UTMB Faculty Senate Minutes
Monday, December 11, 2023
HEC Room 3.222
4:30PM-6PM
Open Senate Meeting:
- Call to Order – Shannan Rossi, PhD, MBA, Faculty Senate Chair
- Attendance “Roll Call” & Establishing Quorum
- Agenda Adoption
- Consent Agenda Adoption – Approved
- Review & Approval of Minutes– November minutes were approved.
- Unfinished Business & General Orders
- New Business
- IS Update & Security Changes
- Senators would like for the IS department to find more efficient ways to communicate when software updates will take place. Means of communication could be: Email, Newsletters, or phone notifications.
- Faculty Senate Communications
- The senators would like a means of communication to be put in place outside of the senate meetings. Options presented during the discussion are “Slack” or “WhatsApp”.
- Faculty Senate will have an IHOP Policy to review sometime between January-February to ensure compliance with Texas Senate Bill SB17 & SB18.
- The Chair will entertain a motion to move into executive session (closed session) for committee meetings.
- Dr. Kelly Carmichael motions to move into executive session. Dr. Karren Lewis provided a second.
- Announcements: None
- Adjournment
Dr. Robert Abbott motions to adjourn, Dr. Kelly Carmichael provided a second.