All right, everyone. We're going to go ahead and have our quorum call. So this is only if you are an elected senator, not an administrator, and if you are, we ask you to Hang on a second. Oh, my goodness. Where is Karen Holden? Karen? Are you here? Okay. All right. If someone could bring Karen in, that would be really great because I just realize I don't have my base attached, so we can't quite vote quite yet. But we can vote by card, I believe in the meantime. So if you are an elected senator, please raise your hand, an elected senator, right? We're looking for a quorum. You think that's good enough, John? Now, our magic number is for Qm should be in the 40s. We're in the high 50s. We're in the very high 50s. Thank you. I'm English remember. Bear with me one moment. I raged hears. I'm having flashbacks to growing up at the end of the dead and dirt road and having one channel if the ragged hear just right. And even it was black and white and fuzzy. But that was all day. I. I have floppy rabbit ears. Okay. Let's see what we can do here. S. There we go. So we are connected now. All right. Thank you for the quorum call. Now we're moving on to the adoption of the agenda. Does anyone have any discussion points about the agenda before we have a vote? All right. I'll open. And here we are. Has everyone had the chance to vote? Alright. Oh, dear. Okay. Karen. If someone could get Karen again, I'd appreciate it. Thank you very much. And we'll add in your vote afterwards for Sepane. All right. Of course, technical difficulties would have to be plaguing us today. All right. So moving forward, the minutes for our prior meeting. Does anyone have any discussion of the minutes from the November 4 meeting? No. All right. With no further ado, we will open the vote. Has everyone completed voting? Yes. I'm sorry. Can you bring all the names on screen? Yes, I can. Yeah. It defaulted out of it, but I'll put them back up definitely. Thank you. All right. And there is our results. Okay. So bring up everyone's name. Okay. Let's see. So Not yet. Okay. For some reason, this keeps eluding me. Okay. I think we have our set now. Okay. All right. Okay, now we'll move on with our agenda from there. Hopefully, again, we are ready to actually have some discussion. All right. So as you all know, we're being video and audio recorded. We are at the announcements portion of this evening. There are no remarks. President Asanas having given us a th faculty meeting, so we thought we wouldn't ask him for more. We we had let him off the hook ale bit. A few announcements from me before we move on to some agenda items. I wanted to report back that, and let me make this in viewable. So recently, that is between November 6 and November 18. There were six different Board of Trustees committee meetings. For the open sessions of these meetings, which is the majority of them, two senate representatives were invited to attend. So we did indeed have two senate representatives at those six meetings, and we tried to send folks with particular expertise into those meetings. For example, we sent the head of our Budget Committee Matt Robinson and a budget committee member, Jonathan Justice to the Finance Committee meeting. In the past, we've largely been observers in these meetings. And after discussions with Chair Kelly in which she encouraged us to be more active participants, as you know, we released the agendas of these committee meetings to you in advance. We collected some questions. We also had questions of our own. And to whatever extent we could, we took these questions back into the committee meetings for discussion. Also, we were never under the impression that it would be welcome for us to write up highlights of these committee meetings. However, Chair Kelly also indicated that she was very much in support of us writing these highlights. The highlights for each of the meetings have been drafted, and they're in circulation for review and comment by the folks who are in the meetings, and our goal is to have these to you by the end of the week. And our goal is also for you to review them. And if you have any comments on them or comments on them or questions about them, to send them to me so that I can then follow up. But the whole process that we've sort of designed now is as better with you all and the board. So there's more active faculty board interaction. So beyond the lookout for those highlights, it was sort of our Thanksgiving project, Thanksgiving week projects. Again, they should be to you relatively soon. Another reminder, the full board meeting, these were individual committee meetings. The full board semi annual meeting is going to be on December 10 3-5 at the Audion in Star Tower. There is a public comment period. I believe you have 2 minutes to deliver a comment. You have to register if you want to deliver a comment 72 hours prior to the meeting. A lot of people don't know that this is a possibility, but I wanted to share it with you again, by way of increasing potentially faculty interaction with the board. So you should never feel like you have to sit on questions that you have. You can always share them with me. And again, you have these public comment periods with the boards, and we'll try to get your questions answered and your comments conveyed. We still do have some Senate committee vacancies. We are still looking for an undergraduate studies rep for the College of Earth Ocean and Environment, and we could still use somebody on Icarus from Biden. Most sort of urgently, we are in the process of forming an ad hoc Committee on Department chairs that we passed a resolution for earlier this year. So if you are a faculty member who is interested in self nominating, to be on that committee, please contact Chris Williams, who's our CoC chair, and