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University Faculty Senate
University Faculty Senate

June 24, 2025 Plenary Agenda

Time: 1:30 – 5pm.

Location: Livestream.

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

Public: The meeting will be streamed via Teams here.

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:

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
    1. Minutes of the April 29, 2025 Meeting in The Senate Record
  3. COMMENTS OR REPORTS OF THE SENATE OFFICERS AND INVITED GUESTS
    1. Senate Council Minutes May 27, 2025
    2. Senate Committee Reports on Consultation and Progress
  4. GENERAL DISCUSSION – None
  5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS (Voteable) – None
  6. NEW BUSINESS (Voteable)
    1. Senate Committees on Committees and Rules and Educational Equity and Campus Environment
      Revision to Standing Rules, Article II – Senate Committee Structure, Section 5(e) – Committee on Educational Equity and Campus Environment (Legislative) – Appendix A
    2. Senate Committees on Committees and Rules and Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities
      Revision to Standing Rules, Article II – Senate Standing Committees, Section 5(m) – Committee on Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities, Membership (Legislative) – Appendix B
    3. Senate Committee on Faculty Affairs
      A Statement on the Unconditional Support of Non-Tenure Line Faculty (Positional) – Appendix C
    4. BREAK
    5. Vote Results
  7. QUESTIONS FOR THE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST
  8. INFORMATIONAL REPORTS (Non-Voteable)
    1. Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs
      *Senate Curriculum Report of May 27, 2025 – Appendix D
    2. Senate Council
      *Advisory/Consultative Report Implementation Update May 27, 2025 – Appendix E
    3. Senate Elections Commission
      *Report of 2025-2026 Senate Elections (Informational) – Appendix F
    4. Senate Elections Commission
      *Roster of Senators By Voting Unit for 2025-2026 (Informational) – Appendix G
  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 9, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. This meeting will be held in a HYBRID format.

Senators are reminded to wait to speak until recognize, 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. All Plenary meetings are transcribed, and published in an accessible format, linked on our “Agendas & Records” page.

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