I've been to Faculty Senate meetings in the past, and this one was a little different. For whatever reasons, many committee leaders did not show up to give their reports and President Stephen Kopp was also absent. As a result, this meeting was very short compared to the ones I've attended in the past.
At the end of every meeting, people in the gallery are given five minutes to speak to the Senate. Usually it is a member of the faculty, but at Thursday's meeting, a student from the Department of Housing and Residence Life spoke about a new tutoring program in the residence halls.
Karen Mitchell, from the math department, established a festival of learning on campus last year and spoke at length about continuing it. She was very passionate about allowing students the opportunity to display and present their research from various classes and encouraged professors in attendance to enter their students' work in the festival.
I think I may go to the next Faculty Senate meeting in a few weeks and compare that meeting to last weeks'. It would be interesting to see what, if anything, is different.
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