MEETING START TIME: 5:49
ATTENDANCE:
Committee: Chairman Temple, Vice-Chair Morabito, Senator Benedict, Senator Darche, Senator Murray, Senator Needle, Senator Nelson, Senator Sardinha
Absent:
Non-Committee: Senator Keene
DISCUSSION:
Starfish
- Told Chairman Temple a starfish representative will contact him by the end of the month
Next steps on Indigenous peoples day
- October 6th meeting max of 3 people at 1:00pm in the fine arts center
OER
- Talk to Deans and advertise for it
OMBUD
- Met Thursday
- Working on the website
- Looking into faculty bylaws to see where it may say they have to meet with liaisons
- Japanese and flagship program
- The school allegedly advertised a Japanese major, however now they are no longer offering it
- IEP was bringing it to URI and they recruited a lot of people
- URI has to hire a new professor to write up a new major so it would take 5 – 6 years so it would not be given to the current students
- The students have spent time and money on something that is no longer happening
- Now there is a minor
- In the fall of 2015 they were recruiting
- Send all evidence to the student OMBUD, Senator Benedict
Jobs on campus
- Possible suit rental system for interviews
- 20 hour limit
- Possibly rules are being ignored
- Different pay grades
- Some get raises after working for a semester while others work for two years and still make minimum wage
- Better examples are needed
- Different pay grades
- Faculty senate committee or student employment center
- Advocating student rights
- Students would be able to sit on the faculty committee
- Academic Committee is leaning towards the idea of having a center
MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 6:14