we will be making the decision shortly. CoC will be making the decision shortly as to who's going to be sitting on that committee. So we are continuing to look for volunteers, but not for too much longer. So if you're interested, you may want to move on that ASAP. We're moving down through our curriculum proposal deadlines. We're now at December 13 for courses other than CAS ones. Then moving to all of our programs deadline. The soft deadline is January 17. We recommend that you have all your materials in by there. The absolute deadline is February 7, where we'll close down curriculog. But we recommend January 17 because hopefully there won't be nearly as many inaccuracies or mistakes this year with all of the outreach we've done and the videos that the registrar has posted about curriculog online. But if it's the case that there are a fair number of inaccuracies in a proposal, it may be that if we get it after January 17, we won't have time to process it because it will have to be sent back and revetted through the chain. So just be aware that January 17 is your safest deadline, although the absolute one is going to be in February. I also have some news about moving the Senate meetings. It came to our attention that for budgetary reasons, this room is not meeting our needs. It's very expensive to have this room and all the media services that are involved. So we looked around for central classroom space. We have found that in Pernell 115. And it will also, we hope reduce our media services budget because we believe that we can use the Zoom capture technology in that room to do our recordings as well. We're hoping that that all works. Will we have the same space next year? I don't know. But I I am advocating for us to keep the same space with the registrar's office. But as you know, classroom space is at a premium. So we're doing our best to cooperate as best we can with the registrar. All right. Moving on to the consent agenda. We had eight items on it, eight total proposals, six for PCS courses or non credit certificate programs, and two proposals from the Department of Communication to add a theory course to both their masters and their PhD curricula. Is there any discussion about any items on the consent agenda? No. All right. All right, we'll open the vote. Still did I not click the same button? I thought for sure, I did. X. All right. Has everyone had the opportunity to vote? Okay. All right. And it passes handily. Seconds. Yeah, I'm not sure why it's not cooperating. Let's see if I can show it now. Set as default. I can set as default. Okay. Thank you, sir Rich. Change the number to ten. Let me cam. Okay. Wait. You change four to ten? Yeah. Okay. Got it. Change that. Ten. Save Save that you have set as default. Ah. An extra button. Okay. The bar. What's that? En. Exit. Exit. Exit. A. Yeah. No go back. Yeah. And there we are. Thank you, Sash. Send me a bill. Alright. Boy, I don't know. This whole Zoom capture thing for next semester is now making me super nervous. Alright. So the consent agenda passes handily. All right. Here we go. All right. At this point, we have one agenda item on our regular agenda, and I would like to just read the primary part of the resolution to you. It's a recommendation from the committee on Faculty rights and responsibilities, Michael O'Neil Chair, and the Committee on Diversity Inclusion with the concurrence of Exec to replace all instances of gender specific pronouns and the faculty handbook with gender neutral alternatives. And Michael O'Neil is here today. Michael, would you like to give a little background on this resolution? No, it's fairly straightforward. I think everyone's aware that we in the current contract, managed to do this with the CBA and bring it kind of up to date from requests that it actually come to the Union. I'm assuming those same requests reached their way to the Senate. So faculty rights and responsibilities job when they're not dealing with other problems is to help with things like this. So it was an exhaustive attempt to just go through and make them and theirs the common pronouns and should be that simple. And I should let you know that Michael has gone through and found every instance of a he or a she or him or her in the faculty handbook and listed them out for us. So we are grateful for that. All right. Is there any discussion about this resolution? All right. Okay. All right. And now the vote is open. Okay. So it's not just me? Is it just me? Oh, my goodness. I guess this is what happens when you try to change laptops. All right. Has everyone had the opportunity to vote? Okay. There it is. 71. Yes. No is zero. Therefore, we don't need to show the results of the vote. Oh, my goodness. Okay. We'll try this again. Okay. Exit. Okay. I'm gonna close my app and go back in. Alright. Well, luckily, we are now done with the voting for today. Thank goodness. I found my Christmas project, I think, which is to figure out why this isn't working. But we do have another agenda item. And that is a presentation, and this is going to be by our director of Athletics Community and Campus Recreation, Krissy Ray Wack. And she has some slides for us, and we will welcome her to the stage shortly. All right. All right. Okay. Thank you. Fingers cross on I know. Why would that be one, there we go. Okay. Good afternoon. Come on now. Good afternoon. I know you've had a lot in front of you, but I enjoy I will not take much time, about 15 minutes. I believe is what I was given. And as Vicki mentioned, my name is Krissy Ray Walk. I walk you walk Ray Walk. So in case anybody has any questions about the pronunciation, I've been having to do that since I was in kindergarten with my teachers. I started here at the University of Delaware in 2016, where I had the privilege of