LSA Exec - Minutes - January 16, 2026

LSA Exec Minutes
01/16/2026

Present: Rebecca Schroeder, Melissa Mayhew, Andy Poland, MC Mack, Sydney McFadden, Grace Brazell, Warren Lambert

Absent: N/A

Agenda:

Notes:

December Minutes approved.
LFA & LSA presidents have been having discussions with leadership about making a statement on raises.
Student Shadowing program review
- Leadership agrees that this should count as paid work hours for students.
- Initial reach-outs have been sent, the date(s) are still undecided.
LSA meet & greets
- Tentative: February 10th in the Kettle.
- Tentative plan to include a guest speaker of sorts to talk about their work for these.
Student Assistant position descriptions
- PDs have been collected; Mike is going to do a full audit that includes KU student positions across KU to see if pay raises are possible.
- Staff and Faculty can also review their position descriptions to see if those also need updating.
TD updates
- Next Share-Out scheduled for Feb 3rd.
- $2K allocated for this year’s bus tour.
- P-cards are highly preferred for using funds. Funds can be used for classes and events outside of KU, such as those at the Lawrence Art Center, chess tournaments, etc.
  - These should count as work hours.
- Syd wants to add clear guidance on LSA site for creative uses for Talent Development funds. Written resources are needed to increase confidence in use.
Website updates
- The website is mostly updated, but the LSA Sharepoint/Intranet site could use an update as well.

Action Items:

LSA members are to review LSA Sharepoint/Intranet site and let Syd know which things need to be updated.
Rebecca/Syd: Put out request to Brooke to define acronyms on first-use for all-staff meetings so people know what they mean.