December 11, 2025

MEETING INFORMATION

Date

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Time

3:15 – 5:15 p.m.
Business 3:30 – 5 p.m.

Location

Columbia Room in the Werner University Center

Zoom link:

Agenda

Meeting Agenda ()

Draft Minutes

Draft Minutes for November 13, 2025 ()

 

 

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MATERIALS

Institutional ReportsÌý

  • Faculty Senate President’s (Michael Baltzley)

  • University President’s Report (Jesse Peters)

  • University Provost’s ReportÌý(Jose Coll)

  • Interinstituional Faculty Senate (Ricardo Pelegrin and Tad Shannon); IFS Opposing the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”Ìý

Consideration of Old Business

1. Faculty Senate Executive Committee At-large member election

2. for creation of an online form for updating name and demographic information (Michael Baltzley)

  • asked of WOU students

New Business

1. 2025-26 Faculty Senate officer elections

2. Curriculum Proposals

  • Education Leadership Certificate (Alicia Wenzel)
  • Principal License Certificate (Alicia Wenzel)

Informational Presentations, Open Discussions, Committee Reports, Announcements

1. and discussion regarding Experience (Registrar’s Office)

  • submitted to the Registrar

2. Discussion of Graduate Studies Faculty Leadership positionÌý

  • Discussed as part of

3. Call for future business—New Business, Presentations, Discussions

4. Announcements

  • Call for 2 faculty members for the Academic Sustainability Committee. Contact Steve Scheck (schecks@wou.edu) if you are interested.
  • Call for 2 faculty members for the Tuition and Fees Committee. Contact Mike Baltzley (baltzlem@wou.edu) if you are interested.
  • Please be sure to review the document.
  • to President’s Cabinet regarding WOLF Student Experience Form data.
  • from the HECC.

5. Closing discussion items from the floor

 

NEW BUSINESS ITEMS

Please submit new business items using the following link: /facultysenate/submit-new-business/

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IMPORTANT DEADLINES THIS YEAR

Curriculum proposals

To provide sufficient time for all the review steps (committee and Faculty Senate), the deadline for submitting curriculum proposals for inclusion in the next academic catalog is the second Thursday of February for course proposals, program changes and new certificates. New programs take longer to process.

See wou.edu/curriculum and the Deadlines and timing page for more specific information.

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