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University Faculty Senate

July 11, 2023 Agenda

1:30 p.m.

REMOTE ONLY Via ZOOM at 1:30 p.m

For “housekeeping” information about the meeting both in person and ZOOM, please see: https://pennstateoffice365.sharepoint.com/:w:/s/SenateCommunications/EQ5ZCdNjkUJAjnxmtDAt9OMBJB5zXLGyfQ8p2q1TrM6lPA?e=yxpUug.  

We 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 (Duo) ready.

Logging attendance (browser or PowerApps app): https://apps.powerapps.com/play/73574a32-2a2e-4b22-9e67-9ff35660cad3

Voting (browser): https://apps.powerapps.com/play/73574a32-2a2e-4b22-9e67-9ff35660cad3?VoteID=FSO

(Voting via PowerApps app: https://apps.powerapps.com/play/e0b60d16-9b84-431b-9bbc-0dcfaf65b173?tenantId=7cf48d45-3ddb-4389-a9c1-c115526eb52e)

Voting Instructions: https://senate.psu.edu/senators/voting-attendance-instructions/ 

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

Senate Agenda (DOCX / PDF)

ALL July 11, 2023 MEETING FILES

  1. MINUTES OF THE PRECEDING MEETING

  1. COMMUNICATIONS TO THE SENATE

  1. REPORT OF SENATE COUNCIL – Meeting of June 20, 2023

  1. ANNOUNCEMENTS BY THE CHAIR

  1. COMMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY

  2. COMMENTS BY THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST OF THE UNIVERSITY

  3. FORENSIC BUSINESS

Senate Committee on Faculty Benefits                                                                                         

  1. UNFINISHED BUSINESS – NONE

  1. LEGISLATIVE REPORTS

Senate Committee on Admissions, Records, Scheduling, and Student Aid

  1. ADVISORY/CONSULTATIVE REPORTS

Senate Committee on Faculty Affairs

  1. POSITIONAL REPORTS – NONE

  1. INFORMATIONAL REPORTS

Senate Committee on Faculty Benefits

Senate Committee on Libraries, Information Systems, and Technology

*Web-only reports.

  1. NEW LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS

  1. COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE UNIVERSITY

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the University Faculty Senate will be held on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, at 1:30 p.m.  This meeting will be held in person in 112 Kern AND via ZOOM.

Commonwealth Caucus will not be meeting in July.

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 (September 12, 2023) 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: https://senate.psu.edu/senators/agendas-records/