As my first official act. I hereby call this meeting to order. Yes. I realized as I was walking on the way over, you know, for years I've come to faculty senate meetings, coming to sit down and wait for things to happen. And you get the reflection as you're walking in that it's not going to work that way today when you're when you're the moderator. So I want to welcome all of you here. I've got some reminders. These faculty senate meetings are audio recorded. Sometimes the content of these meetings is important and senators have been known to listen to these recordings afterwards and there forever the podcast feed, sometimes they get transcribed when things get heated and people want to go back and see exactly what did somebody say. So wanted to make you aware of that, that these meetings are recorded and cell phones interfere with the recording. So we would ask that your cell phones should either be turned off or switched into airplane mode. And when I recognize you to speak here on the Senate floor, you should always identify yourself for the record by stating your name and department. And there are lots of yellow cards here in the room. So these yellow cards serve a dual purpose. These are for voting as well as for attendance. There very important, you can't vote without your yellow card. So you should always pick up your yellow card at the beginning of the meeting and to make sure it will be here in the next Senate meeting. You should always give it back at the end of the meeting. And through that process, that's how attendance is taken here. In this first meeting, if there are any errors on your yellow card, we would ask that you just make the corrections right on the card itself and then we'll have that corrected for you for the next meeting. So the person to hand your card to under weigh out is Karen **** spry. I just want to introduce her. Karen is the administrative assistant in the faculty senate. I think she faces a great challenge. I hit her job. She she doesn't know, I'm going to tell you this, but she reports directly to the president of the faculty senate. And the president of the Faculty Senate does her evaluation each year. So can you imagine knowing that every year you're going to report to somebody different and you don't know whether they will have a clue about how to manage people and fill out evaluations and those kinds of things. So I think Karen just in that one respect, of course, she does many other things for the Senate. She handles things for the Senate that are very confidential. And there are things going on that even I don't know about. So in the presentation, I'm going to make it a little while about how faculty governance works here at yield UD, you'll see how that committee process is set up. And there's no one person in charge of everything here because things route in different ways through our governance system. If you cannot make a senate meeting, you should inform Karen about this. She's Karen at u del.edu and that's what the double r you can hear me rolling that are right when I say Karen or you can call her at 83129 to one Now, this has never happened, but we always have to mention this, that if a senator Mrs. more than three meetings, you have three on excused absences. Your dean will be notified and replacement election will take place. So that's never happened. We hope not to set that precedent this year. I'd like to introduce and acknowledge the members of the executive committee. The president elect as Babu paella. Bob, would you just stand and let them see? Maybe you guys could Bob, if you just say what department you're from as I introduce you, just give a real quick it. And Danny Galileo, past president Biological Sciences? Yes. And I'm indebted to Danny for the excellent job he did helping me prepare for being president this year. I learned a lot from him last year and procedures. Adi preside as vice president and Anu silver Aman, who is our Secretary. And Brian Hansen, who is the chair of cocaine, which is the Committee on Committees and nominations. And last but not certainly not least, John jab, who is our parliamentarian and i am and he is a senator from English. So he has two cards right. There you go. So yeah. So sometimes you vote with one, sometimes you vote, although only your yellow card votes, right? Only the yellow card bits. Alright, so as you will see when I get into the presentation on governance, the executive committee serves a very important function here at the university. So it is important to know who they are and be able to communicate your concerns with them as well as with me as the year proceeds. So our first formal action today is to adopt the agenda. This agenda was posted at the Faculty Senate website and it was emailed to all of you. So it's not a complex agenda because there are no motions on it. We will be having some presentations. We might get some new business introduced. By rule. The Senate cannot act on new business in the same meeting in which it's introduced, we can discuss it, but the only action you can take is to refer it to a committee. So do I hear a motion to approve the agenda? Thank you. Oh, and is there a second? Very good. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded to approve the agenda. All those in favor say those opposed. You see, I've spent the week reading Robert's rules and you can take a voice vote if it's going to be something that's pretty obvious. So I won't always be asking you to raise your yellow cards just in the order of efficiency, right. So the second order of business is to approve the minutes. And these minutes Are are posted online and they actually have had some corrections made to them. These corrections are minor, but there have been some minor wording changes and there has been a clarification of names and a couple of spots there. They flashed before your eyes. Let's see. So yes, so you can see very light at its basically specifying names of people who made motions. Just to have parallel language in a in a passage which is naming all the other people who were involved in the motion. Are there any further amendments OR changes to the to the corrections to the minutes? Okay. Hearing none, I guess I should entertain a motion to approve the minutes. Phil. Thank you very much. I can just look to the center of the room and get emotion. Is there a second? Fine. It's been moved and seconded that we approve these minutes. All those in favor say yea. And any opposed. Thank you. The motion passes and it is now my pleasure to present our first speaker. Just lost my slide though. C. Don't worry, I can get it back. Let's say somehow I, I closed it. So probably the most fitting slide to have for our provost is just the first one with this nice picture of the university seal. So I let me present Dominik agressive, Provost of the University of Delaware. >> Thank you, President Hofstetter, it's a real privilege to be here today. I'd like to start by introducing new members of the provost's office. I'd like to start with Carol Henderson, who's vice provost for Diversity. Carol, stand up so everybody can see. And we also have Matt Qin survey who is vice provost for diversity, and Chris loose here who's vice president for who's already standing for enrollment management. I welcome this opportunity to share my vision for the university, especially how we can work together to build a stronger judy through collaboration, open communication, and shared governance. Time has been moving very quickly. It feels like I just blinked and suddenly I'm in my second year as Provost. >> The first year was a great learning opportunity and I'm very excited to work toward cultivating a more collaborative and inclusive environment for our collective success. >> Inclusiveness is a value I hope we all share. >> And in that spirit, >> I'll be holding town meetings in the fall to continue making myself available to the campus community. >> Through these meetings, I want to hear and learn from our diverse viewpoints to enhance my effectiveness as leader. And I'd also hope to have more incidental opportunities to get to know everyone better, such as attending seminars and lectures and just walking around campus. In fact, as part of our recently awarded NSF Institutional Transformation grant, I promise to do just that. And this is a quote to visit faculty labs and offices and interact with faculty groups and talk and formally. >> So I hope to do that quite a bit over the fall and in the spring. >> This is just another way of communicating that. As provost, I'm here to serve the