“I feel very, very confident and optimistic about where we are as an institution,” she said. “On the HSC front, we are able to accrue savings faster than I thought we would. We need to be able to say we are delivering on what we are promising, so this is good news.”

Because of this, Bendapudi noted in a campus-wide email sent Thursday that UofL has requested a smaller loan for the facilities – from the original $50 million to $35 million.

“We are anticipating a procurement savings of more than $7 million annually and we will make operational reductions of nearly $10 million after year one,” she said.

This loan request will be up for a vote in Frankfort during this legislative session.

Also, Aaron Thompson, president of Kentucky’s CPE, visited UofL as the last stop on his state-wide listening tour. He shared high-level observations about college affordability and mental health resources. More information about Thompson’s .Ěý

Provost Beth Boehm also provided an update to senators, noting that UofL kept its dorms open over the winter break, a new decision she called “very successful.”

“There are two groups who especially took advantage of this, LGBTQ students who may not have the opportunity to go home, and international students who may not be able to afford the travel to go home,” she said, adding that meals were donated by a handful of companies during break for those students.

Boehm also noted that the student well-being committee has met to talk about what faculty members can do to help students be more successful, both academically and personally.

“Students have a lot of roadblocks to work around and we need to try to reduce those,” she said.

Other committees up and running since the semester started include:

• IBM group
• Advising work group
• Consensual sexual policy
• Faculty accountability
• Also, an open educational resources committee has been created to ensure our students have easy access to resources

Mark Watkins, senior associate vice president of Operations, and Gary Becker, assistant director of Parking Administration, provided an update on upcoming construction on the Belknap Campus. Starting in May 2020, construction will begin on a new residence hall where the Miller Hall parking lot currently sits. This new residence hall is scheduled to open in August 2021. The existing Miller Hall will be demolished in May 2022.Ěý

In May 2021, Threlkeld Hall will be demolished and construction will begin on a new residence hall at that location in June 2021. It is slated to open August 2022.Ěý

These construction projects are facilitated through $90 million funded from the state.

Additionally, as part of that phase one construction, the Cultural Center will be torn down and rebuilt.Ěý

A brief update was provided from the benefits design work group, which meets in February. In the meantime, the employee benefits guiding principles are .Ěý

The Academic Programs Committee shared two proposals:

• A bachelor of Business Administration from the College of Business. This degree is meant to be more of a generalist degree, versus our current bachelor of science in Business Administration program, which takes a deeper dive into functional areas of business such as accounting, economics and marketing.
• An MS in Materials and Energy Science & Engineering from the Speed School. Currently, UofL does not offer any degrees in advanced materials and energy science and engineering.

Both proposals passed.

Second readings were held for a for the School of Dentistry, and more extensive update for the Speed School of Engineering’s personnel documents, including a . Both were approved.

There was no report from the Student Government. The Staff Senate report from December is and includes a budget update from CFO Dan Durbin. There is no January meeting for that body.

Faculty Chair Krista Wallace-Boaz announced that Kevin Gardner has been named executive vice president for Research and Innovation effective Jan. 27 pending board approval. Gardner comes to UofL from the University of New Hampshire, where he served as vice provost of research.

Wallace-Boaz also presented a timeline for the provost search, expected to ramp up in late February with airport interviews. Three to five individuals will be brought on campus in March and April, and a final committee meeting will be held in April.

The Student Success Center has created a group for campus partners to discuss initiatives regarding first-generation students. Areas of discussion include potential collaboration, prevention of redundant programming and unique obstacles this population faces.

The next Faculty Senate meeting is Feb. 5 in Chao Auditorium.

The American Council on łÉČËÖ±˛Ą (ACE) fellowship, established in 1965, is designed to strengthen institutional and leadership capacity in American higher education by identifying and preparing faculty and staff for senior positions in college and university administration. Thirty-eight Fellows, nominated by the senior administration of their institutions, comprise the 2019-20 cohort at colleges and universities across the nation.

“Selection as a host institution is a sign of the outstanding reputation and commitment to excellence at the university,” said Sherri Lind Hughes, director of ACE Leadership and a 2002-03 ACE Fellow. “An ACE Fellow chooses an institution not only for its rigorous academic environment and high-quality efforts to educate students but also its strong desire to invest in the future of higher education senior leadership as well.”

