LSA Exec - Minutes - April 6, 2017

LSA Executive Committee 

April 6, 2017 

Present:

Ann Snow, Greta Valentine, Leah Hallstrom, Sunita Gandhi, Sharon Riley Guest: Brian Moss 

Approval of meeting minutes 

∙ Approved March 1 minutes as written 

Discussion of tuition assistance survey 

∙ Distributed the survey; had approximately 61 responses. Ready to pass this on to admin. ∙ Andrea Pitt is a member of the University HR committee on this issue 

∙ E-mail from the Provost’s office indicated HR would be seeking more funding sources; is  currently accepting applications for summer 2017 

∙ Compile survey results as well as all comments and share with Library Admin 

LSA exec elections 

∙ Elections need to be completed by May 17 

∙ For representatives: hold another election, add names of those interested in continuing 

Overall governance elections 

∙ Liaisons checked with committee members to confirm vacancies 

May meeting conflict 

∙ Greta to reschedule meeting so employees can attend Territorial Kansas presentation 

Orientation mentors 

∙ Brainstormed ideas for recruiting new mentors, raising awareness of program ∙ Currently have 8; need some more 

∙ Main responsibility is a tour, answering questions, taking the new hire out to lunch, and telling  them about Libraries governance 

∙ Talked about mentioning it at the beginning of research sharing forum 

∙ Could also ask people who are relatively new (about 1 year) to see if they would be willing since  they have a sense of what questions a new hire would have 

∙ Thinking about a place to put this information on the Libraries website to refer people to  regarding responsibility 

Campus climate study 

∙ Thought the number of people who had indicated they thought of leaving the University was  noteworthy 

∙ Noted that concealed carry may be a contributing factor 

∙ Ann brought up proposed faculty union on campus, which included a list of issues they felt  weren’t being addressed, which may be a response to the report 

∙ If/when Libraries get our own aggregate results, could we share a summary with Libraries? ∙ At SenEx someone brought up unconfirmed issue of Rankin sending data to OIRP at KU and  having OIRP perform aggregate anonymizing/analysis; SenEx looking into this. Brian to keep LSA  Exec informed

Other Business: 

∙ Brian updated the group on USS Handbook availability via Policy Library. Concern was raised  that staff need something more navigable for items like this 

∙ Due to Ann raising this issue in University Senate, Personnel Affairs committee working with HR  to put together a more intuitive handbook 

Action Items 

∙ Greta and Leah: compile survey results and share them with Kevin 

∙ Leah and Marianne: bring up climate survey results with Kevin in next meeting

∙ Greta: Reschedule May LSA Exec meeting