The Civil Service Senate Communications and Outreach Subcommittee will be hosting a brown bag session for Civil Service employees regarding the different kinds of employment leaves including: FMLA, sick, and vacation. Please join us for this event to learn more about how you can use these different leave benefits.

The session will take place on Tuesday, May 29th, 2018 from 12 PM - 1 PM at the following locations:

Crookston - Selvig Hall Room 308
Duluth - Kirby Plaza Room 173
Twin Cities - Mechanical Engineering Room 1130

Please bring your brown bag lunch. 

If you would like to attend this event, please complete this form to register as seats are limited. 

To join us via WebEx, please click on this link

Check out the Civil Service Blog for previous brown bags. 

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

​​Faculty Consultative Committee (FCC), March 1, 2018
In these minutes: ​​​Conversation with J.D. Burton of Government and Community Relations; Proposed Changes to FCC Structure; Proposed Student Conduct Code Changes Update;President’s and Provost’s Committee on University History Update; Child Development Center Update; ​Morris Campus Tuition Waiver for Native American Students Update; Reports from Senate Committee Chairs Who Sit Ex Officio on FCC; Nominating Subcommittee

Senate Committee on Educational Policy (SCEP), March 21, 2018
In these minutes: ​​​Update on Grading Group Work; Administrative Policy: Grading and Transcripts; Proposal to Amend Twin Cities/Rochester Academic Calendars for Academic Year 19-20, 20-21, and 21-22; S/N Limits

Senate Committee on Information Technologies (SCIT), April 3, 2018
In these minutes: ​​​Administrative Policy Review: Accessibility of Information Technology; Institution-wide data and systems integration toolset; Self-initiated technological innovation and experimentation initiatives; Innovation Hubs; 2-factor authentication strategy

Senate Committee on Educational Policy, April 11, 2018
In these minutes: Liberal Education Redesign Committee Update; Financial Aid; Proposed Updates to the Administrative Policy: Evaluation of Teaching; Proposal to Amend Twin Cities/Rochester Academic Calendars for Academic Year 19-20, 20-21, and 21-22

Benefits Advisory Committee (BAC), April 12, 2018
In these minutes: ​​​Employee Benefits Update; RedBrick Health Plan Review; Employee Comments – RedBrick Health & Overall Wellbeing Program

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

​​Senate Committee on Student Affairs (SCSA), April 4, 2018
In these minutes: ​​​Update on University Food Service (Twin Cities); Discussion on “Swipe Out
Hunger” Program; Duluth Student Affairs Update; Crookston Student Affairs Update; Policy
Review: Resolving Alleged Student Conduct Code Violations

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

Student Senate, April 5, 2018 
In these minutes: ​​​Administrative​ ​Response​ ​to​ ​Senate​ ​Actions; Senate Committee on Student Affairs​ ​Chair​ ​Report​; Assembly/Association​ ​Updates​; Student​ ​Senate/Student​ ​Senate​ ​Consultative​ ​Committee​ ​Chair​ ​Report; Letter in Support of “New Expectations: The 2017-18 Student Representatives to the Board of Regents Report"; Academic Health Center Student Consultative​ ​Committee​ ​Chair​ ​Report​

University/Faculty Senate, April 5, 2018 
In these minutes: ​​​Administrative Response to Senate Actions; Tribute to Deceased Members of the University Community; University Senate Bylaws Amendment - Library Committee Charge; Senate Consultative Committee Report; Discussion of Undergraduate Student Finances; COGS/Student Senate Resolution Measuring and Maintaining Adequate Systemwide Campus Mental Health Services; Immigration Safe Zone Letter; President’s Report

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It has been a busy semester in the University Senate Office, and the committees and senates have been hard at work digging in to a number of issues and hot topics from across the University. Read on and find out what they have been up to!

Recognizing Outstanding Service to University Senate Governance

University Senate Governance Working for U

View from the Inside

The Big Issues

University/Faculty Senate Meeting Recaps

Adjourned

Let’s Not Call it Networking: Building Professional Relationships 

Panelists:

Headshots of Mary Buschette, Director of Alumni & Constituent Relations, CFANS; Jen Guyer-Wood, HHH Director of Career Services; and Ellie McCann, Family Resiliency Extension Educator and Assoc. Ext. Professor