LFSA Exec - Minutes - August 13, 2025

LFSA Exec Minutes
8/13/2025

 

Present: Josh Bolick, Melissa Mayhew, Rebecca Schroeder, Elspeth Healy, Amanda Schlumpberger

Absent: None

Agenda:

  1.  Welcome
  2. Approve June Minutes [link]
  3. Housekeeping
    1. Meeting schedule (monthly)
      1. Fall Assembly, to be coordinated with LFA, LSA, Dean and Leadership Team
    2. Communication (email)
    3. Documentation (Teams)
      1. LFSA website updates (committees) needed
  4. Review LFSA 24/25 Annual Report [link]
    1. Review Standing Charges and recommendations of previous committee
  5. Committee Reports (confirm appointments, establish liaisons, update membership on LFSA site, get them going)
    1. Nominating and Balloting
    2. CRSA
    3. Code
    4. What to do about Salaries and Benefits given current hiatus and it no longer being relevant for faculty because of UAKU?  
  6. Space to comment on recent events
  7. New business
  8. Conclude 

 

 

 

Notes:

  • Approved June Minutes
  • Housekeeping
    • Meeting schedule – Secretaries to schedule monthly meetings, cancel those that are unneeded.
    • Communication – mainly through email, it’s more consistent than relying on Teams for notifications.
    • Documentation – Teams Site for storing files, folders organized by Fiscal Year
  • Review LFSA 24/25 Annual Report
    • Potential charge for future committees:
      • Maintain and update Nominating & Balloting Sharepoint site to ensure participation – Faculty-related responsibility
    • Invite Dean to visit LFSA meetings on occasion as schedule allows
  • Committee Reports (confirm appointments, establish liaisons, update membership on LFSA site, get them going)
    • Nominating and Balloting
      • Will hold two special elections to fill empty seats in LSA/LFSA and SLPTR.
    • CRSA
      • Liaison: Elspeth
      • Recommendation: Remove links on documentation (https://lfsa.ku.edu/crsa) as the resources are available elsewhere and the materials are out-of-date
      • Recommendation: Keep having meetings with new faculty, currently only done unofficially
    • Code
      • Liaison: Amanda
      • Code changes currently approved but not implemented yet.
    • What to do about Salaries and Benefits given current hiatus and it no longer being relevant for faculty because of UAKU?  
      • Options: could switch from LFSA to LSA or move to dissolve depending on needs.
  • Space to comment on recent events
    • Budget cuts
    • Effects of inflation on salaries
    • KS SB125 pronoun decree

 

Action Items:

Amanda/Melissa: Schedule monthly meetings

Elspeth: establish liaison with CRSA Committee

Amanda: establish liaison with Code Committee