November 19, 2024 Plenary Agenda
Time: 1:30 – 5 p.m.
Location: 112 Kern and 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:
- Logging attendance link
- Voting portal link
- Voting and attendance instructions
- Commonwealth Caucus Agenda
Senators are reminded to bring their laptop or smartphone for the purpose of logging into PowerApps to vote.
All Meeting Files
Agenda:
- CALL TO ORDER
- READING, CORRECTING, APPROVING, OR DISPOSING OF THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING
- Minutes of the October 15, 2024 Meeting in The Senate Record
- COMMENTS OR REPORTS OF THE SENATE OFFICERS AND INVITED GUESTS
- Senate Council Minutes November 5, 2024
- 2025-2026 Senate Calendar – Appendix A
- Invited Guest: Natalie Hernandez, Senior Director, Counseling and Psychological Services
[Postponed to the January 21, 2025 meeting.] - Senate Committee Reports on Consultation and Progress
- GENERAL DISCUSSION – None
- UNFINISHED BUSINESS (Voteable)
- Senate Self Study Special Committee
Report and Motion from Senate Self Study Special Committee on the Faculty Senate Representation Model (Legislative) – Appendix B - Senate Committee on Admissions, Records, Scheduling, and Student Aid
Revision to Senate Policy 05-80 First-Year Admission as a Baccalaureate or an Associate Degree Candidate (Legislative) – Appendix C
[Postponed.]
- Senate Self Study Special Committee
- NEW BUSINESS (Voteable)
- Senate Committee on Faculty Affairs
Revisions to AC40, “Annual Evaluation of Faculty Performance” (Advisory/Consultative) – Appendix D
[President’s Response] - Senate Committees on Faculty Affairs and Intra-University Relations
Revisions to AC61, “Faculty Contracts” to “Employment Conditions for Employees Classified as Academic” (Advisory/Consultative) – Appendix E
[President’s Response] - Senate Committee on Committees and Rules and Curricular Affairs
Revision to Standing Rules, Article II – Senate Committee Structure, Section 5(c) – Committee on Curricular Affairs (SCCA) (Legislative) – Appendix F - Senate Committee on Education
Motion: Table Legislation on Policy 49-60 Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory- Baccalaureate and Associate Degree Candidates
- Senate Committee on Faculty Affairs
- QUESTIONS FOR THE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST
- INFORMATIONAL REPORTS (non-voteable)
- Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs
*Senate Curriculum Report of November 5, 2024 – Appendix G - Senate Council
*Advisory/Consultative Report Implementation Update November 5, 2024 – Appendix H - Senate Committee on Education
Summary of Petitions by College, Campus, and Unit 2023-2024 – Appendix I
[5 minutes allotted for presentation and discussion] - Senate Committee on Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
*Penn State’s Research Data Management Policy Initiative – Appendix J
- Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs
- COMMENTS OR ANNOUNCEMENTS
- ADJOURNMENT
(*Web-only reports.)
Next Meeting and Accessibility Information
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the University Faculty Senate will be held on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. This meeting will be held as a REMOTE meeting.
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.
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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.