At Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting, Ohio University faculty members will get the chance to speak to members of the Board of Trustees ahead of Friday’s meeting and weigh in on the creation of a building for student-athletes.
Board Chair David Brightbill and Vice Chair David Wolfort will attend the beginning of Faculty Senate’s second meeting of the semester Monday night, where faculty members will get some of their concerns and questions addressed.
Questions were collected, narrowed down and sent to Brightbill and Wolfort in advance of Monday’s meeting, said Beth Quitslund, chair of Faculty Senate.
Although the content of the questions vary, Quitslund said many of the ones to be discussed will help foster better relations between the faculty and Board members.
The Executive Committee, along with the Educational Policy and Student Affairs Committee, will present a resolution to solicit faculty opinions on the proposed Sook Academic Center, a building for intercollegiate student-athletes to study at the north-end zone Peden Stadium.
The facility, which was spearheaded by a $2.25 million donation from alumni Perry and Sandy Sook, was announced by OU in September.
The final fundraising goal for the project is $5.5 million.
The Professional Relations Committee will present four new resolutions for first reading:
Second Resolution to Provide Consistent Language in Sections II. C and II. D of the Faculty Handbook Pertaining to Faculty Rank and Status and Appointments
Resolution to Clarify Procedure for Group II Annual Evaluations
Resolution to Revise the Workload Necessary to Move a Faculty Position from Group III to Group II
Sense of the Senate Resolution on the Need to Need to Establish a University-
Wide Group II Teaching Award
Several resolutions from senate’s meeting in September will also be up for second reading, the majority of which deal with language updates to the Faculty Handbook.