campus community, students and faculty as someone who cut his teeth in the classroom and in research laboratories. I maintain the highest regard for our entire faculty. >> I'm invested in the success of every faculty member in every faculty role. With that in mind, I'd like to shift our lens forward to the time of next year, 2015, a year from now, I'd like to be standing here and telling you that we've had great accomplishments we've that we've achieved together and reports. Then in 2014 was we had an incredible year. >> We saw the entrance of one of our largest, most diverse, most qualified first-year classes ever. >> And since that class, we've established a greater capacity to attract more top quality, innovative, and diverse students. I'd also like to report that in another area of importance are C and T. >> T commission took on major issues that sometimes with thorny and had broad implications for our entire university. >> Their process was and continues to be a model for shared governance. >> By this, I mean, we truly demonstrated that together we can live up to the ideals and work toward common goals to bring about real substantive results, results that make a difference in our workplace. Even when the issues are complicated and the resolutions to problems don't come easily. Finally, I'd like to report that our strategic plan, delaware will shy, was embraced and has helped usher in transformational change at the university. There was serious engagement and lots of input because I believe we place a premium on being inclusive and UD is now poised to be a model for the nation. I'm confident our plans will help us be the best version of ourselves that we can be a campus that holds itself to the highest standards of research and excellence in teaching. And as we pursue this course, you deal will become known as a research university that never stops teaching or learning. That is what I'd like to be able to say a year from now. Oh, and it goes without saying that along the way, we've likely picked up a few Rhodes scholarships, Guggenheim Fellowships, National Academy memberships, and maybe even a MacArthur or Nobel again. And then let's see if those 12 or 13 or 18 or however many universities are now in the Big Ten can keep up with us. >> In closing, I see many new opportunities that we can create together. I want us all to share and the commitment that it will take to get there and share in the feeling of accomplish accomplishment as we achieve our goals. To be certain with a with a daring spirit, bold delaware will shine. >> Thank you. Thank you, provost grosso. Normally at this point in the meeting, the President would be talking about items related to previous business, tracking items, letting everyone know the status of motions since we don't have any pending Beyond the Sea and tt issues that Dean Watson will address shortly when he makes his presentation. I decided that I might best make a presentation about faculty governance here at the University of Delaware. Now this got previewed when I made it for the incoming NEW faculty, so it's already been tried out on them. And as Matt conserving knows, when Matt invited me to make this presentation for the new faculty and he called it faculty governance at the University of Delaware. I suggested that I would rather have it be entitled shared governance. Maybe I can make the light a little better here for you all. Because if you go to the, the AAUP site and you try to find information about faculty governance. You find that nationally, this is not called faculty governance, it's called shared governance. But here at Udi, we certainly have a culture of calling this faculty governance. I noticed in Dominik goes presentation, he mentioned shared governance. I think that's what we have, but it's, I think it's also fine to call it faculty governance. So I ended up agreeing with mat that we might as well call it faculty governance at the University of Delaware. So whatever you call it, there's a line of authority. There are some very important policy documents. And in this short presentation, this is brief, I'm going to provide some examples of how this works here at the University of Delaware and how I hope it will work during the year. So first of all, to establish some context, the University of Delaware is a great place. It's hailed as this public gem. During the past year, more than 30 thousand donors contributed $64 million in support. Of the University. It's an outstanding university. And you can notice in my last bullet here, some very carefully chosen adjectives. A distinguished board, our board truly is distinguished. It, it consists of some of the top business leaders and legislators and service in the, in the state. And they worked tirelessly for no pay. And I'll talk a little more about what the board does shortly. And aggressive administration. Notice the adjective aggressive and a dedicated faculty, right? Of course, we are dedicated who keep things in balance. Alright, so this presentation shows how we do that. So in terms of the line of authority, our university was founded in 1743, was chartered by the state in 1833. And the line of authority from the charter to the faculty passes through the Board of Trustees bylaws, the UD faculty constitution, the Faculty Senate by-laws, and the standing committee system of the Faculty Senate. And I would just point out that this is a committee system of the faculty and it's senate. It is not a committee system of the senate, it's a committee system of the faculty and the Senate. There are some things that happen in these committees that don't actually pass through the Senate. The faculty share further and governance through the AAUP, which negotiates our collective bargaining agreement. All UD faculty belong to the bargaining unit. And later in this presentation, I'm going to explain why it's important to become dues paying members. Not all the members of the bargaining unit dues paying members. And that can create problems, as I'll point out. And UD enjoys a symbiotic relationship between the union and the Senate. The faculty senate president sits x official on the AAUP Steering Committee. And in a little while I'll show you some clauses that link the Faculty Senate to the Union. So on February the fifth, 1833, the General Assembly of Delaware pass this act creating new art college. And in 1913, the General Assembly made this a perpetual charter. It was interesting that they moved, I voted and approval that the General Assembly may not any further modify the University of Delaware charter. This was then codified into the Delaware Code of 1953. And in paragraph 5111, the faculty receives its powers. And it's interesting to see that wording that's, that's going back to 1913. That the faculties shall have the care, control, government, and instruction of the students and will confer degrees and grant diplomas. So the Board of Trustees then created their bylaws. And these bylaws organized the board into committees and further define the faculty's powers. And the committees of the board are the Executive Committee, academic affairs, finance, grounds and buildings, honorary degrees and awards, Public Affairs and advancement, and student life and athletics. And the Board defined the role of the faculty to formulate and administer the academic and educational policies of the University. And the Board defined responsibilities of the faculty that I think sometimes units across campus don't realize that these are responsibilities are the faculty. So we're, we're reminding people that some of these things are responsibilities of the faculty, for example, the government and discipline of the student body, extra curricular education, policies of admission, the University Library, of course, the establishment or the disestablishment of any degree program. And the faculty is supposed to consider and make recommendations on propose changes in university organization, especially administrative offices that are directly concerned with Academic Affairs. So I think sometimes the faculty are viewed as being in charge of degrees and curricula, which of course we are, but it's not recognized that there are these other responsibilities. And notice that the board does not call them powers. The board cause these responsibilities. The board also gives the faculty privileges. One of these privileges is to consider matters of general interest. And we have done that, and we will continue to do that when we think there are matters of general interest that need to be looked into. We have the privilege