taking on the responsibility of being the athletic director and also overseeing community and campus recreation. I grew up right outside of Philadelphia. I was fortunate enough to go to the University of Michigan, where I was a student athlete and a coach. And I also have worked in administration in the University Development area at the University of Michigan and at Northwestern University. And then, again, in 2016 came to this great university to take on the role that I'm in. So started year nine this year, and it's been a terrific experience and opportunity. So one of the things that was important to me in this was to share with you, there's a lot of information out there about athletics, campus, and community recreation. Some of it true, some of it not true. So this is really about the facts. At least that's my hope that you'll take away these facts. I've had the privilege of also meeting with many of the deans and the department chairs. I still have Cass and College of Engineering to do, which will be happening Cass the 16th and College of Engineering is after the first of the year. We'll likely might even wait till the next team comes, we'll see. Again, sharing a very similar presentation to give people perspective on exactly what the makeup is of the portfolio that Hi have ultimate responsibility for, as well as some of the facts and figures that I know have been discussed across this campus, particularly about this area. I think one of the things that oftentimes gets lost is you hear athletics. But the reality is is that responsibility that we have is for athletics, for recreation, and also for any of the community activities that are going on. So you'll see these three areas here. I certainly won't read this. We'll give it the slide, Vicki, you can take the slide and share with everybody. But the portfolio responsibility and the financial responsibility that I have that you'll see the numbers on covers all of these areas. It's not just our varsity teams. We do have 21 teams soon to be 22 in July 1 of 2025, when we add Women's Ice hockey. This also is inclusive of our spirit program, or mascot. Cheer and dance, which there are 80 members that that area reports directly to me, and as you know, serves our entire campus. And we also work in partnership with the marching band and support them pretty significantly as they travel and also obviously perform at our games. On the campus recreation side, I think all of you know this. This is for everybody. Faculty staff and students. This is classes. This is the Bob Carpenter Center, the Little Bob, the Globe Pers events that happen as well. There's a lot of things that we do to support the community and the activities. We also have two ice arenas that many of you may or may not know about. So specifically about athletics and the makeup of our student athlete population, we have over 600 varsity student athletes. Just some facts and figures here, 95% graduation rate in 2023, which is incredibly high, and one that we're proud of. Also, 95% of our student athletes are either in a master's program, a graduate program, or employed, six months after they, you'll see on the right hand side the different information about their majors. We recently had our highest GPA ever 3.3 GPA cumulative for all of our student athletes, something that we're incredibly proud of. And over 410 of our student athletes, actually 418 were on Deans list here at the University of Delaware. So Hopefully, what you take away from this, and it's certainly one of the things when I came to Delaware that was clear is how much our student athletes care about their academic experience, and they value their academic experience here. So it is certainly something that they take a lot of pride in. They're proud when they talk about why they come to Delaware. Academics is absolutely one of the most important reasons they choose to come to Delaware, because the experience they have with all of you in the classrooms that they're in. So one of the things, as I mentioned, you know, I have spent half of my career in the university development area, where I actually had the privilege of working with deans, department chairs, vice presidents on their fund raising areas and hiring their fundraisers and having them take a look at operational efficiencies and opportunities to be more effective. So I really look at myself and always have as a university citizen. So the ability for us to actually have a very close impact and a direct impact on student experiences. This slide actually has nothing to do with our student athletes. This slide has everything to do with the students that are on this campus. I think President Asanas mentioned this earlier about the faculty mentoring and how important that is to our campus, and there's no doubt about that. But we also do a lot of that within our world, the athletic training area, and this is semester numbers, one semester numbers. We have 52 students that are a part of it. We have 42 that are part of our sport science and analytics program our dietetics. This one I'm proud of as well, I'm proud of all of these, actually. When I got here, we have a great dietetics program and a College of Health Science. There was not a sport nutrition, rotation for those students. We were able to create that, and we now have 60 students that are interning with us a year, and they are choosing to come to Delaware because they want this to be their profession. The ability for us to be able to compliment the work they're doing in the classroom with the real world experiences within our area is something again that we're really really proud of And it means a lot. We do this within the recreation space. We do this within the sport management space. We have capstone interns that join us for semesters. And