FACULTY SENATE AGENDA
Thursday, December 10, 2020 ~ 3:00-5:00 PM
This meeting will be conducted via Zoom
(See Information Item #1)

 

  1. ELECTION RESULTS
    President Dwaine Plaza will announce the results of the President-Elect, Interinstitutional Faculty Senate Senator and Executive Committee elections.
  1. ACTION ITEMS
    1. Executive Committee Run-off Election
      If necessary, a run-off ballot will be distributed during the meeting to determine a tie for Executive Committee; biographical sketches for the Executive Committee candidates are online. Voting will take place during the meeting by Senators, proxies and ex-officio members who are present in the meeting room.
                Continuing Executive Committee members and their apportionment units are:
                David Bernell – Liberal Arts, Kate MacTavish – Public Health and Human Sciences and Shannon Riggs – Associated Faculty. Additionally, Susan Shaw, Liberal Arts, will join the Executive Committee as the senior Interinstitutional Faculty Senate Senator.
  1. Proposed CANVAS Requirement
    President Plaza will present a motion requiring all teaching faculty in the winter and spring 2021 terms to have a CANVAS shell that is turned on for each course. In that shell, at a minimum, faculty will need to have an updated syllabus, as well as an active academic calendar for assignment due dates.
  1. Faculty Senate Bylaws Proposed Revisions  
    President-Elect Selina Heppell will present the attached Faculty Senate Bylaws proposed revisions. There are three types of revisions – housekeeping, formalizing current practice and newly created verbiage. These were initially presented during the October Faculty Senate meeting, and Senators have had one month to review the proposed revisions.   
  1. PROVOST’S QUARTERLY REPORT 
    Provost Ed Feser will present his quarterly report followed by questions from the audience.
  1. SPECIAL REPORTS
    1. Kognito: Recognizing and Supporting Students in Distress Training
      Tess Webster-Henry and Bonnie Hemrick will explain the purpose and training related to Kognito.
  1. Student Learning Experience Pilot: Updates and Call for Winter 2021 Participation
    Robin Pappas, Chair of the Advancement of Teaching Committee, will share progress in the pilot to replace the eSET. Pappas will describe the Committee’s initial plans for pilot assessment, campus engagement, and winter term pilot, and solicit participation in the scaled-up winter phase of the pilot.
  1. Professional Faculty Ad Hoc Review Committee – Rolling Contracts
    Jeff Sherman, Chair, will provide an update of proposed rolling contracts and steps for moving forward with this effort.
  1. INFORMATION ITEMS
    1. Remote Participation in Faculty Senate Meetings
      Login instructions to participate remotely in Faculty Senate meetings were in the email message containing the agenda. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Faculty Senate meetings will be via Zoom until further notice.
                The Zoom session will open at 2:50 PM on the day of the Senate meeting. Senators and proxies must log in with their real names so that attendance can be accurately reflected; if you are a proxy, please indicate the Senator you are representing.
                If you experience problems logging in to the meeting, please contact Vickie Nunnemaker at [email protected] or Caitlin Calascibetta at [email protected].
      The preferred login method is to sign in using the Zoom App. If you are logging in using a browser, Chrome is the recommended choice. Users that cannot be authenticated through DUO will not be allowed to join the meeting.
           Non-Senators are welcome to participate but, to avoid unexpected Zoom incidents, the login instructions are not being published. If you wish to remotely participate in this or future meetings, please fill out the linked Qualtrics survey requesting to participate – you’ll need to provide your OSU email, name and unit (please, no abbreviations). Your OSU email will be subscribed to a listserv to receive Zoom instructions for future Faculty Senate meetings. If it’s the day of the Faculty Senate meeting, please send a request to Caitlin Calascibetta no later than Noon.
  1. Retiring Senators
    Thank you for participating in shared governance by representing your colleagues on the Faculty Senate. Your participation and engagement in discussions during meetings are greatly appreciated.
    If you are unsure when your term ends, please refer to the Faculty Senate membership list at https://senate.oregonstate.edu/current-year-membership.
  1. New Senator Orientation
    The New Senator Orientation will be held January 14 from 1:00-2:45, immediately preceding the January Faculty Senate meeting. If you are a continuing Senator but were unable to attend the orientation when you were elected, please contact Caitlin Caliscibetta at [email protected] if you would like to attend the upcoming session; please reference ‘New Senator Orientation’ in the Subject line of the message.
  1. 2021 Faculty Senate Meetings
    For Faculty Senators continuing in 2021, please reserve the following dates for Faculty Senate meetings for the remainder of the academic year. All meetings are scheduled to begin at 3:00 PM: January 14, February 11, March 11, April 8, May 13 and June 10.
         As a reminder, Senators are responsible for finding a proxy to represent them when unable to attend.
  1. Vacancies
    Please notify the Faculty Senate Office if a sabbatical, leave or retirement will prevent completion of your term as either a Senator or Faculty Senate committee/council member. If you are away more than one term, exclusive of summer term, a replacement is required. This information will assist us in identifying a replacement.
         If you are unsure when your Senator or committee/council term ends, you may check the Senator membership list or the Committees & Councils site.
  1. REPORT FROM AND DIALOG WITH THE FACULTY SENATE PRESIDENT
    Dwaine Plaza
  1. NEW BUSINESS

 

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MEETING, ALL SENATORS ARE REMINDED TO IDENTIFY
 THEMSELVES AND THEIR FACULTY SENATE
APPORTIONMENT UNIT WHEN SPEAKING.

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