of making recommendations on appointments, promotions, tenure, dismissals, and salaries, and we could propose amendments to the Board of Trustees bylaws. Now, if we were to propose such an amendment, it would have to first be approved by the faculty as a whole and then passed to the president to take forward to the board. But there there actually is a bylaw in the Board of Trustees whereby we could modify, we could propose modifying their bylaws. Now, in 1970, the UD Faculty Senate was formed. And those of you who were Senators last year, Her John Olson, give his very moving speech when we renamed the Faculty Senate service award in his honor. You heard John essentially say that the faculty formed the Senate because they wanted to get better organized so that they can have more of a voice. I guess another way of saying that would be so that they could better fulfill the responsibilities that the board had given them. So the Senate exercises all the powers vested in the faculty of the University of Delaware. And there is in the UD constitution, there is a clause that governs its amendment, so that and no faculty member may be denied. You'll notice in the bolding there toward the end, no faculty member can be denied the privilege of making a recommendation to amend the UD faculty Constitution that the faculty would need to consider that regardless of what you might think it's chance of passing would be. So in section four of the UD faculty constitution talks about the Vice President preparing the agenda for each regular meeting of the Senate. And this agenda must include all the items that the President wants to put on the agenda. That's the President of the University or one of the faculty committees that wants to put an item on the agenda. You can't not put these items on the agenda. They have to go on the agenda. I'm pointing these things out so that you can understand the role that the faculty has. Twice a year, there's a general meeting of the University of faculty. In order to have a quorum there, you need at least for a fourth of the faculty to attend it. Those are held twice a year. There are 21 faculty senate committees. This is a listing of the committees. The bylaws of the Faculty Senate not only charge the committees with responsibilities, but they give the committees the power to initiate action. And I would like to see more of that happening here at UD. So if you're serving on the faculty senate committee, if you're a chair the faculty senate committee, you can initiate actions from your committee. And I guess we can keep each other honest if we ever think we need a roll call vote, there's a clause in there. I don't know if the Senate's ever taken a roll call vote, but there's a clause in here whereby a roll call vote could be requested for any issue. There will be eight faculty senate meetings this year, including this one. Here you see the dates, you should have these on your calendar. If not, these dates are at the Faculty Senate website. The Board of Trustees committees meet regularly, and we have a very hardworking board, very dedicated board. They do their homework. The reason we know that is because members of the executive committee will attend the board meetings. And in addition, in addition to inviting to faculty to attend each board meeting, the board also invites to student government leaders, one undergraduate and one graduate. So that means that we are regularly attending executive committee, Academic Affairs, finance grounded buildings, Public Affairs, and Student Life meetings of the board. And we have an opportunity to participate. Allah, we normally don't until the end, but we are invited to speak at the end of the, of the meetings. And it really gives you an insight into how excellent our board works on our behalf. Once a month we have lunch with the provost and we just had the first one this past Friday. By we, I mean the executive committee. And once each fall and spring, the University present pad Harker in the executive vice president. Scott Douglas join us and these luncheons. And the purpose of these luncheons is for the faculty and administration debrief each other unimportant issues that are forthcoming so as to avoid what we call blind citing each other on the Senate floor. You would never want to be blindsided on the Senate floor. And these luncheons also provide an opportunity to continue debate on contentious issues and a plan exciting new initiatives. So recently, some issues that the faculty has gotten involved in, and it says here, effect effective faculty governance. But again, the adjective I would use and the adjective the AAUP would use would be effective shared governance was the RB be Review and the reinstatement of the Faculty Senate Budget Committee. The actions that have been taken regarding the sea and tt issues, entitles issues related to the academic calendar. I think we've pretty well established it. That's sacred ground. And any changes contemplated for the academic calendar really need to be vetted thoroughly through the Senate committee process dissolving prop programs or not. I'm trying not to look at as specific dean, but it is possible that when you want to terminate a program, the Faculty Senate won't let you do it. At that. That has happened, It can happen. So the review, the review of programs can work both ways. You might review a program and, and find that it's not meeting standards and it's a poor quality program and the university doesn't want it. But you might also find that a program is not being terminated for the right reasons. And I guess that's an example of, of the faculty sort of stepping in and saying, let's take another look at this. And we all work at this together through this process of shared governs general education and Brett general education this year is going to be huge. And we're going to have a presentation on general education today. So I'm not going to say more about that. And the Senate also took action on requesting open searches. The provost responded with open searches. We were very pleased by those open searches. Those are just a few examples of shared governance. Now we have a very strong AAUP chapter here at Udi. And I think you're going to, to understand its important to belong, whether you agree or disagree with what they are doing. If you disagree with what a democratic unit is doing, you should join it and get a lot of people who think like you to join it and change it with your vote did not join it is not helping it. It's only self-defeating. Our chapter negotiates the collective bargaining agreement. And this collective bargaining agreement contains more than you might think it. First of all, governance terms of employment, workload, benefits, family leave, discrimination, and exigency. It's grievance procedure covers not only disputes of the CBA, but it also covers disputes of the faculty handbook. That is a very important linkage between the AAUP and the faculty senate, the CBA, and the union works to keep our salaries competitive and makes it possible for us to retire. It stipulates UD contributions to faculty pension accounts, which are considerable. It creates retirement options that give you three or four different ways to retire. For faculty who have been here for awhile, there's a very generous onetime payment when you retire at the rate of 2.5, 1% of annual base salary for each year of university service. And then there's Article 17. Article 17 and the CBA is very interesting. Article 17 requires the university to consult with the Faculty Senate executive committee before changing practices and policies which govern administrative decisions concerning wages, salaries, hours, workload, sick leave, vacations, grievance procedures, appointments, reappointment, promotion, tenure, dismissal, termination, suspension, valuation, sabbatical leave, and maternity leave. Such changes shall be submitted in advance to the executive committee of the university faculty senate for referral to the appropriate faculty review committee and subsequent senate action before final administrative action. And, and the policy goes on to say that the Faculty Senate Executive Committee has 60 days within which to act. And if the faculty senate doesn't act within 60 days, then the proposal is considered, approved by the faculty senate. There's a very important linkage there between the union and the CBA and the senate. And in order to have a vote in how that works, you need to belong to the union. Again, you're all a member of the bargaining unit, but you don't have a vote unless