the ability for us, again, to be able to contribute to the academic mission and the experiences of these students is something that we care deeply about and very, very proud of. And then the academic partnerships. So again, since I've been here, we have partnered with faculty across campus and many of the schools and colleges. These are some of the examples that you can see here, Engineering driven medicine. We just recently did some work with the AI Center of Excellence on a project with our baseball team and pitching and sport analytics area. Research, concussion studies. We've done a lot of work with doctor Buckley on this, and on the business analytic side, every semester since I've been here, actually, we do a capstone project or two with that group. So again, it's about the students for us as well and the opportunity for us to be integrated in the work that you're all doing, where it makes sense, where it makes sense. And again, I think that's something that we're really proud of, and we're always seeking ideas. So if there's anybody in this audience that can imagine Partnering with us in any way, please feel free to reach out because it is something that we love to be able to do and have the opportunity to impact again, the students experiences. We're on several committees as well, you can see here too. Then the other thing that I think is oftentimes not clear to folks is space utilization. We have so many buildings, like I said, with campus recreation in particular, and about 103,000 square feet of our space is utilized by faculty. Teaching, offices. The ice rinks are actually used by faculty for research and study. So, again, we really work hard to support and work with our faculty on this campus and be incredibly integrated into the overall experience. So, This slide is simply about impact. And again, I won't read these, but the top, you can see the visibility impact that we have here. So this is social media impact, website views. And then we have over 1 million people that come across our doors every year. And probably more now. This is a number that we had a couple of years ago. We did also an economic impact study when we were deciding whether or not FBS was going to be the right thing for us to be doing as a university. And these were numbers that came back from that company. It was the same company, ESI that actually did the work with us as an institution. So One of the takeaways, I would say is every time we hold a football game here, there's over $1,000,000 to spend in the weekend for our community. So it's not an insignificant amount that we're able to contribute. And I think as we look to transition to FBS, and we get different types of teams, and we have people traveling from all over the country to come to a part of the country that they've never experienced. We're working very closely with our Chambers of Commerce, a tourism community within the entire state of Delaware to identify ways in which as we're bringing people into the state, we can actually say, como day early, go to the beach. Go to these restaurants, you know, enjoy your time on the East Coast and in this particular area, and certainly hoping that that will have an economic impact as well across our community. So this right here are the financials. So the funding model of athletics is a Something that I know has been discussed quite a bit on this campus. What you can see here in the yellow is our direct institutional support in the gray is the student fee funding that we receive and in the blue is our self generating revenue. This is over five fiscal years, and we did fiscal year 2024 and 25, just to be able to provide to you perspective. You can see here that in the five years, we've been able to reduce our institutional support by 24%. You can also see that we've been able to increase our self generated revenue by 58% or $5,000,000. You may ask, what is that self generating revenue? It's ticket sales, it's facility rentals, it's philanthropy, it's sponsorship. Those are the high level buckets. There's obviously a lot of other little things in there, but those are the things that we've really focused in on. And that's really been what has created that 50% increase in self generating revenue. You'll see that the gray section increased, and the reason is is because when I got here, there was not a student fee that was applied. And the next slide, you'll see how common that is, particularly at a place where you don't charge your students for any tickets or you don't charge them to use your recreation spaces, et cetera, et cetera. So it was something that we proposed to the board that they accepted, but we didn't go zero to 60 in the five years. It was an incremental increase year over year. So what you see here, the 11.5 is generally where we're going to be. It's also all dependent on enrollment. The number of students that we get is the amount we get. It's probably in the 11 to 11.5 is what I'm guessing that we're going to have as we continue to move forward. And then finally, the last thing I want to point out because this has also been something that has been quite a debate on this campus, and just wanted to clarify that the $5,000,000 FBS classification fee was something that we spent a lot of time fund raising for. So we had over 160 athletic donors that supported this. I think it's also important to note that when we started the study, and it doesn't necessarily change the fact that it's a $5,000,000 now, but when we looked at going FBS, it was $5,000. It was not $5,000,000. It changed to $5,000,000 and it was proposed in I believe it was August, and it wasn't voted on until October. And we had already made the decision and act we were making the decision and we were looking to accept an invitation in November. So we