On April 1, 2019, the Social Concerns Committee and Equity, Access, and Diversity Committee approved a statement regarding the report of the Task Force on Building Names and Institutional History and its reception at the Board of Regents meeting. Read the full statement.

On March 15, 2019, the Faculty Consultative Committee (FCC) sent a letter to the Board of Regents requesting a special session devoted to the debate and discussion of the report of the Task Force on Building Names and Institutional History. This letter comes in the wake of the March 8, 2019 Board of Regents meeting, at which President Kaler presented his recommendation to rename Coffman Memorial Union, Coffeey Hall, Middlebrook Hall, and Nicholson Hall. Read the full letter.

Missy Juliette never planned to work in finance. In fact, she swore off math in seventh grade. When she was young, she had dreams to be a teacher. But in 2012 she started working at the University as a principal account specialist in the College of Education and Human Development (CE

Juliette embraces challenge and hard work. She grew up in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, graduating high school with a 4.2 GPA. She was a PSEO student her junior and senior year, and she took her last final while she was in labor with her son, Alec! She finished the exam at 7:00 p.m., and he was born a few hours later, at 12:54 a.m. Funnily enough, she also had her daughter, Zoie, at 12:54 (p.m.) six years later.

When she started at the University, she was a union worker and she participated in the AFSCME rallies during the wage contract negotiations. Once, when AFSCME was working through the parental leave policy, Juliette was asked to speak with the negotiating committee. She also served on the AFSCME Executive Board. She believes that people should use their voice if they are frustrated with the process.

When Juliette moved into a civil service position in 2016, she became involved in University Senate governance right away. She serves as a civil service senator, a Civil Service Consultative Committee (CSCC) member, a co-chair of the Joint Compensation Committee, and chair of the Civil Service Communications and Outreach Subcommittee, which has made significant progress while she has been involved. In addition to publishing a consistent newsletter for civil service constituents (which gets high readership), she has ushered in more brown bag sessions to help civil service employees understand their employee benefits. She likes to keep civil service employees informed because it gets more people involved in governance. She believes there will always be things to fight for, like pay and benefits, and she appreciates the ability to collectively have a voice in those issues. Ultimately, her goal is to continue to make the University a great place to work.

Volunteering her time for meaningful causes is a significant part of Juliette’s life. In addition to working in civil service governance, she is a Wellbeing Champion, and a member of the Financial Systems User Network (FSUN) on campus. She is also starting a Toastmasters Club on the West Bank Campus. Juliette also volunteers her time outside of the University as a volunteer at White Bear Lake Emergency Food Shelf, and a member of the Board of Directors for Exodus Lending, a non-profit that helps people break the payday loan cycle. She frequently speaks in public on the organizations’ behalf, visiting with the legislature, and once giving a speech at a fundraiser to a crowd of 160 people. She helped raise $16,000 that night. When not volunteering, Juliette does crafting and card-making; she even has her own Etsy shop. How does she do it all? She loves coffee, and drinks lots of it. She says if coffee could be considered a hobby, she’d add it to her list.

Juliette has already accomplished many things in her time in civil service governance, but she is always looking ahead. She hopes to help civil service employees gain bereavement leave, and she would like to see the Regents Scholarship return to a fully covered benefit for the masters program. She believes education is the key to moving up in the world, and the Regents Scholarship is an important benefit that would afford civil service employees the opportunity to go back to school.

Her involvement in governance has taught her many things. She has gotten to know what channels to go through, and who to work with to try to make the right changes. She believes that teamwork is a key to driving change, and she has seen it work in the cross-collaborations she has been part of, like the childcare announcement last year and the Joint Compensation Commission that was founded this year between P&A and Civil Service senates. She knows that there are a lot of talented people working at the University, and those voices make the institution a really great place to work for.

Oh, and she aced her final exam before she headed to the hospital.

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

Student Senate, November 1, 2018 (Minutes approved at March 14, 2019 Student Senate Meeting)
In these minutes: Administrative Response to Senate Actions; Student Senate Nominating Subcommittee - Approval of Appointed Senators; Minutes for May 3, 2018; Assembly/Association Updates; Student Senate/Student Senate Consultative Committee Chair Report; Procedures for Elections of 2018-19 Student Senate Officers and Committee Members; Election of One (1) Student Senator to the Student Committee on Committees; Update on the President's Initiative to Prevent Sexual Misconduct 

University/Faculty Senate, November 1, 2018 (Minutes approved at March 14, 2019 University/Faculty Senate Meeting)
In these minutes: Administrative Response to Senate Actions; Tribute to Deceased Members of the University Community; Minutes for October 4, 2018; Clerk of the Senate Report; Faculty/Senate Consultative Committee Report; President's Report; Questions to the President; Introductions to the Senate; Provost's Report; Questions to the Provost; Administrative Policy: Grading & Transcripts; Administrative Policy: Faculty Development Leaves 

Senate Committee on Information Technologies (SCIT), February 11, 2019
In these minutes: Welcome and Introductions; Data Privacy and Technology; Review of Information Security Policy, Procedures, and Appendices

Senate Committee on Finance and Planning (SCFP), Feburary 19, 2019
In these minutes: UMF Role & UMFREA Role; Joint Planning with University of Minnesota Foundation Real Estate Advisors-East Bank Development Update & University Foundation Property Purchases and Restrictions on Involvement in Capital Investment; Driven Campaign Update; Committee Business: Reflection on Past Meetings and Discussion of Items Needing Further Attention

Faculty Consultative Committee (FCC), February 21, 2019
In these minutes: Committee Business; Conversation with Acting Provost McMaster and Professor Ken Leopold on the Progress of the Liberal Education Redesign Committee; Senate Committee on Committees Review of the FCC; Conversation with President Kaler

Student Senate Consultative Committee (SSCC), March 1, 2019
In these minutes: SSCC Updates; Approval of Docket for March 14 Student Senate Meeting

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

Senate Library Committee (SLC), February 20, 2019
In these minutes: Welcome and Introductions; Overview of Open Access Publishing Fund; Review of Open Access Policy

Civil Service Consultative Committee (CSCC), February 21, 2019
In these minutes: Discussion with President Kaler; ​Committee on Committees Survey Review, Reports; Civil Service Elections Update

Disabilities Issues Committee, February 27, 2019
In these minutes: Draft Administrative Policy: Animals on Campus; Update on Resolution on Education Around Best Practices for Disability Accommodations and Supporting Students with Disabilities; 7.12 Memo

Senate Committee on Student Affairs (SCSA), March 6, 2019
In these minutes: Student Affairs Update from the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD); Student Affairs Update from the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM); Campus Committee on Student Behavior (CCSB) Procedure Amendment; Presentation of a Resolution in Support of Establishing a Policy on Lactation Accommodations at the University

Benefits Advisory Committee (BAC), March 7, 2019
In these minutes: Plan Review - Delta Dental; Employee Comments - Delta Dental; Understanding Fringe Benefit Rates and other Questions; Life/AD&D/Medical Evacuation RFP Results, COBRA RFP Results]

Senate Research Committee (SRC), March 11, 2019
In these minutes: Huawei; Discovery Launchpad Open House; Faculty Workload Survey; National Institutes of Health (NIH) Regarding Foreign Influence; Committee Vote on Letter of Support for MN-GEMS; SRC Advising New President about Issues that are Relevant to the Committee

Student Academic Integrity Committee (SAIC), March 13, 2019
In these minutes: College Review - College of Continuing and Professional Studies (CCAPS); College Review - College of Education and Human Development (CEHD); College Review - School of Public Health (SPH)

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