you belong. And you would want to belong because of these responsibilities and key linkages between the union And the Senate. So my colleagues, Bob ALL paella and Denny Galileo for solder Zadi on his silver Aman. Brian Hansen, John job. We're going to be working very hard this year to make all this work in my campaign promise. And you'll remember what a hotly contested election this was last year. In my campaign promise, I promised to provide everyone with a level playing field. And the one thing I will promise is that when the field is not level, I will level it. That's my promise to you this year. So these these are facts, so they're probably it's probably not appropriate for me to take questions. These are announcements, right? I'm announcing to you how the policies work here at UT and how the line of authority passes from the administration to the faculty. And this presentation was vetted by the provost's office and by the executive committee before I showed it to you, is my friend Avron here. Everyone told me this would be my first mistake, would be if I made this presentation on the Senate floor, would be my first mistake. And I said no, actually, that'll be my second mistake because last year, senator tom angel told me my first mistake was agreeing to run for office, right? That that was my first mistake. So so if this was wrong to do, it's my second mistake. But this is what makes UD the wonderfully strong institution that it is. So next on our agenda is Dean Watson's report on the sea and tt commission to want to see where that is on the agenda. And let's see. So where that is, well, I'm going to have to learn to get better at flipping. I think I ended my agenda. So let me bring up your slide, your first slide, and I'll just present to you, Dean George Watson. >> Bring the lights back up? >> Yes. Just with this button here. >> I haven't tightness space in awhile. Well, it's nice to be invited by Fred to come and let, you know, raise your level of awareness about the continuing track commission that was charged this summer and is now underway. Just thinking about Provost grass, those remarks. I expect to be here sometime next spring to deliver the report. And person. And this will be the only time you will see me now next spring. So this is not an update. I don't plan to come back for periodic updates on the work of the commission. Rather, I wanted to let you know that this is underway. Some of the parameters. I have just three slides. I wanted to show you how the commission I wanted to show you the composition of the commission. I'd like to talk about some of the elements of the Provost charged to the commission, and then some of the approaches that we'll be using in our, our timeline. So there are really two members of the commission were appointed by the provost. I was appointed as Chair of the Commission. My expressed an interest in the topic and Matt cancer BIC as an extra physio member by nature of his role as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. The provost then assembled a list of suggested Members of the Commission. And the Faculty Senate leadership was also solicited for suggestions to be members of the commission. The leadership of the Senate as I understand it and understand it, then solicited further afield some recommendations for membership on the commission. It was a long list of names. I think one difference between a commission and a committee or a task force is that then I took the responsibility for the rest of the membership of the Commission. I was looking to make a very compact. I'm going to show it to you here in a second. You know, you already saw it come through on preview. I wonder. Very compact commission so that we could move quickly and be done with the expected timeline. But I wanted to just be broadly representative. So I think I think we did a good job putting it together. Crossing rank caused crossing track. Six of the seven colleges are represented mad and I are the only full-time administrators on the Commission. I'm chairing it. I wanted to retain a voting position. And then we added 88 additional faculty members. So it's very much, it's a faculty oriented. Even Matt and I are at art faculty members. So it's Commission has ten members, nine voting MET chair. And then there are these 88 members that are broadly, really broadly representative of the faculty. With I would say, other than a few details, I understand that the Faculty Senate and the AAUP are broadly supportive of the commission that's been established to say other than a few few details. So I feel good that the membership has been endorsed and the commission as well on well underway have three slides. So I'm as we'll take questions now on each slide or any questions or comments about the composition of the commission are how was formed? John, Thank You. Can you tell us how many condition or see any of the eight of the eight members that were invited for C and Tt and four were 10-year stream Three, sit down front. I wanted to acknowledge the members actually. So that's a nice segue. Three other members, Bob, a pill, a procedure rod, and a new Severan, mn are on the faculty senate. >> Laura glass, I see in the back a call in. >> Orfeo is here and and see you earlier. So the two toms or not here, and Joe Flynn. So it's 50-50 of the eight that were in were invited on a continuum track. The Provost charged us on like near the very end of July. We did have our first meeting most recently on Friday. First order of business was to give ourselves the month of August to continue working on the items of interest to us for August. And we didn't really undertake any work on the Commission during August. With my apologies to the provost's office, we are now fully fully underway. So at that charging meeting, really there were five elements of the charge from Provost grass. So I think these will come as no surprise to you. We want to understand fully the rows of the role of the continuing track faculty at the University of Delaware. As part of our overall faculty composition question of hiring and promotion have been under discussion for the past few years, actually with clear expectations set and the position descriptions and in promotion and tenure promotion guidelines. So kind of the first item was the y and the second item was the how. And then the item that really launched the Commission here as around the question of titling of continuing track faculty members, Provost made it very clear to us as a commission where to tackle this, these questions being very fair represented, of appropriate, and transparent. Fourth, there was a question that came up in one of the resolutions from those from the spraying about whether we wanted to consider progression of long serving instructors, instructors that aren't an assistant professor or above and rank, they don't carry the terminal earned Degree in the discipline. So that will be an item that we'll be considering. And finally then we're ask as a commission to develop actionable items. And some of those actionable items will come in the form of resolutions for consideration by this body next spring. I hope resolution writing is not one of my genres. >> We'll see, we'll see how we, how we do with that. >> But that's that we've been asked to do that as part of the charge, the formation of the commission and the Provost charged to the commission. And these five elements, I believe really are respond well to the spirit of the faculty resolutions that were put up last spring, again, there were certain things that maybe our couldn't quite be done in the way that it was phrased in the end. The resolution by do believe that this is very responsive to what the senators were asked to consider. Center last spring Questions on this slide says, starting to feel a lot like when I was teaching introductory physics engineering stood as good. So the approach again, these are these are items that we discussed with Provost grass when he charged the charged the commission we're going to set about early on now we are going to consider the practices at UD involving continuing track faculty members. Look at the strengths of the system that we use. Look at the weaknesses that might be, might be present. Consider those to also do that in a spirit of comparison with other institutions and other major research universities face the same challenges that we do it. >> So one group in particular that I'm looking at are the public AAU institutions. There may be others had been settled it on the commission yet, but we're beginning to do our research