July 9, 2024 Plenary Agenda

1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Virtual Only

Senators: Please see your email inbox for internal link via ZOOM, allowing you to participate during the meeting.

Public link: The meeting will be streamed via Teams here.

• Add to calendar (iCal event) – Teams livestream

Senate “housekeeping” information

Senators will use the Faculty Senate Microsoft PowerApps  “portal” to collect attendance and to vote on the legislative/advisory consultative reports during the meeting. Senators who have voting rights should have their full PSU email address (ex. abc123@psu.edu) as well as your two-step authentication app ready.

SENATORS ONLY:

• Logging attendance (browser or PowerApps app)
• Voting (browser)
• Voting Instructions

Senators are reminded to bring their laptop or smartphone for the purpose of logging into PowerApps to vote.

All Meeting Files

Agenda:

1. CALL TO ORDER
2. READING, CORRECTING, APPROVING, OR DISPOSING OF THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING
   • Minutes of the April 16, May 7, May 15, June 12, 2024 Meeting in The Senate Record
   • Senate Council Minutes June 18, 2024
3. COMMENTS OR REPORTS OF THE SENATE OFFICERS AND INVITED GUESTS
   • Senate Committee Reports on Consultation and Progress
   • Update from Shared Governance Task Force
4. GENERAL DISCUSSION
   • Commonwealth Campus Fact Sheet: Presented by Kristen Pueschel
5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS (Voteable) – None
6. NEW BUSINESS (Voteable)
   • AC76 Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Joint Task Force
     Amendments to Policy AC76 Faculty Rights and Responsibilities – Appendix A
7. INFORMATIONAL REPORTS (non-voteable)
   1. *Senate Curriculum Report of June 18, 2024 – Appendix B
   2. Senate Committee on Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
      The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Research at Penn State – Appendix C
      [10 minutes allotted for presentation and discussion]
   3. * Senate Elections Commission
      Report of 2024-2025 Senate Elections – Appendix D
   4. * Senate Elections Commission
      Roster of Senators by Voting Units for 2024-2025 – Appendix E
   5. Senate Council
      Report on Spring 2024 Academic Unit Visits – Appendix F
      [5 minutes allotted for presentation and discussion]
8. QUESTIONS FOR THE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST
   1. VSIP Participation Updates: Presented by Provost Tracy Langkilde
9. COMMENTS OR ANNOUNCEMENTS
10. ADJOURNMENT

(*Web-only reports.)

Next Meeting and Accessibility Information

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the University Faculty Senate will be held on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. This meeting will be held as a HYBRID meeting.

Senators are reminded to wait to be unmuted and identify themselves and their voting unit before speaking on the floor. Members of the University community, who are not Senators, may not speak at a Senate meeting unless they request and are granted the privilege of the floor from the Senate Chair at least five days in advance of the meeting.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Erin Eckley at ele2@psu.edu or call 814-863-1204 at least 2 weeks prior to the next meeting (Senate Meeting Dates) to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

We have enabled ZOOM automatic transcriptions for our meeting and invite you to turn that on if you wish. Future requests for live captioning will be fulfilled through Automatic Sync Technologies. All Plenary meetings are transcribed, and published in an accessible format, linked on our “Agendas & Records” page.