UTMB Faculty Senate Minutes
Monday, December 11, 2023
HEC Room 3.222
4:30PM-6PM

Open Senate Meeting:

  1. Call to Order – Shannan Rossi, PhD, MBA, Faculty Senate Chair

  2. Attendance “Roll Call” & Establishing Quorum
    • Quorum Met 
  3. Agenda Adoption
    • Consent Agenda Adoption – Approved 
  4. Review & Approval of Minutes– November minutes were approved.

  5. Unfinished Business & General Orders
    • -None currently. 
  6. New Business
    1. 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.
    2. 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”.
    3. Faculty Senate will have an IHOP Policy to review sometime between January-February to ensure compliance with Texas Senate Bill SB17 & SB18.
  7. 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.
    1. Announcements: None

    2. Adjournment
      Dr. Robert Abbott motions to adjourn, Dr. Kelly Carmichael provided a second.