there. Lots of reports had been written. Lots of universities have grappled with the question of non-tenure track faculty members. Our intention is to spend a lot of time with different groups, different stakeholders, focusing primarily on the faculty, but not, not exclusively. These are just a sampling that came out of the charging document that we received. We will accept invitations to come meet with interested groups. Let me know. We we meet we have a standing meeting time Friday afternoons from one to 230 every Friday. So we'll be opening up some of those times for open meetings or different kinds of focus groups. We are meeting with John Sawyer this Friday to determine how we might solicit feedback information from the faculty using a survey. So I hope when that comes out that you'll respond to, take the time to let us know your feelings on the questions that we ask you. It seems like a non negotiable due date of January 2015. There are 31 days in January and first day of class isn't until February sixth. So Marian negotiating whether we couldn't have the you know, the first Friday in February as a final meeting day for the for the commission. But we'll try to be responsive and bring the report out very early in the spring semester so the Senate can can fully deliberate. And o and that's it. So questions on questions on anything. Now, let me open it up. David, mathematical sciences >> Do you use the commission have a preconceived idea that there needs to be a, a set of policies concerning see NTT faculty that is invariant across all the, all the units to the university? >> Or is there, or is it okay if I assume that there may be differences from one department or one college to another. >> Not something that you have a preconceived idea about? >> That's correct, that we have no preconceived ideas. That was part of the selection criteria for being being on the commission. I mean, we are going to do our exploration. We're going to try to understand fully roles and responsibilities that continuing track faculty members, what they across the university and how they differ. I understand that one of the things we quickly recognizes that continue to track faculty member has a much wider array of assigned activities from the department chair than, than the tenure track. The tenure track as a more, say, narrowly defined faculty responsibility. So we're beginning to examine that and will where we're going to take that into account. Steve? Yeah. >> Johanna, just curiosity. Why is there a reason why one college was omitted from membership? >> Didn't you say that all colleges were represented? Six out of seven were represented? It wasn't the primary sorting criterion for me, frankly, there is one college that doesn't use continuing track appointments. That happens to be the one college that doesn't have representation on, and that's coincidental more. It was the College of Earth ocean environment, which is about 60 faculty members face this a lot when I think about how I need to sample the faculty to put anything together and the balance of Arts and Sciences and the other colleges. So it's not never perfect. I decided I like the composition of the eight that had abided. Let me just add this side note that I failed to do. This is the only time in my experience as dean. And I've been working at this for a while where I invited eight faculty members to do anything and they all agreed there was one per person. I thought I might have to twist a little bit, but I very cleverly made the invitation, martha. >> So are you all going to be the role of play? >> There's a, there's an non-tenure track faculty that are not on the continuing track. There's another whole there's another whole scope of work that could be done that I believe falls outside the charge of this Commission and we have as currently charged and composed and with the due date being what it is, that I think there will be part of the work of the commission will be to identify some of the things that we could not consider that might that are important enough to consider. So some some other commission or some extension of this, one might might address some of the other questions that are will not be covered by the Commission on the continuing track. >> Yes. >> Hi, Veronica justice WHO nursing I have question about are really just a suggestion that you look at not only the differentiation of across departments, but within there you have other aspects like clinical versus teaching professional schools and more or less the academic approach. And as you're very familiar, certainly nursing is unique in this element. And so there's some unique aspects that we look at sea, he would be addressed. >> Yeah, that's a good segue for me to sit down. So I'm not here to we are going to consider it. I didn't want this introduction of the commission as charge a membership. You get too much into things. We really do welcome your input to the Commission. And so I hope that if if there are pockets in places where the role is a little different or it's differentiated within a unit that you make sure that we understand that. So I'd be happy to come to the school of nursing. Some of us would be happy to come and have that conversation. >> Thank very much yes. >> Danny read I wanted to make sure that all of the people they give talks we will be attaching the slides to the meeting minutes. I believe we will. Yeah, that was a point of information. I'm a walking copy of Robert's rules right now because I studied it during the past week, my by knowledge will quickly fade. But I can give you a category for almost anything you say. >> At the moment, it's just that we couldn't hear what was being said. >> Something Denny? >> Yes. I should have repeated what he said. So any was asking if the slides will be made available. And it is customary for the Senate to make slides available at the Faculty Senate website. So Karen is nodding and we'll I'll send carrying these files tonight so she can put them up. And you got all your hard questions asked, right? I mean, this question that I'm asking you now is a very important question. So you've got all your hard questions asked about the forum, about what George presented. That's a very important question. So this is the time yes, fell last session. Is this thinking that that is the consensus of the executive committee? Just as George said, he never asked a faculty to do anything. And they all said yes right away. We were just very impressed by the choices that were made. There were three lists. There was a list from the caucus, there was a list from the executive committee, and there was a list from the provost's office, and George needed to select the members from among those three lists. And I think all three groups were very impressed by the choices he made. But this is the time to speak up if there's something you don't like about that, about what George presented here today. So I could give you a minute to thank while I try to find the agenda. Let's see. So because I should re-establish the context for what we're doing here. >> Alright, so where we are, we are in the midst of these presentations. >> We've completed the presentation on the sea and tt commission update. And next, it's my pleasure and honor to introduce two very hardworking faculty who are going to speak about the General Education Initiative. I believe this is going to be one of the largest initiatives of the year that will come through the Senate. So John police go and Norm Wagner, should I explain who you are? Or you gotta be self-explaining. So John vel, ASCO is chairing the gen ed taskforce and Norm Wagner is chairing the gen ed committee. And they work together in a very interesting way, which you are going to explain the relationship between the two groups. The, the innovations that will be coming from the task force will proceed to the senate through the gen ed committee which has been so charged. So let me see if I can find your presentation. You'd think I'd be better at this since I teach educational technology. >> Alright, so, and John goes first, right? >> We see here, just minimize this. Oh, that's disturbing, or let's call it disturbing, but it's, it's a mystery why this isn't standing up there. It's because I've got them all running at once and they're all excited. Let's see. So Alright, so we're gonna have to probably in interest of time here, not try and fix the problem, but rather case. Here's your presentation. Okay. So that ideally should run. In my incompetence has been podcast. >> I thank you for it. >> So unlike George, I