Faculty Senate. Agenda and minutes of the meeting of April 8, 2013. -- Faculty Senate Meetings, 2012-2013, v.26

Agenda: (lnformal statements and proposals) -- (President's report) -- (Role of technology in education / Ravi Pendse) -- (New business): A. Background Fundamentals to be completed in first 24 hours of enrollment - discussion

Minutes: (Informal statements and proposals): Inquiry about the pickets at 21st and Yale protesting WSU hiring contractors that engage in unfair labor practices / Senator DeSilva -- Letter from AAUP (via Brigette Roussel) inviting all faculty to attend an AAUP meeting April 26 / Senator Johnson -- (President's report): A. No KBOR meeting since the last Senate meeting -- B. Strategic Planning Committee -- C. Invitation extended to WSU President Bardo to address the Senate at the April 25 meeting -- D. Other items of business for the April 25 meeting: Second reading of the General Education Committee proposal; discussion and informal vote of the "Sense of the Senate" on changing the requirement for completion of Basic Skills courses from 48 hours to 24 hours; SGA's proposed policy to create a "smoke free" campus -- (New business): "Role of Technology in Higher Education" / Ravi Pendse