The ACE Fellows Program combines retreats, interactive learning opportunities, campus visits and placement at another higher education institution to condense years of on-the-job experience and skills development into a single academic year. The Fellows are included in the highest level of decision-making while participating in administrative activities at their host institutions. Time is also spent investigating a specified issue of benefit to their nominating institutions for implementation upon the Fellows’ return to campus at the conclusion of the Fellowship placement.

During her time at UofL, Assudani will work alongside President Neeli Bendapudi and Provost Beth Boehm on projects related to the strategic plan. In partnership with Gail DePuy, associate dean for academic and student affairs, she will offer expert opinions on the plan’s implementation in the coming months.

Assudani has earned graduate degrees in both the Netherlands and India, as well as her doctorate in strategy and organizations from McGill University in Montreal. She also was selected for a leadership program through the Harvard Kennedy School. In addition to her expansive education, she has published and presented on numerous topics related to her field.

Over 2,000 higher education leaders have participated in the ACE Fellows Program over the past five decades, with more than 80 percent of Fellows having served as senior leaders of colleges and universities.

Bendapudi provided an update on the 2019 budget, which she noted is the first time the HSC campus broke even. HSC programming, particularly pediatrics, is expensive to run, costing about $12 million to $15 million a year. This is why UofL pursued its recent partnership with Norton Children’s Hospital.

“This partnership supports our teaching and academic mission, provides for better care and helps with the budget,” she said.

Bendapudi also discussed the in which UofL reached an agreement to assume its Louisville-area assets. The agreement came two months after initial negotiations ended when UofL could not find a suitable partner to help fund the acquisition. However, support from both the state and two local foundations revived the talks to save the struggling Jewish Hospital and other vital area medical facilities.Ěý

“In June, we said we couldn’t do the deal because the terms were not good for us. What changed since then is we were able to get the right support,” Bendapudi said. “This deal helps with our teaching mission, our research mission. It helps us attract the best faculty and get grant money. Most importantly, it helps with clinical care.”

Jewish Hospital receives about 3,000 ER visits a month and, of those patients, about 19% are admitted.

“These are our neighbors. Where would they go? How are we fostering equity if these huge numbers of patients don’t have a bed?” Bendapudi said.

These assets also generate about $300 million worth in payroll, so she reiterated the impact it would have on employees in the community.

“We still have a lot of work to do, don’t get me wrong. But this is the right thing to do for the Commonwealth,” Bendapudi said.

Bendapudi also noted that the three-year time frame for the Strategic Plan starts now. UofL will host kickoff events for the plan Sept. 23 and 24.

“We all need to hold each other accountable so we can make sure this is a great place to work.” she said. “I’m excited to get started. After a year of plugging holes, we can now look at this plan and ask, how can we grow?”

Provost Boehm provided an update from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities conference she attended over the summer. One of the biggest topics discussed at the event was student mental health and Boehm is charging a committee that looks at faculty/staff roles in student mental health. She also noted that the Counseling Center is moving back to the Belknap Campus, either in January or February, with a space at the SAC.

“Forty-six percent of students have a diagnosable mental health issue and half of those are untreated. Seventy-six percent of college students say that mental health issues interfere with their academics. This is a critical topic that we are going to focus on,” she said.

“The best determinant of how well a student performs is if one adult shows they care about them,” Bendapudi added. “Please look out for our students. I can’t think of anything we do that is more important.”

Regular meeting

Dr. Ralph Fitzpatrick, senior vice president for Community Engagement, opened up the regular meeting to discuss the Cards Come Together initiative. This inaugural week of service, led by UofL President Neeli Bendapudi, will feature several service projects across the city as well as collection sites on campus. The objective is to get 1,000 faculty, staff and students to participate. A complete list of projects is available online at events.louisville.edu/cardscometogether.

A kickoff celebration will be held at the Red Barn Oct. 22 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Todd Kneale, director of Total Rewards, reminded staff senators that open enrollment is Oct. 23 through Nov. 6 and HR will issue a number of communications prior. He also provided an update on the health insurance increases scheduled to go into place in 2020.

These increases are in response to the market and to UofL’s previous approach to ratios, which he said were not actuarially based. Correcting them will be a multi-year process, starting with the 2020 increases. More details will be sent about those plans and the increases this week.

