Faculty Council on Benefits and Retirement – Discussed the importance of volunteers working over the summer on the retirement letter, health letter, and health comparison tool. They also discussed items that should be worked on next year.
Faculty Council on Tri-campus Policy – Met in person and discussed the end of year work, along with items of discussion for the next year.
Faculty Council on Students Affairs – They had quorum on and off throughout the meeting. Jason Johnson joined to discuss the student code of conduct changes. They also discussed items for next year.
Faculty Council on Research – Again quorum on and off. Meredith Reynolds joined the council to discuss evaluating proposed changes to IP ownership in the MRA. Helen Chu joined to discuss research administration operations and centralization. Finally, Sophie Pierszalowski joined the council to discuss faculty mentorship trainings.
Faculty Council on Campus Planning and Stewardship – They had a quick meeting where they went over the charge letter from the previous year and outlined items they would like to continue.
Faculty Council on Academic Standards – They discussed items of importance for next year’s work and returned to the topic of if FCAS is truly tri-campus and if not, how do they make it tri-campus.