LFA Exec - Minutes - November 8, 2021

Library Faculty Assembly Executive Meeting

Monday, November 8, 2021, 1 pm via Microsoft Teams

Attendees

• LFA Executive Members: Angie Rathmel, Scott McEathron, Sara Morris, Erin Wolfe, and Lea Currie
• Guests: None

• Angie called the meeting to order at 1:01
• Minutes from the last meeting were approved with two corrections.

• Old Business

  • Follow-up Chair/Secretary Appointments (Liaisons)
    • Liaisons reported various committee member roles
  • Meetings with the Dean update
    • Angie reported on the meeting on 11/3. Topics discussed included hires/resignations/retention and talking about what we can stop doing given lack of people, faculty evaluations (coming from Chris Brown soon), and architecture plans.
    • They did not discuss the listening circles discussion
  • Nominating & Ballot and Dean Review Committee status
    • 10/22 the election results given to Provost, there will be 8 meetings, the members will go to four.  All the work will take place in eight weeks.
    • The Provost was given the results of our election and will pick from that list. Based on the Code of LFSA Angie will release the results.

• New Business

• HR Hires & Departures Data
  • We looked at the document and discussed the data. Perhaps looking at departmental level and rank of those who left as a new lens.
  • There was some discussion about analyzing the Code to determine if committee membership needs to be modified given the decreasing number of faculty.
• Assembly meeting planning
  • Discussed having our meeting with LFSA and LSA. Proposed as December 16th combined LSA 2pm | LFSA 2:45pm | LFA 3:15pm 
  • Angie will talk to Mary Rapple about the agenda for LFSA to determine meeting length.
  • Angie reviewed possible topics for LFA meeting: Retention/Data--reviewing Exec's discussion—asking for input from Assembly, Loss of Mentors, traditional meeting topics
• Adjournment
  • The meeting adjourned at 1:59

Submitted by Sara E. Morris