Lydia Burns gave an update from SGA, which is hosting a “Chat with the (UofL Police) Chief” on Sept. 16 to discuss safety initiatives on campus. The group will also host Constitution Day at the Red Barn Sept. 17 with a number of representatives expected to participate.

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The next Staff Senate meeting is Oct. 14 in CTR 101/102 on the HSC Campus.

Michael Wade Smith, chief of staff and external affairs, provided an update on the Strategic Plan, recently approved in principle by UofL’s board of trustees. Smith said the plan includes the strategy and metrics we’re going to hold ourselves accountable to, which will guide our actions significantly for the next three years.

“The secret sauce for us behind this plan is how we make this a great place to learn, work and invest,” he said.

For the “learn” piece, for example, one strategy includes attracting and graduating the most talented, diverse student body through meaningful and structured commitment to student success. That includes actions like attracting and enrolling a capable, diverse and engaged student body responsive to the demographic and workforce needs of the future; improving retention and persistence to graduation; ensuring progress toward equal outcomes for student sub-populations; and inspiring a “student-centered culture.”

“Also, we’re going to lean heavily into the benefit of being a Research 1 university and, as we grow our research prominence, doing so with our students in mind,” Smith said.

Metrics include increasing scholarship awards, enrollment, retention and graduation rates.

For the “work” piece, Smith said the biggest focus is on professional development and, over time, creating a culture based on Cardinal principles. We will also be working on a total compensation study, knowing we’re under market for salaries.

“We aren’t going to get there in three years because what we need to catch up is larger than we can handle. But we have to start taking meaningful steps to solve the gap and I hope you’ll hold us accountable for making meaningful progress,” he said.

Another directive from the strategic plan is to focus on a handful of key topics that make us unique; for example that UofL is one of just 69 schools in the country that is both a Research 1 university and  Carnegie-designated for community engagement.

“We want to own four to six areas that are broad enough for multiple disciplines, but are specific enough for us to focus on,” Smith said, citing aging as an example.

Speed professor Gail DePuy has been tasked with heading the implementation of the Strategic Plan. A committee will be populated to help her, reporting progress updates regularly. There will be Strategic Plan kickoff events announced soon.

The search is underway for a new EVP of Research and Innovation, and Smith expects this to be filled by October. An RFP is out to help with the provost and general counsel searches. These positions should be filled by next summer at the latest.

Smith also discussed the recent KentuckyOne Health announcement, in which UofL agreed to acquire its assets, including Jewish Hospital. Smith said the vote will be finalized in Frankfort in January and confessed it will take some work to get 16 senators on board.

“Our acquisition of KentuckyOne Health was not contingent on government funding. No one in the administration will say this is without risk. But the risk of not doing the deal would have sunk the university. The risk of doing the deal would not sink the university,” he said.

Teresa Reed, the new School of Music dean, was introduced to the senate. She said her priorities include interdisciplinary opportunities – for example, music therapy with a jazz track – and student success.

Provost Beth Boehm provided an update on the one-time money that went toward recruiting and retaining students. She said 57 projects in total have been funded and most of them have shown real progress so far, including a summer camp that was held for out of state students prior to Welcome Week.

There are three new committee needs that have been identified: an advising task force, which will look at best practices on how to improve student advising; student mental health; and the IBM implementation committee.

Finally, Todd Kneale, director of total rewards, provided an update on health insurance rates, which are increasing in 2020. Ahead of open enrollment, Oct. 23-Nov. 6, HR will host a number of town halls to provide an overview of these changes.

Additional actions taken

Also during the meeting, the revised CEHD bylaws were approved, while the certificate in Teaching English as an International Language and MS in Couples and Family Therapy program proposals were approved.

Committee elections took place. Karen Hadley from A&S, fills the academic programs committee vacancy; Kimberly Boland, Medicine, will fill the executive committee vacancy; Jocelyn Fetalver, Kent School, fills the part-time faculty committee vacancy; and Joe Gutmann, A&S, Chad Sloan, Music, Brecya Washington, Dentistry, and Roman Yampolskiy, Speed, fill the student conduct hearing board vacancies.

Sabrina Collins from the SGA, provided an update from her group, noting that there are two major initiatives underway – improving scholarship publicity and creating an RSO to facilitate undergraduate research.

The next Faculty Senate meeting is Oct. 2 at 3 p.m. in CTR Room 101/102 on the HSC Campus.

