Faculty may attend the meeting as a guest- please refer to the email you receive from your school’s Faculty Senate Liaison, for Zoom link and information (also available on the agenda, posted on the Faculty Senate website, click on button labeled “Meeting Minutes & Agendas”). During the meeting, faculty have the opportunity to indicate their questions, input, faculty-advice, concerns, ideas, feedback, etc., by texting such, to your choice of two of the members of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee — their cell phone numbers will be posted in the chat box, at the (Zoom) meeting. You may also utilize the “raise your hand” Zoom feature to be recognized to speak, by the Senate Chair.

If you prefer a more private setting to raise your concern or suggestion, please contact the Chair of the Faculty Senate, Mike Sloane, at sloane@uab.edu.

Agenda:

• Chair’s Report – Mike Sloane
• Senate Committees Reports & Faculty/Senate Representatives on University-wide Committees Reports
  • Curriculum – Joe March
  • Research – Karen Cropsey
  • Faculty Development – Ken Gunnells
  • Finance – Mike Bertram
  • Governance and Operations – Emma O’Hagan
  • Faculty Policies and Procedures – Dan Givan
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Cmte – Doug Moellering
  • Graduate Curriculum Cmte – Daniel Smith
  • UWCs Senate-Representatives Reports to the FSEC – Mike Sloane; Ria Hearld; Senator-at-Large
• Presentation-Collaborations Sessions
  • Fall Admissions and Enrollment Numbers; Retention and Graduation Reports; New Recruiting Strategies; Residency Occupancy Rates and Use of Food Services – Provost Benoit & Bradley Barnes, VP Enrollment Management.
  • Annual Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) presentation – Frank Messina  
  • Benefits Open Enrollment. Options and Changes for 2021 - Mike Boyd, Benefits Office & Alesia Jones HR
  • Finances Update – Allen Bolton, SVP Finance & Administration
• New Business
  • Faculty Development Grant Program – Christopher Biga
• Old Business
  • None
• Open Forum & Suggestions of Items that Senate Committees Should Address
• Announcements

If you have any questions, you may contact the Chair of the Faculty Senate, Mike Sloane sloane@uab.edu, or, the Associate Chair of the Faculty Senate, Claudio Busettini cbus@uab.edu.