Meeting Minutes: April 7, 2022

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Guest Presentation: Leadership Update

• Kirk Schulz, WSU President
• Elizabeth Chilton, Provost, Executive Vice President & Chancellor, WSU Pullman

MEETING MINUTES

1. Call to Order. The Faculty Senate met on Thursday, April 7, 2022 in Lighty 403 and via Zoom. Fifty (50) members were present with thirty (30) absent and sixteen (16) non-voting members present. Called to order by D. Call, Chair at 3:30pm.
2. Approval of Minutes from the March 24th, 2022 Faculty Senate Meeting
   1. Approved unanimously
3. Announcements.
   1. Information Items.
      1. (Item # 2022.04.07_199_FS) Proposed Faculty Senate Meeting Schedule for 2022 – 2023 (Exhibit 199).
      2. The faculty senate officers met with the president and provost on April 6th, 2022.
      3. The Faculty Senate will report to the Board of Regents on May 6th, 2022
      4. The Faculty Senate will be included in a special Executive Budget Council Presentation on April 14th. All senators have been included in this optional meeting invite. Please contact faculty.senate@wsu.edu if you have any concerns relating to the remote Zoom Outlook invite.
   2. Reports
      1. Remarks by Faculty Senate Chair, Doug Call
         1. Appreciation for the service of all outgoing 2022 faculty senators and committee members.
         2. Updated faculty senate concerns and activities table (Exhibit A).
4. Additions or Changes to the Agenda.
   1. Updated information RAC Bulletin
   2. Motion from Tammy Barry to move all of today’s discussion items to action items given that this is the last Faculty Senate meeting of the year.
      1. Seconded by John Barber
      2. Unanimously approved
5. Agenda Items
   1. Action Items
      1. Approval of Undergraduate and Professional Degrees:
         (Item # 2022.04.07_197_Registrar) I move that the university faculty recommend to the president and the Board of Regents that, effective at the closing dates for each graduating class, those undergraduate and professional students who have completed degree requirements and whose names remain on the “Official List of Degree Candidates” be advanced to the degrees set above their names as members of the classes of May 2022, August 2022, and December 2022.  -B. Bitter
         1. 46 approved; 0 reject
      2.  Approval of Graduate Degrees: 
         (Item # 2022.04.07_198_Registrar) I move that the university faculty recommend to the president and the Board of Regents that, effective at the closing dates for each graduating class, those graduate students who have completed degree requirements and whose names remain on the “Official List of Degree Candidates” be advanced to the degrees set above their names as members of the classes of May 2022, August 2022, and December 2022. -L. Gloss
      3. (Item # 2022.03.24_174_PHSC) Proposal to create the new degree – Master of Healthcare Administration and Leadership (Exhibit 174A 174B 174C 174D). – J. Mattoon
         1. 44 approved; o reject
      4. (Item # 2022.03.24_175_PHSC) Professional Health Science major change bulletin no. 3 (Exhibit 175A 175B). – J. Mattoon
         1. 45 approved; 0 reject
      5. (Item # 2022.03.24_176_AAC) Undergraduate and Professional Major Change Bulletin No. 9 (Exhibit 176A 176B). -E. Silva Lopez
         1. 44 approved; 0 reject
      6. (Item # 2022.03.24_177_GSC) Graduate Major Change Bulletin No. 9 (Exhibit 177A 177B 177C 177D). -G. Wayman / E. Nicol
         1. 43 approved; 0 reject
      7. (Item # 2022.04.07_194_FAC, superseding #2022.03.24_179_FAC) Faculty Manual update to sections III.G and I.B regarding Emeritus Faculty Appointments (Exhibit 194A 194B). -J. McDonald
         1. 41 approved; 2 reject
      8. (Item # 2022.03.24_180_CoC) Recommendation to approve the 2022 new Faculty Senate Committee members (Exhibit 180A). -C. Horne
         • 45 approved; 0 reject
      9. (Item # 2022.03.24_181_Steering) Yakima Consortium Draft Memorandum (Exhibit 181A). -D. Call
         • 44 approved; 1 reject
      10. (Item # 2022.03.24_182_Steering) Proposed procedure for nominating inaugural candidates for WSU Faculty Regent position (Exhibit 182A). -D. Call
          • 44 approved; 0 reject
      11. *The following discussion Items were approved to action items
      12. (Item # 2022.04.07_192_Steering) Recommendation from Faculty Senate Steering Committee to carry out all necessary functions of Faculty Senate during the period of May 16, 2022 through August 15, 2022.
          1. 44 approved; 0 reject
      13. (Item # 2022.04.07_187_GSC) Graduate Major Change Bulletin No. 10 (Exhibit 187A). -G. Wayman / E. Nicol
          1. 44 approved; o reject
      14. (Item # 2022.04.07_188_GSC) Revise the MS in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology (Exhibit 188A 188B). -G. Wayman / E. Nicol
          1. 43 approved; 0 reject
      15. (Item # 2022.04.07_189_GSC) Revise the PhD in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology (Exhibit 189A 189B). G. Wayman / E. Nicol
          1. 45 approved; 0 reject
      16. (Item # 2022.04.07_190_AAC) Addendum One (1): Undergraduate and Professional Major Change Bulletin No. 9 (Exhibit 190A 190B). -E. Silva Lopez
          1. 42 approved; 1 reject
      17. (Item # 2022.04.07_191_AAC) Addendum two (2): Undergraduate and Professional Major Change Bulletin No. 9  (Exhibit 191A 191B). -E. Silva Lopez
          1. 43 approved; 0 reject
      18. (Item # 2022.04.07_193_Steering) Admissions Subcommittee Update (Exhibit 193A).
          1. 43 approved; 0 reject
      19. (Item # 2022.04.07_195_Steering) Syllabus Subcommittee composition and tenure Update (Exhibit 195A)
          1. 45 approved; 0 reject
      20. (Item # 2022.04.07_196_GSC) Discontinue Master of Education in Educational Psychology (Exhibit 196A 196B 196C). G. Wayman / E. Nicol
          1. 47 approved; 1 rejected
6. Constituent Concerns.
   1. Major debt concern and request for proceeding action into the future. -J. Barber
   2. For those senators that can’t make the budget meeting on April 14^th Faculty Senate will have the YouTube stream available and accessible by the main webpage.
7. Adjournment. 4:30pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Matthew Hudelson, Faculty Senate Executive Secretary