issue with Roger Giles and report back next meeting. A motion to table this discussion until the next meeting was made by Charles Honza and seconded by Essie Moore.<\/p>\n
\nThis report was postponed.<\/p>\n
\nCeil Bridges reported that the Human Subjects Committee recently met. No other information was given.<\/p>\n
\nThere was no new business.<\/p>\n
\nShelly Whaley shared about various degree requirements that are coming in the future and the efforts to match our curriculum with what is being required by legislation in Higher Ed. <\/p>\n
\nThe motion to adjourn was made by Josh Kee and seconded by La\u2019Tricia Davis. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"