will be back probably a lot this year. You'll probably get tired of seeing me and you'll certainly get tired of seeing norm. I think that explains our relationship. So as Fred said, and as provost grass, WHO said, one of the things that that's a job for this body this year is to reconsider and re-imagined general education. Dominik, I mentioned that there is a strategic planning initiative underway. This taskforce on general education is operating in tandem with that and closely collaborating with that. But it really sort of sits outside of what's going on with, with strategic planning. Because what we're really trying to do is bring a long-term process to a culmination. So I just want to whet your appetite today. And then norm is going to talk a little bit about an open meeting that will happen later this month. And then as I said, we'll be back many times over the, over the course of this year. Back in 2011, the faculty and administration of, of this university got together to write a self-study for that round of Middle States accreditation. And that's really when this process of rethinking and reenvisioning general education began was back in 2011. And since that time, the Faculty Senate General Education Committee has done a heck of a lot of work following up on the recommendations that were made by us to middle states and then endorsed by Middle States back to us. And I just wanted to hit sort of the highlights of what, what we said to Middle States and middle states said back to us regarding General Education. So in particular, the key points, I think because we said that we needed to make our genet goals clear, concise, and measurable, right? With an emphasis on measurable. If you look at our current, current set of gin and goals, measurement is not necessarily the easiest thing to do. We need to create a signifigant common model of a first-year experience. Right now, we have many different models of the first year experience across the university with in some sense, little consistency. There was an emphasis on ensuring students quantitative literacy. There's something that we had stated as a goal, but was in no way enact it in any of the agenda curriculum. We said we needed to assess and likely revise our multicultural requirement. We're working closely with James Jones, who's doing a study of that. And also we needed to ensure high-quality advisement. So back in in the spring semester, Nancy Brick House worked to put together a task force that's sort of expanded on norms committee to kinda take some of the weight off norms committee doing all the work. So that the conception of this task force is really in three parts. So there's this, this core working group that began their work back in May. We are charged back in May. And I'll tell you a little bit about what we what we've been doing. There's this steering committee that just met for the first time a few weeks ago. So there'll be working a lot over the course of this semester. And then there's the Faculty Senate committee under norms leadership that again, just convenes for the first time a few weeks ago. There'll be the ones that you'll be interacting with most of all as, as senators. As Fred said, the stuff that's happening over here will be passed through the Faculty Senate Committee. On to you guys for consideration. So in terms of the timeline and what we've been doing, we began meeting back in May. And really what we started our our job was, was to digest everything that had been done since 2011. So there was a heck of a lot of work that came out of the faculty senate committees. There was a lot of work that had been done around middle states. Our first job was, was to digest all of that and try and coordinate a plan for the work of this larger group as we go through this academic year. While we did, is we put together a framework to guide the work of this task force. You'll be seeing that framework at the open hearing at the end of this month, we've started meeting. That's that's September. This open hearing will be held. And what we hope to do is in October or November, have to you guys for consideration a revised set of general education goals. So we're really thinking about this. This is process in two phases. The first phase is to see if we can have agreement on Janet goals and have you guys consider that and see if that that is something that we can all get together behind as we've been discussing the agenda and goals. And as you guys discuss degenerate goals, if we get consensus around that, will continue to work to try and figure out how we then implement those goals and what changes we need to make to that. So this this Committee will continue to meet throughout this semester and then hopefully in March, April, and May, we'll be sending you guys a set of proposals to act on the different goals that you'd see. So I'm going to turn it over to Norm will, but we'll take questions afterwards. No one's going to talk a little bit about his committee and there were not. >> So I would I would say it's not really pleased to be back here. >> A number of years ago, I chaired your address studies to me, it's an honor to be involved with this group of individuals I think represent very broad constituency around us and I hope you will engage them. We met for the first time right at the beginning of the semester, the first day. >> But first we and we decided that this was important enough to do an open hearing in the very near future. >> So an agenda and an announcement of that open hearing will be forthcoming within the next 24 hours. >> I believe parents Narcotics Bureau about ready to go with that. >> I hope everyone here can participate in that open hearing and voice their interests and and race issues and and discuss the proposal, a preliminary version of which John will present on behalf of the taskforce with that. >> So that's sort of all I had to say today. >> I you will probably see me again in the not too distant future. >> Because as John said, we really haven't obligation for variety of reasons for students and to the Academy as a whole to move forward on the first part of this this fall. >> So I beg your indulgence and and ask for your attention to this as we go forward because we didn't move quickly on it. >> That's all I did. >> So I guess there are questions for the hours late. Okay. >> Well, you know where it is. >> Thank you, John and Norm. >> There's also a curriculum and delivery group within the strategic planning initiative. And I'm Coach sharing that with Janice are part of the brand again. So we're and we're working together with both Norm and John. So this will be a big initiative as we're looking forward to how the University of Delaware, we'll plan curriculum and deliver it under this, under the new initiative. So last but not least is, is a presentation on the campus safety education campaign. And I'm pleased to introduce Deborah Hayes, who's the vice president for communications and marketing. Just I'm just waiting for a minute to make sure this is really running a set of pairs. Would you like the lights dimmed a little better? Do you want them left this way? >> I think yes. >> I think that helps when you're doing a PowerPoint or you go slides a little bit. >> Good afternoon everyone and thank you, Fred, for inviting me to speak to you this afternoon about a new safety education campaign we are introducing across the campus this fall after an incident this summer involving a man placing video cameras and rest rooms. I spoke with the provost, the president, student life, as well as public safety. And we decided that it would be in our best interests and very important to make sure the entire community is aware of the resources we have and to reinforce the message that everyone needs to be involved. We all must be on the lookout for anything unusual and report any suspicious activities to the police. Our theme is similar to many of the campaigns you are familiar with. If you've taken any form of transportation recently? Like with Amtrak, see something, say something for our University. A campaign theme, a safe UD starts with me, is where we are proposing. We develop this message working with our colleagues across the campus, including in the most important constituency are students. They served as focus group members with us or later this late in the summer, we now are reaching out to other important groups such as, as this one and involving all in this campaign. These efforts are aimed at promoting the importance of safety for all members of our community. Our campaign so far