After updates from Provost Pam Benoit and a presentation from the CEO of the Ohio University Foundation Bryan Benchoff, the senators will consider six different resolutions.
At the first faculty senate meeting of the semester, six resolutions will be considered by the senators and three of them will be up for a vote after their second reading.
The February meeting will begin with updates from Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit. After the updates, Bryan Benchoff, the Vice President for Advancement and CEO of the Ohio University Foundation, will present the role and procedures of the foundation, Faculty Senate Chair Beth Quitslund said in an email.
The first resolution is a movement to increase the number of non-tenure track faculty senators. The resolution would add eight additional senators from Group II and Clinical faculty in the next three years, Quitslund said in an email.
The second and the third resolutions are both revisions to the language used in the faculty handbook. The second resolution clarifies the wording on the early retirement policy and the third allows for the appointment of non-tenure track faculty senate chairs, according to the meeting agenda.
The other two resolutions that will not be voted on at the February meeting are from the Professional Relations Committee. It will be the first reading of those resolutions and they will also make changes to the faculty handbook if they are passed.
The last resolution will be proposed by the Educational Policy and Student Affairs Committee and it aims to revise the language in the undergraduate catalog regarding transfer students.
If the resolution passed, students relocating to the Athens campus from regional campuses will have to complete at least 12 credits through a regional campus first. If the students do not complete the required amount of credits, they will have to apply as a new or transfer student, Quitslund said in an email.
The change is up for consideration because the OU regional campuses operate on open admission and the Athens campus has a more limited and competitive admission process, according to the meeting agenda.
Originally, the first faculty senate meeting of the semester was going to be in January but the meeting was cancelled.
“We had to cancel the January meeting because of a scheduling issue with the speaker we were going to have come in,” Quitslund said. “Since we have gone to semesters we have often cancelled the January meeting.”
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