stepped back and we asked the question, what do we think about the long term implications of FPS and how does this $5,000,000 impact that decision? And I would tell you that, you know, we took the long view. Certainly $5,000,000 is not a small amount of money. I need you to hear that. It's not a small amount of money. But in the large scheme of things, and I think about my responsibility as it relates to this university in five years in ten years in 15 years and in 20 years, $5,000,000 was not significant enough to deter us from making this decision. So that's where we landed. But again, there was not a penny, and I'm happy to share any of the accounting, but there was not a penny of the university's money that was spent on this $5 million. It was all outside dollars. So this slide, as I mentioned, this gives you a comparison of what the funding model makeups are across many other universities that are similar to us. And you can see here again, the dollars are on this side and the percentages are in the box. Same colors as the slide previously. Yellow is direct institutional support, the gray is the student fees, and the blue is self generating revenue. You can see that we fit in Well. And if you really look at JMU and how much their student fee covers their entire athletic department budget, it's pretty remarkable. The other thing I'll point out here is the number of sports. So even though the dollars and the graph all looks kind of apples to apples, when you really dig into it, and this is where it gets complicated. We have 21 sports, and we have 700, 650 student athletes, as I mentioned. JMU has 18 sports. They have 385 student athletes. And that's because of the sports they sponsor. So even when you look at these numbers, you can't really get down to what's the investment per student athlete, unless you really understand how many student athletes make up those sports. So our dollar goes far, is I guess my point here. And again, it's something that we're really proud of the fact that we are able to support over 600 student athletes and 21 sports at this level. And the other thing that has come up, and I think this was even a comment or a question for me when I was last speaking about the makeup of our staff. And so what you'll see here is the total number of coaches and support that we provide. And this is what's tricky. Again, I'll say, it is a little tricky. We did our best. We are very integrated, right? And that's intentional. Being operationally efficient is intentional for us. So if you're doing marketing work, you're oftentimes doing marketing work for recreation, ice and pool, and a sport, right? So pulling some of this apart is not necessarily easy. But you can see here we did our best where we have about 31 of our staff support all of our areas. We have 76 coaches, that's obviously the primary bulk of the number of staff that we have, number of coaches we have, athletic support, marketing communications, in that area, and then student athletes support is the stuff that is directly attributed to the student athletes, athletic training, athletic medicine, strength and conditioning those particular areas. And then the administrators are us, right? So the people that we do it all, but we have bucketed ourselves as in the administrative bucket. More slides. So one of the things, there's a lot of conversation out there. Again, I think it's unfortunate what media does and what they choose to report on, which is not always 100% relatable to the University of Delaware? We're not the University of Michigan. I know what that place was like. I was there for a long time. I have peers that are there. We're the University of Delaware and proud of that. But I think that as things are evolving and college athletics in particular is evolving, one of the things that we've talked a lot about within our area shared with the president and my peers, as well as the board is what is not going to change here at Delaware? Who are we going to stay? Okay. And this is important. It's really important to us, and I would imagine, hopefully, it's important to you as well. But our commitment to the student athlete experience, the educational experience, as I said from the very beginning, is something they love. They come here for that. You know, that's a primary reason why they come here. So that commitment is not going to change. Our commitment to Title nine and gender equity is not going to change our commitment to being integrated into this university. My paycheck says the University of Delaware. I don't know what your says, but that's what mine says. And that's what we're committed to. We're going to make the best choices we can for the university as a whole. As you have also seen us really trying to integrate ourselves into the community and the state and rally around that three oh two and bring everybody together. And then using our resources responsibly. I hope that the slide that that we shared that showed the increase in our self generating revenue and the decrease in our direct institutional support is a demonstration over a five year period of our commitment to doing that. And I would also point out that the first year or two of that was as we were COVID. And we are very dependent on people at our experiences. And so the fact that we were able to come out of that and to be able to come back is something again, I give my team a tremendous amount of credit for because it took a lot of effort for us to be able to do that. And then the final slide here is, sorry, is When we made the choice, and again, it is a collective we here to transition to FBS and elect to go to Conference USA for a majority of our sports. We did it with these things in mind and specifically a focus for us. It's not going to happen overnight, but it's