Faculty Council on Benefits and Retirement – The chair shared an update about the health comparison tool that the council had worked on in the previous year and shared that to make it more flexible the code had become substantially more difficult. Thus the tool and the benefits letter regarding open enrollment were pushed to the next meeting. The council reviewed the benefits letter regarding retirement and approved it. The email with this letter will hopefully be going out next week. HR also shared an update on the RFP process and timeline.
Faculty Council on Tri-Campus Policy – The council introduced themselves, reviewed the charge letter, and approved it.
Faculty Council on Faculty Affairs – They received an update from APF about the Big 10 Academic Alliance which had occurred the previous week. There was extensive discussion of a Class A legislation on Bylaws and Voting after receiving input from the chair of the code advisors regarding “secret ballots”. A minor change was made and the council approved the legislation. The chair and members gave background on previous work regarding faculty service in promotion and tenure.
Faculty Council on Academic Standards – They voted on and approved the undergraduate learning outcomes. The presidential designee then shared a presentation on student access to majors and there was discussion of how FCAS could help in the processes. There was also discussion of cleaning up the FCAS website.