Consultation Completed

It is time for the University to review and update it's list of "peer" institutions.  These are the Universities that we use for comparison to see how we are doing in various benchmarks. 

They are proposing that we use the same process to establish a revised set of peers that we will submit to the board for approval.

However, they would also like to discuss the need for different sets of peer groups for different purposes (e.g. student success measures vs. faculty salaries).  This would be new.

This will be the second consultation on the proposed nursing program prior to the first reading of the Board of Regents on the Proposal.  

We have been gathering questions from the Faculty about the proposed program. The consultation will begin with the Adminstration addressing those questions. 

Due to issues of timing with the Board of Regents (BOR), the administration is asking us to accelerate consultations with the Faculty Senate.  The Senate is being asked to review and raise questions, not about the possible restructuring of a School of Health Sciences (this is not a done deal, consultation have just started with departments, we will be consulted later), but only on the basic structure of a four-year degree in Nursing.

The Senate has been asked to consult on a policy addressing issues of Faculty Misconduct.  The reason for calling a special meeting is that this needs to get in place in order to comply with AAUP standards.  It is also important to have this in place in order to provide due process in the (admittedly rare) event that a faculty member is accused of certain types of serious misconduct.  But it is also important to "get it right" so-to-speak.  A Provost's Working Group consisting of Jim Mattingly, co-Chair, John Vallentine, co-Chair, Becky Hawbaker, Amy Nielsen, Shar Self and Ky

The accelerated program allows students who are accepted into the accelerated program to take up to 12 credit hours of graduate courses in their 4th year of undergrad. The undergrad program doesn't change in an accelerated program; rather the Grad Council updated policy so that for accelerated programs the graduate courses will double count for both the undergrad and grad degrees. Prior to this, it was prohibited for graduate credit to double count in any situation.

The Committee working on the Univesity Strategic Plan would like to present and get comments on the current state of their work.

This is a draft policy for possible inclusion in the faculty handbook.

The library would like to consult with Faculty Senate. 

A priority for NISG for numerous years has been reducing dating violence on our campus. Last year, NISG proposed the we adopt the Green Dot bystander intervention program and offered to fund its first year on campus. President Nook approved the proposal and the Green Dot initiative has begun implementation during this year. Isabella Perksen, who is leading the Green Dot initiative for the Office of Compliance and Equity Management and would like to make a presentation to the Faculty Senate.

Members of the Faculty Handbook Committee have requested a consulation with the Senate about new voting items for the 2023 handbook.  They approved 13 changes to the handbook.  All votes were unanimous.  After the consultation with the Faculty Senate, they will go to the Provost.  If the Provost rejects or modifies any changes, or makes other changes, the Provost will provide the FHC (and, indirectly, the University Faculty Senate) with written reasons for the changes.