She said 46% of our students report having a mental health issue, and 23% of those students did not get help.

“There are not enough counselors on our campus for this issue,” she said. “Faculty need to help. They need to know who needs help.”

Boehm said UofL can approach this issue in a few ways:

• Creating a coalition of faculty allies
• Training faculty, chairs and deans on signs to look for
• Changing syllabus language to be more flexible or include how students can get help
• Encouraging faculty to work with students on extensions if there are legitimate needs

“There are curricular issues that contribute to stress. Faculty need to pay attention to different learning styles. We need to get our aging faculty to understand that our students are different from us,” Boehm said.

Boehm added that many universities are now focused on well being versus just mental health. Also, Stanford University has a resiliency program required for all students.

“These are some things we’ll look at more,” she said. “It is important to get faculty involved because this is an important piece of student success.”

Additionally, Boehm said 57 proposals have been submitted to receive funding for recruitment and retention projects. An update will be available in September. A revenue target steering committee has been formed and is working with each unit to find additional revenue solutions. Boehm said the committee has been charged with reviewing what needs are a priority.

An enrollment management advisory committee has also been busy working to identify challenges and solutions. Both committees are critical now as the university continues to recover from a budget crisis.

Boehm said the bookstore has received nearly 90% of course adoptions so far, which is a big jump from this time last year. She thanked faculty for being more urgent with this, as these early orders benefit students.

Also during the meeting, Justin Mog, assistant to the provost for sustainability initiatives, provided an update from his department. Included in his report was an overview of the progress UofL has made to earn a STARS Gold rating.  

With a 66.24% score, UofL is the most sustainable school in Kentucky, ahead of No. 2 Berea College, with 65.95%. The next highest score was JCTC with 58.80%. In the ACC, UofL is fourth behind just Virginia Tech, North Carolina and Virginia.

Mog said his department is now working to achieve the next level – platinum. To do so, he outlined the following strategies, among many others:

• Increase courses offered that are sustainability-focused or related.
• Increase the number of students who graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability-learning outcome.
• Administer a sustainability literacy assessment to the student body.
• Increase research-producing faculty and staff that are engaged in sustainability research.
• Administer a longitudinal assessment of sustainability culture.
• Get more staff to participate in annual sustainability professional development training.
• Engage the entire student body in community service.
• Re-join the Worker Rights Consortium or the Fair Labor Association.

Mog also noted that UofL has decreased its carbon footprint by 13%.

“We are decreasing emissions even as we are growing and that is great news. But we have a lot of work left to do,” he said.

A few faculty senators pressed Mog on why this work in particular is important and he said students are concerned about their future.

“They are wrestling with an existential crisis,” he said.

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Todd Kneale, director of total rewards, said a benefits design workgroup has been formed to ensure we’re getting the most efficient benefits.

“We have really good benefits and we want to make sure we maintain that. We spend over $60 million a year. By 2020, we expect that to be $70 million,” Kneale said. “There will be an increase but we don’t know what that means yet.”

In other news, Krista Wallace-Boaz , including a breakdown of the 2018-19 promotion and tenure statistics. They are available online.Ěý

Two academic program proposals will be discussed at the next meeting – Teaching English as an International Language in CEHD and Family Therapy in the Kent School of Social Work.

The Faculty Senate will not meet in August. The next meeting is Sept. 4 in Chao Auditorium.

The body approved a second reading for Redbook changes to the Kent School bylaws, which were mostly procedural updates.

The Student Government Report included concerns about UofL’s online course selection and its correlation with retention efforts.

Chair Krista Wallace-Boaz reported that she will start monthly office hours on the HSC campus, as will Staff Senate Chair John Smith and SGA president Jonathan Fuller.

The UofL Foundation has reported that S&P has boosted the foundation’s rating from negative to stable. The rating is based in part on ULF’s significant steps to restore confidence in governance and improve transparency; governance reform that includes three non-voting constituent members; and changes in senior management.

