LFA Exec - Minutes - February 6, 2019

Library Faculty Association (LFA)

Executive Board Meeting Notes

February 6, 2019 (Approved)

Present (in alphabetical order by last name) were Neal Axton, Jill Becker, Marcella Huggard, Lars Leon, Scott McEathron, and Betsaida Reyes

Lars Leon calls the meeting to order. 

Review of past minutes.

January 15th Executive Committee minutes approved.

Governance Updates

New faculty and staff luncheon is being coordinated with LSA.

Brief discussion of new budget model. Part of model will likely include items such as student success faculty and staff engagement, and research success. A faculty committee to evaluate how to define Research Success includes Dean Smith and Amalia Monroe-Gulick.

Awards Discussions

Discussion of Sharepoint resources of tenure status as well as LFA eligibility for Anschutz and Anschutz-Budig Award.

Discussion of faculty rank at KU and whether that should apply to the award as a bright line rule or a rule based upon the totality of the circumstances. Faculty credit is based on the prior faculty credit given to librarians when they begin their KU position.

Executive Board Composition Discussion

Discussion of amending the number of members for the LFA Executive Board.

Executive Committee votes to refer to Assembly amendment to change board to five (5) member constituted by executive committee.