certainly a focus for us, and hopefully you've seen some of that already and what I've shared. The first one is continuing to reduce the direct institutional support, through self generating revenue. And I would also say expense management. A lot of people say, generate more revenue. That's certainly a choice, and we're going to do that. But also, how can we continue to be smarter with our resources, our time, our talent, and our money? Increase the visibility for our university. We are going to be on national television on a regular basis now. We are going to be on ESPN plus or ESPN. I don't know how many of you know flow sports. How many of you know flow sports? How many of you know ESPN? Even if you don't like sports, right? Right? You don't have to like sports. You know SPN. People know SPN. So our ability to be visible for our university, to be able to communicate and share the great stories of the work that you all are doing is something that I am incredibly excited about. Expand our admissions pipeline. We all know and understand what the demographics are changing. The growth is in the South. Period. Research shows that, some of it is happening at this university. So we need to be visible in those places. What I have here is just a map, and these are obviously the schools, but also the major cities, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Nashville And then there's other cities, obviously that are there, but being a part of those major cities and leveraging those and our presence there to be able to create that visibility and create that interest is something that we're really excited about. I can just say anecdotally. We obviously, I would share, we recruit from all over the world. We have over 80 students that are international, but, a large majority of our students are also from out of state. So we recruit from Florida and Texas and North Carolina. And when we get those students and those young people up here with their families, they love it. They absolutely love it. And so I feel pretty pretty positively, if you will, about how people are going to feel once they come and they visit our campus. The alumni engagement, again, being in these parts of the country, we do actually have alumni that live beyond the Mid Atlantic. I know, shocking. But it's true, they're there. So our ability to engage and be a part of those areas and bring them together. I can't tell you how many people are so excited for us to show up in Houston. We actually have about 500. I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but 500 alums in Houston, and they can't wait for us to come down and be able to cheer on the blue hens. And then the last one, like I said, this is really something that we focused on since I've got here, and that is just continuing to identify ways in which we can engage, enhance, be integrated into the academic experiences of our students and our faculty. You know, that will continue to be something that is incredibly important to me and to us, because, again, that's why we're here. Right. That's why we're here. All right. Questions. If any, I think I want a few minutes over. Sorry about that. Any questions? Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Of course. John. You statistics 650 plus students. And 32 in the Honors College. I'd like to get your comment on something. I often teach honors classes. Indeed, I teach the first year Honors classes. I've heard from three sources, but none of them are direct. It's all second hand that Coaches discourage recruits from going to the Honors College. And if they go to the Honors College, they discourage them from living in the Honors Dom. Do you comment on that sir. Absolutely. I would say that I would be very hard pressed to say a coach would not want a student athlete in the Honors College. I don't think that's the case. I think Dean Chages is here, and he meets with student athletes, prospective student athletes on a regular basis. And that is not something that we talk about. We are incredibly proud of having our student athletes in the Honors College. Living, we give our student athletes a choice, and I think Michael, you can speak to this as well. And that is something that is part of our culture of athletics. We want our student athletes to experience the university experience and the Honors College, and some choose to do that. I think many choose to do that, actually. But we also give our student athletes a choice if they want to live with a team. So, Michael, anything else you would add. So one I would add, I mean, we just we saw a slide today from President Sis about the field hockey team. And Ralph and I work closely together. Turns out in field hockey. He's recruiting against Ivy League schools. Yeah. So he is very interested in being able to tell them about the Honors College. And that's how he recruits a lot of field hockey players. Because I'm on the fact athlete Ford, we partnered very closely, and And, John, it's a good question, because when I started, I wanted to make sure that that wasn't happening because I also had heard that, Oh, you know, coaches might like students to live with their respective teams, but actually, we and Honors require them to live in the honors living learning community and that's where they end up ping to. And I know, for a fact, because I actually have meals every year with we have an honors, athletic group, and they really value being able to have a different community be a part of. So I think we've addressed that, but it's very valid. Yeah, I think it is a good question, and it could be something that perception would be that maybe that's the case. And the other thing comment I'll make off of that is that, you know, having been at other universities, being able to be a nurse and major in