Additionally, HR has asked for senators’ input regarding what makes UofL a great place to work, as well as what changes are necessary to make UofL a great place to work. The executive committee is currently addressing these questions and the Faculty Senate will continue to provide input. So far, the list includes:

What currently makes UofL a great place to work

• The people
• The location in Louisville
• The diversity of our students, staff and faculty and the institution’s commitment to inclusion and equity
• Rich in both talent and diversity

What changes are necessary to make UofL a better place to work

• Investing in our people
• Re-committing to systemically improving inclusion and equity
• Doing more to build community instead of narrowly focusing on finding efficiencies
• Suffers from a lack of community mission
• Under-resourced in terms of funding and staffing
• Transparent and open communication – more opportunities needed for open communication among faculty and staff
• Work/life balance
• More training and development
• Recognition for hard work
• Strong team spirit (programs and physical environment need to be designed to accomplish this)

A discussion followed the presentation of this list, with some faculty senators expressing concern about systemic issues regarding implicit bias and the lack of investment in buildings and compensation.

The Belknap Academic Building Pedestrian Plaza project is underway. The creation of a drive that replaces Brook Street and maintains service access to the Northwest portion of the main campus has long been desired. The transformation of this portion of Brook Street from vehicle to pedestrian traffic is a major improvement to campus, and the creation of a pedestrian plaza to replace Brook Street will be an amenity to campus. There will be two phases of this project, which are outlined .Ěý

Provost Beth Boehm provided the president’s report in Neeli Bendapudi’s absence, noting that the president has spent much of her time working on HSC issues to ensure the community’s health care needs are met in a time of change. Tom Miller has been appointed as CEO of ULH, which should help with some of this workload.

Strategic planning efforts are underway and Bendapudi has requested feedback from across campus, as well as alumni and community partners, which generated 60 pages of comments. She is hosting an executive cabinet meeting Friday to dive into this information. Among the priorities within that strategic plan are research and professional development/compensation.

Bendapudi’s looking at a three-year plan. She believes that longer plans are not as useful, Boehm said.

Boehm also provided a report from her office, noting that we have been given a clean bill of health from SACS and designated a Carnegie Research 1 institution.

Boehm also shared Bendapudi’s proposed changes to the Redbook so that fewer administrative appointments go through the Board of Trustees. A committee has been appointed to look at potential Redbook changes that clean up obsolete or inconsistent language and to gauge where appointment efficiencies can be made.

The Mayor’s Office has urged UofL to offer more computer-savvy degrees. There are currently 120 such degrees offered on campus, mostly through Computer Information Systems in the College of Business or through the Speed School of Engineering. The idea is to bring in more programs that can be leveraged by analytical areas, such as philosophy and English. The goal is to get to 720 programs.

“The Mayor is also asking UK and Bellarmine to do more here. I don’t want to lose this opportunity to those institutions,” Boehm said.

Senators held a discussion about timing and expressed concerns about resources.

Bob Knaster and Gary Becker provided an update on the Parking Strategic Plan.

UofL’s parking issues include constrained space, zero budget for operational and deferred maintenance, limited availability for visitors and events and decreasing proximity increases safety issues. The parking office has engaged a consulting firm to look at these issues and the firm returned 70 recommendations. Among them are:

• Budget and plan for new parking
• Add maintenance to the parking budget
• Charge for all visitor parking
• Implement LPR enforcement
• Promote transit services and cross parking
• Add transportation services, augment cameras and lighting
• Implement zone-based parking permits
• Introduce new services to improve the customer experience

LPR technology means license plate recognition. Knaster said this could free up hours a day for police officers who are tasked with monitoring permits.

A lengthy discussion was held on the office’s next steps. In response to some concerns about proposed rate increases, Knaster said, “one of the worst decisions we made was to not increase the cost of parking for six years. Now we’re under water and playing catch up.”

The Parking Strategy presentation is .Ěý

The next Faculty Senate meeting is Feb. 6 at 3 p.m. in Chao Auditorium

Bendapudi said UofL’s cash on hand status has been a concern, but credited CFO Dan Durbin and his team for making up some ground. SACS’ response is expected next week and if it is a good report, UofL will not have a major review for another 10 years.

“SACS told us this is the most transparent and thorough report they’ve received. We were upfront with them because there is no other way,” Bendapudi said. “I’m optimistic.”

The president also provided an update on UofL’s strategic planning process. asking employees for their input on what needs to be included in the plan to make UofL a great place to learn, work and invest. Bendapudi reminded senators that it is also important to increase our focus on research.

“We have a great opportunity to be an urban research university but we have got to increase our research productivity,” she said.

From January through June, more details will emerge on the timeline, metrics, etc. that will go into the strategic plan.

