LFA General Assembly - Minutes - November 29, 2023

Fall 2023 Library Faculty General Assembly

November 29, 2024, 2pm-4pm

Watson Library Room 455 and Zoom

Attending: Andi Back, Eric Bader, Whitney Baker, Jill Becker, Josh Bolick, Jamene Brooks-Kieffer, Phil Cunningham, Deborah Dandridge, Gwen Geiger Wolfe, Jaime Groetsema Safi, Sarah Goodwin Thiel, Jon Giullian, Scott Hanrath, Brooke Harris, Elspeth Healy, Geoff Husic, Michiko Ito, Letha Johnson, Miloche Kottman, Lars Leon, Heather MacBean, Milton Machuca-Galvez, Sarah McCall, Scott McEathron, Sharon Reilly, Kent Miller, Amalia Monroe-Gulick, Carmen Orth-Alfie, Sara Outhier (LFA secretary), Amber Ovsak, Michael Peper (LFA chair), Angie Rathmel, Marianne Reed, Mary Roach, Brian Rosenblum, Adrianne Sanders, Paul Thomas, Beth Whittaker, Erin Wolfe, Eve Wolynes, Cecilia Zhang

MEETING AGENDA (MINUTES) Template

• Welcome, call to order – 5 minutes
• (Introduction of new faculty should occur in LFSA portion) 
• LFA committee reports (LCPT, SLPTR) – 5 minutes
  • LCPT reviews Promotion & Tenure files in the fall and Progress Toward Tenure Review files in January and February. 
  • SLPTR: Committee is responsible for reviewing sabbatical applications and Post Tenure Review files.
• University Faculty committee reports – 5 minutes 
  • Senate, Exec, Standing Committees: https://governance.ku.edu/faculty-senate-committees)
• Remarks from Dean Smith – 15 minutes
  • Suggest or invite topic
  • Questions & comments:
• New Business – 30 minutes
  • LFA Exec priorities for 2024-2025
  • Questions & comments: