Category: Shared Governance

The Faculty Senate meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 24 in 110A Woolsey Hall and via Zoom.

The senators have been sent the meeting information. Faculty Senate meetings are held on the second and fourth Monday of each month.

For more information or to join the meeting via Zoom, email Lee Ann Birdwell at leeann.birdwell@wichita.edu.

The next University Staff Senate (USS) meeting is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18 in 142 Rhatigan Student Center, Harvest Room. All USS meetings are open to the campus community.

The joint Faculty Senate meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 10 at the National Center for Aviation Training, 4004 N. Webb Road, and via Zoom.

The senators have been sent the meeting information. The meetings are held the second and fourth Monday of each month.

For more information or to join the meeting via Zoom, contact Lee Ann Birdwell at leeann.birdwell@wichita.edu.

The joint Faculty Senate meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 10 at the National Center for Aviation Training, 4004 N. Webb Rd. and via Zoom.

The senators have been sent the meeting information. The meetings are held the second and fourth Monday of each month.

For more information or to join the meeting via Zoom, contact Lee Ann Birdwell at leeann.birdwell@wichita.edu.

University level committee service is an excellent opportunity to participate in shared governance and foster collegiality across colleges. The Rules Committee is in the process of recruiting faculty to serve on various Faculty Senate committees.

To assist the committee, faculty should complete the survey by Friday, April 7 to indicate their level of interest in serving on these committees.

The Faculty Senate thanks faculty for their participation.

University level committee service is an excellent opportunity to participate in shared governance and foster collegiality across colleges. The Rules Committee is in the process of recruiting faculty to serve on various Faculty Senate committees.

To assist the committee, faculty should complete the survey by Friday, April 7 to indicate their level of interest in serving on these committees.

The Faculty Senate thanks faculty for their participation.

The Faculty Senate meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 27 in 110A Woolsey Hall and will also be available via Zoom.

Senators have been sent the meeting information. Faculty Senate is held on the second and fourth Monday of each month.

For more information or to join the meeting via Zoom, email Lee Ann Birdwell at leeann.birdwell@wichita.edu.

The next University Staff Senate (USS) meeting is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 21 in 265 Rhatigan Student Center, Lucas Room. All USS meetings are open to the Wichita State campus community.

Faculty are called to participate in shared governance at the general faculty meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Friday, March 31 in 110 Woolsey Hall. Faculty will vote on the following two agenda items:

• General Education Transfer policy implementation (note that the lists on page two are now inaccurate because the proposal was amended in Faculty Senate to exclude first-year seminar courses from buckets one through six):
  • The General Education Transfer framework was adopted by the Kansas Board of Regents on June 15, 2022. How to best implement it at WSU was initially tasked to the General Education Committee. The committee proposal was amended in Faculty Senate, then approved in Faculty Senate on Feb. 27. In order to ensure that faculty have sufficient time to research and consider the implications of amendments to this proposal, any substantive amendments should be emailed to Susan Castro at susan.castro@wichita.edu by Tuesday, March 21. Find the running list of amendments proposed in advance here.
• Policy change allowing the General Assembly to meet electronically or dual mode:
  • The electronic meeting policy was approved by the Faculty Senate in 2022 but cannot take effect until approved by the General Assembly.

Direct accommodation requests, amendment proposals and questions to Susan Castro, president of the Faculty Senate, at susan.castro@wichita.edu.

The next University Staff Senate meeting is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21 via Zoom. All USS meetings are open to the Wichita State campus community.