In other news, a search will be underway in January for an EVP of research. The goal is to have someone in place by fall 2019.

The EVP for health affairs search has been paused because of ongoing issues on the HSC campus.  

“The HSC campus is a great point of pride, but there are financial implications and the losses and challenges can be impactful for the rest of the university. We’re trying to figure out how we handle Jewish Hospital (closing),” she said. “I can assure you there are a lot of good people doing a lot of good for the university with these issues, but until we have more clarity, we’re going to wait (on the EVPHA search).”

Bendapudi also noted that she is continuing to work on streamlining reporting lines so we’re better able to function as a university “as a whole.”

“In the past, we’ve had each leader making decisions that were good for their unit, but perhaps not good for the university as a whole, so we’re working on reporting lines and trying to bring us all together, including athletics and HSC,” she said.

Bendapudi reassured faculty senators that the Bobby Petrino buyout did not include “one penny” from the academic budget.

“I’m very pleased with the financial checks we’re putting into place,” she said. “It’s also important that we are bringing people in who understand the big picture – that it’s not a win-at-any-cost mentality.”

Finally, Bendapudi noted that UofL is making progress in fundraising.

“I feel much more optimistic today than a month ago. I am confident in the team we’re putting into place,” she said.

As far as fundraising goes, Brad Shafer, interim VP for University Advancement, said he is working to correct some major issues in the department, including lack of resources.

“There has been significant dysfunction in the advancement office and lack of activity,” he said. “For a university our size, we should have 70 to 75 development officers. When I came on board in July, we had 13.”

Shafer said donors are telling him that they’re not going away, they’re just waiting for conversations to happen again. Under his leadership, corporate foundation and planned giving is moving under a central function, and he is also adding six areas that didn’t previously exist, such as parents, international and women’s philanthropy.

“Phase one is filling out the leadership team so that every college has at least one senior development officer. Phase two is filling out those teams; so the Speed School, for example, should have four to five people,” Shafer said. “Phase three, we’re fully staffed for a capital campaign. Hopefully that will start in the next two years.”

Shafer would like to add development seminars that educate and coach faculty and staff on how to help with the fundraising process.

Provost Boehm also provided a report, reiterating how positive the SACS visit was. There are two searches underway, including School of Music dean and CIO.

Boehm said UofL’s participation in the Powered by Publics program, announced last month, is aimed at improving college access, closing the achievement gap and helping students earn a degree by 2025.

“We are going to focus on evidence for retention and success versus throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks,” Boehm said.

A committee has been formed to clean up the Redbook. Boehm said this hasn’t been done in about eight years.

“We need a clean set of policies to govern us,” she said.

The meeting opened with a memorial to Dr. Thomas Crawford, a chemistry professor who passed away on Nov. 1.

“He taught me every good thing I know about administration work,” said Professor Dale Billingsley.

Krista Wallace-Boaz provided the chair’s report, noting that Faculty Senate leadership will begin work with HR and possibly the ombudsman to create a “toolbox” for faculty members through mini trainings. Some of the topics will include academic bullying, having difficult conversations and mentoring.

Provost Beth Boehm has also asked the Faculty Senate to explore ideas regarding faculty/student mentorship program. The chair and vice chair, along with a subcommittee, will develop initial ideas for the program, aimed at improving retention rates. Wallace-Boaz also reminded faculty senators to recognize signs of students who may be in distress, .Ěý

There were two Redbook items, including the first reading of revised unit bylaws for the Kent School of Social Work, and the second reading for revised unit bylaws for the School of Public Health and Information Sciences. The SPHIS changes were approved.

The SGA approved their budget and met with Provost Beth Boehm recently to work on retention initiatives. The group is also working to extend feminine hygiene products to all bathrooms across campus.

During the Staff Senate’s November meeting, John Elliott, VP of HR, provided an update on two policies that are under review, and noted that the university’s compensation process is dated and the office is working to update those. Staff senators also heard from Bob Knaster, executive director of Auxiliary Business Services, about the transition to Canon print services, and Police Chief Gary Lewis about his safety initiatives. .Ěý

Reports from the Academic Programs, Redbook and Bylaws, Planning and Budget and Human Resources Advisory committees are . The Faculty Athletics Representative report is .

The next Faculty Senate meeting is Jan. 9 in Chao Auditorium from 3-5 p.m.