Approved minutes of senates and their committees will be posted on Fridays, when available.

​Senate Committee on Finance and Planning (SCFP), February 6, 2018
In these minutes:
 ​​​​Overview of University Debt; Academic Units with Significant Financial Concerns; Benefits for Fellows; 2017 Economic Impact Study

Senate Research Committee (SRC), February 12, 2018
In these minutes:
 ​​Child Development Center Closure Update; CTSI Hub; GCC Research Priorities; Sample/Specimen Retention Policies for Retired PIs; Policy Review with the Office of Human Resources: Parental Leave and Postdoc Policy; Decline of Total Award Amounts (Annual Report)

​Senate Committee on Finance and Planning (SCFP), February 20, 2018
In these minutes:
 ​​Discussion with Deans of Design, Education and Human Development, and Continuing Education; Organics Recycling Recap; Overview of Annual Financial Report; Superbowl Financial Transactions Related to the U of MN

Joint Meeting of the Academic Health Center Student Consultative Committee (AHC SCC) and Academic Health Center Faculty Consultative Committee (AHC FCC), February 21, 2018
In these minutes:
 Health Sciences Education Center: How Faculty are Preparing to Use the New Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs); Update on AHC Survey and Report to the President; Discussion of Student Concerns over New AHC Social Media Policy

Senate Library Committee, February 28, 2018
In these minutes:
 ​​Faculty Communications on MyU and Other Outlets for Communications About Affordable Content; Discussion of the Specific Content that SLC Wants to Advance

Senate Research Committee (SRC), March 5, 2018
In these minutes:
 ​​​​Policy Review: Business Expense Policy, Hospitality and Other Special Expenses Policy; Policy Review: Equity and Access: Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Names and Pronouns; Required Reporting for Sexual Misconduct in Research; Current Postdocs at U/ how affected by change in salary floor

Senate Committee on Information Technologies (SCIT), March 6, 2018
In these minutes: ​​​​
​Social Media at the University of Minnesota; PeopleSoft

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