nursing, being able to major in education and be a student athlete is incredibly incredibly hard, we do it here at Delaware. We make that happen. I was going to say at Michigan, it was virtually impossible. Here, our coaches work with our student athletes, if that's what you want to major in and that's the experience you want, we're going to support that and we're going to provide you the opportunity to do both. Yeah. Yeah. Stewart talking political science. So one concern that a number of us had about the switch Chicop USA was the increase in travel time and travel costs. Specific travel time for students. I mean, when you're going to Florida and Texas, and even New Mexico. Okay. So I assume you guys did study of that. The chair that's what we found about what the difference? Absolutely. And we actually did. And I think one of the things that we benefit from Stewart is that we have, and again, you'll have this Come on. Here. We benefit from being in Philly and Baltimore airports and Wilmington, right? Believe it or not, a Bello now flies to some of the spots we're we're going to be competing in. And so we did that. On a cost perspective, we budgeted for that in the Pro forma. So by joining Conference USA, now we have money that comes to us for being on national television. That is not something again that we had in the CAA. We weren't on national television, and no one was giving us money to be on national television now, as you move into the group of five, you have that. So the money that we're receiving is offsetting all of the expenses that are coming. It's actually not as bad as you might think, and part of that is because you have in sports, you have a conference schedule and a non conference schedule, and they're usually about the same number of games. So, for example, in soccer, I think it's usually about seven and seven or maybe even more non conference. And because we have over 100 division one programs within 100 mile radius of us, All of our non conference scheduling or just about a large majority of our non conference scheduling is going to be local, which is the bus ride, so that can be a day trip. So while we may be spending a bit more on the travel across the conference, we're going to be spending less on the travel around our area. The other thing, from a time perspective, some of you may not realize and we stretch this conference is Northeastern, Boston, all the way down to Campbell in North Carolina. So those bus rides are not easy. Elon is 8 hours. So, those were the bus rides that many of our student athletes were on. Now they're on a three hour flight, two hour flight. So it's different travel is really what it is. And you see here, I mean, and we were very conservative because I just wanted to be conservative. That's how we tend to be here. Is these are the missed class times that we're anticipating. And we manage that now. Not ideal, and we certainly understand that, and we appreciate our faculty working with our student athletes on this. But I will tell you every sport has a study hall administered on the road. We work with our academic colleagues on proctoring exams if needed be. So there's a lot of things that we're already doing. This is not new to us. So it is something that we'll certainly continue to pay attention to, though. But we did a pretty deep dive into this. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. Hey, Chrissy. So my questions regarding and Jackie Falardo, here, the Secretary. Not wp fit. So the NCA house settlement is on the horizon, and will require all NCA institutions to contribute the back pay and damages related to the name and image, et cetera, which, if I understand correctly, over the next ten years would amount to, like, 2.8 billion dollar. Uh, how will this impact you need? Yeah. So how it's going to impact us from a budgetary perspective is that half of that money the NCA is going to pay. The other half is going to be conference specific. So each of the conferences are going to be taking out a portion of the distribution that's going to come back directly to the university. So we will be taking a $350,000 reduction. For ten years, and that's something that I'm going to have to figure out what to do with. So yeah, we know that that is in the pro forma that we did when we did the FBS transition and understanding all of our finances to make sure that we felt we could be responsible in this. But that's how it's going to play out for us here at Delaware. Any other questions? And you are welcome to reach out. Like I said, I'm happy to talk with any faculty. I'm happy to have coffee. I think that the biggest thing for me is being able to speak to the facts and the information that is available. I certainly understand what you read out there is not always true, but can create narratives that are not necessarily accurate to what's happening here at the University of Delaware. So I welcome those conversations. I want them to take place because I think they're really, really important because we're equally as committed to this university. And I can't tell you how incredibly proud our student athletes are to represent this university. Across the country. So I appreciate your time and your attention. And again, feel free to reach out any time. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you very much, Director Ray Walk, and for your commitment to transparency. We very much appreciate that. All right. We are now the new business portion of the meeting. Is there any new business that anyone would like to introduce? All right. I'm still waiting. Give you another second. Okay. That having been said, is there a motion to an right? All right. Thank you very. Enjoy your evening.
Faculty Senate Meeting 12/2/24
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