has included posters, flyers, were working on videos as well. And we have put our materials up and all of the academic buildings, as well as the residence halls and addition. >> We are using social media >> Articles in you daily and a link on the UD homepage. Later this week you will see some of the videos which include student athletes, international students, and, and our Provost, the safe UD starts with me, is really the, the name of our campaign. And you can see that we are, we are trying to go about this in a very comprehensive way. But before we started the campaign, we did deuce homework. We reached out in that research around the nation and looked at with some of the other universities were doing. We also talked to their liaisons and communications as, as well as public safety to see how their campaigns were going. And we're really pleased with how our look and feel and the type of outreach we've had in the response we've had so far. So this is what our campaign platform is and this is what it looks like. A say few days I'd say it starts with me. And to this, this is a poster that has been developed. We had the opportunity to finish it up in time to go in all the boxes for the book boxes and have this available when the students and parents arrived on campus. So we are, that's the poster. And I was, we were pleasantly surprised that the students are the ones that reacted to messages and suggested that we put Lookup first. They are aware that they walk looking down at their technology. We also want to use this same umbrella to talk about other important issues impacting the campus, not just UD, but campuses across the country. It should issue suggest responsible use of alcohol, sexual assaults and awareness prevention, lab safety, and Internet security. We ask for your help in ensuring that everyone on campus is aware of these important safety tips. And that we all encourage each and every one of us, and particularly the students, to look up, watch out, and to speak up. Now I'd like to turn this over to our colleague Mark Seyfert. Mark runs the emergency communications and information technology on campus and he's here to tell you more about an app that can be used in this campaign. We will also keep the student life Committee of the faculty senate apprised of all of the developments. So thank you very much for your time and I appreciate your help in advance with this important campaign. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, everyone. And good afternoon again. My name's Mark seaport. I work in campus and public safety and I'm excited to share some information with you about a free app downloadable on either an Android or iPhone device. Our app is called a lives. It's a live safe app and it leverages the thousands of people on campus every day that have a smartphone on their person. Basically is a blue light phone in a pocket. It's an electronic device that L is leveraging technology that is emerging everyday here on campus. It does provide an instantaneous communication link to both university police, to paramedics, and New Castle County 9-1-1 Center and various other public safety resources to include the New York Police. It is a new communication channel for reporting incidents to the police. Through our outreach and marketing efforts, we've done extensive outreach, starting first with the SGA. We've done a lot of presentations with university, university sponsored clubs and associations, athletics Greeks, in addition to admit various administrative units on campus. Over the course of about eight months, we've been looking at this app, meeting with other peer aspirational institutions. And we actually visited the University of Baltimore in, in Baltimore, Maryland to see how they've implemented this app and successfully deployed it. One thing I'd like to remind folks is that this does not replace 9-1-1, even though you might have your iPhone as you walk down Main Street. If for for whatever reason there was a individually and medical distress, we want you to call 9-1-1. The Act does provide that availability if necessary, but we want students, faculty, and staff to understand that Nyman one is still your first and primary call. Again, it's instant two-way communications. And I think everyone's aware that the police department does have a 9-1-1 Center and it is staff 247365 days a year. We have a dashboard, an electronic dashboard that is the portal for receipt of any information that is coming through the app. The user has the option again of calling 9-1-1, calling UDP UD police, and that would register on our A31 to-to to-to number. Or the individual can message the police, much like you would imagine a text message being sent. The messages received in the dashboard, I'll show that to you here in just a minute. And it is acted upon immediately by the dispatchers. Users can also upload photos or video from, for example, a crime scene. If there's a, if there's a fight going on on the east campus and a student is observing this, we are not yet aware of it. An individual can take a picture or can actually take a video of the incident and send that to the 9-1-1 Center. On August 31st, we actually had we had an incident that was reported to us that included video and that was immediately downloaded, enacted upon by university police. What I'm showing you here is the dashboard on the left hand side, I realize The font is not large enough for you probably to to decipher what it says. But that is the incoming tips and information that is being generated by the user. In the field on the right hand side is essentially a Google map with various icons of different incidents that are being reported. This is an example. We deploy the app in a beta fashion for about 2.5 months. We send it out to individuals and basically ask them if you can break the app, please try. We want to the app through the rigors of the system and then work with our vendor, contract vendor to identify any inefficiencies. The app was officially launched on August 22nd, and this is the tip that I was referring to. It seems like the last three or four weekends we've had severe thunderstorms. Every weekend. On the 31st, there was flash flooding and thunderstorms in the New York area. We received a tip through the app. Somebody was walking through Cornell Hall on the first floor. There was severe flooding in the lobby. The information came in, repair needed per now Floor one and it actually contain a video of the flooding coming out of the ceiling. It was it was a very compelling that this app was going to be a very nice tool for us to utilize in a variety of different uses. The dispatcher was able to contact facilities. They were not yet aware of the incident and they obviously took care of the matter. Some other features, one specific maybe for, not, not just necessarily for students, but students, faculty, staff. If a student is leaving Mars Library at 130 in the morning, it's, it's reading week. And they're going to walk from Mars library to Laird campus. They can actually afford lives, saved the opportunity to contact, to have access to their contacts. And they can message their parent and say, I'm leaving Mars library, it's 130 in the morning. I don't feel safe. I'm not going to ask the police for an escort home. I'm going to welcome. Can you just track me using the app? The parent would get a text message and would actually have a your URL and you can click on the URL. It will take you to the live safe site. It will populate a map and it will actually track the students across campus until he or she or an employee arrives at their destination safely. There is also a duress button on the app should something happen in the course of that walk where they need to contact police immediately. There's also a safety map. For example, if we identified a crime trend, let's say for example, on the south campus, vehicles were being broken into and we had not yet identified the the individuals responsible. We could send a message out to our users reminding them to secure their valuables in their trunk and to lock their vehicles because of the ongoing crime. Trent >> It is also customizable platform. >> It is relatively new across our nation, but everyday lives safe is getting additional tips of features to add and they're very happy to add. >> Those had been a great partner to work with thus far. >> We've received very positive feedback from a variety of groups across the campus. We've engaged in a very active outreach and education campaign, social media website, some of the things that Debra had mentioned previously in the course of about a week, we have added 600 users, were approaching 1000 users. There will be an arc one, the review tomorrow, we hope to continue to add to the users of the app. The, the power of the app is, is really concentrated in the number of users that you have receiving tips. Again, we're receiving tips and a variety of different issues. Someone can use the app to report lights out in the parking lot where somebody could use the app at a football game to to report someone having a heart attack, things of that nature. So that is a very brief summary of the app. It's relatively new. We're still taking feedback, certainly from a variety of groups across the campus. We welcome your feedback. We hope you'll download the app and certainly I'm available for any questions or requests for presentations. If there's an interest in that, I guess we can take questions on the campaign worthy. Yeah. >> If there are thank you for your time or learning applies for quick question whereby this again argue physically get the OK. >> So Google Play or any Android device, the itunes store, type, insert and search gone, let's say. And it'll actually prompt you to download the app and it will ask you to pick your university. One of the things that's really powerful, if the dollar goes down to Washington College, they have the app as well and they can bring up the washing, how they're there for the weekend, to connected or at least Department as well. But I'm happy to assist anybody that might need some help. We do have a website on our police department which will link you with instructions on how to download that. >> Sir, John Morgan, physics and astronomy graduate students in our department live in the studio green and Madison Drive area. And there's very, very good bus service during the day between that area and Central Campus. >> And the bus service, quite frankly, is less good now than it was several years ago, especially for getting home late at night. And I would urge that some thought being given to revisiting how the bus routes have been designed late at night precisely so that you don't have students walking home at 130 in the morning instead of getting a bus because they'd have to wait half an hour, 50 minutes to get a bus. >> That might take them for another 40 minutes out of their way before finally dropping them off where they'd like to go home and start transportation. >> We can certainly bring that information to transportation services attention. >> And I appreciate the question and the observation. >> One more question. Two more question. >> Has to do not have and do not intend to get smart phones. >> Math, you didn't mention anything. >> My flip phone won't do well. >> The apps be adaptable to somebody not visit it through GPS. It can do video, it can send texts and so forth. >> What, why, why would you not take care, care take advantage of sensible palm, gemstone smartphones. >> It's a first that I've gotten that question. >> Sorry. >> Let's say maybe I was somewhat short-sighted on just the iPhone and the Android devices, but I can certainly follow up with you to see if they're going to expand. Number two devices. >> Certainly 9-1-1 is turf priority GF. Mr. David Satcher and Associate in Arts. >> I have that in front of me and I think it's really clean and very intuitive. >> I'm just really curious about reporting tips and whether you can do so anonymously. Because I think that's a real concern for anyone who wants to share information. >> And so much has been achieved when tips can be provided enormously. >> But I I don't even think that's possible. >> I agree. And I failed to manage in my effort to be very that if there was a very serious crime 1 Canvas and we know we've had those. Unfortunately, live say does have the ability through a subpoena process to identify someone that provides that tin is it's something that we're going to do for routine crime. >> Certainly not. In our outreach. >> We have certainly been press signup on SGA, our student groups. And when you download the app in the user agreement before you accept the downloaded, it is clear in there. The language is very clear in there. >> I think it's just really important that students and faculty know that if they make a tip that they're they're sharing that information, that it can be subpoenaed. >> I think we can look to make sure that it is clear on our website. And I will double-check the user agreement, but I know there is language in there and I do appreciate your point, sir. >> One more question from another question. Yeah. Is there any information that is sent out from the user's bot if they do not engage some functional, a dashboard like can you look to see not necessarily who they are, but where all the people that have these bones or anything similar to that? >> Not that I'm aware of. >> And Victor Perez, sociology, criminal justice. I just wonder if there was any consideration of privacy concerns for other people who might be recorded in an event, for example, in a private setting, it's his films. >> Generally the court a lot. >> And if there's any consideration of people's privacy, there was extensive discussion with the opposite General Counsel. Piracy is that in that Delaware is a 11 party consent state, that when we drew up the user agreement before you accept the use of the app, that it was very clear in there. >> The last question John wants to have. >> The last question is it Thank you, John jet from English. And this this question troubled me whenever I hear these concerns. >> Can you address, please what you tell folks about suspicious activity and what that means. >> And let me say that I vividly remember doing a ride along with a new gas or padding police. By the suspicious activity was three black guys walking through a neighborhood in which they lived. So what is, what is it you tell folks about? >> What is suspicious activity should be bought? >> It I will speak from my experience prior to coming to the University of dollar. I have 21 years of experience and law enforcement. I've been here at the university for five years. I think it comes down to several very important things. The core values of your department, the caliber of the people that you're hiring, making sure that you have policy and procedures in place for every officer that they understand that, making sure that you have state-of-the-art training, whether it is o case law, evolving case law, and also being aware of what is going on in the larger community. Certainly our officers are all human. >> We come from human nature. Officers make the space, individuals makes mistakes. >> It's the responsibility of our officers are dispatchers and and the entire police department to interpret information that's coming into the 9-1-1 center or through this app to take appropriate action. Obviously, I may have some bias. I think we have an extremely professional police department here. I think we're well-trained, I think we're well led, and I think we're very fortunate that he well compensated so that we hire very hired high calibre of officer. >> But I think that is something that you need to train on every day. >> You need to remind you Officers Every day that their actions can change. >> But humanity overnight and despite the affluent that the incident, this, once it was rediscovered it, there were I feel funny about seeing this person coming out of the window. I felt a little creeped out by this. I mean, I just didn't want to say anything. So we're asking people to go back to something out of the boy believe, see repeated activity, that that's what we're talking about. Same person behind every day that both fall when you start seeing things that just make you feel extremely vague and Arab place. >> Thank you. Let's give a round of applause of appreciation. So our last item of business today is introduction of new business. No motion introduced under new business except emotion to referred to committee shall be acted upon until the next meeting of the Senate, but we can discuss new business if we choose to do so. Is there any new business to be introduced today? It's permissible to have discussion. We have one-minute essay click. So I karen had told me by the way, that if y was kind to you today during my first Senate meeting, you would be kind to me. I want to thank all of you for that and I will entertain a motion to adjourn. And is there a second? All those in favor, raise your yellow cards. There we go. We've added a German. Thank you.
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