Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting
April 13, 2015 3:30 pm
Members Present: Ahmed, Barut, Bergman, Bryant, Castro, Chang, Decker, Dehner, Horn, Huckstadt, Hull, Jin, Johnson, Klunder, Mason, Moore-Jansen, Mosack, Muthitachareon, Perry, Rokosz, Ross, Shaw, Walker, Yao, Yeager, Yildirim
Members Absent: Adler, Hanawalt, Houseman, Hughes, Hunsicker, Lu, Ramanan, Taher, Thiessen, Trechek, Woods, Yu
Members Excused: Baker, Brooks, Celestin, Close, Rillema
Summary of Action:
1. Accepted Faculty Senate Standing Committee Appointments (see Committee Reports)
2. Endorsed the WSU Tabacco Free Campus Resolution
1. Call to order: President Mehmet Barut called the meeting to order @ 3:30 pm.
2. Informal Statements and Proposals. None.
3. Approval of the Minutes: March 23, 2015. Approved presented.
4. Committee Reports
a. Rules Committee, Peer Moore-Jansen, Chair presented the following nominees for appointment to the
Faculty Senate Standing Committees:
| Academic Affairs | Jeri Carroll |
| Jeff Pulaski | |
| BJ Lehecka | |
| Court of Academic Appeals | Kirsten Johnson -- full |
| Rajiv Bagai -- alternate | |
| Faculty Affairs | Mehmet Barut |
| Lorraine Madway | |
| Faculty Support | Frank Rokosz |
| Travis Bruce | |
| Gerald Scholl | |
| General Education | Cathy Moore-Jansen |
| Mary Koehn | |
| Sue Abdinnour | |
| Rules | Chris Brooks |
| Dharam Chopra | |
| Scholarship & Student Aid | Rich Bomgardner |
| Barbara Morrison | |
| Undergraduate Research | Shonn Haren |
| John Hammond | |
| UAEC | Amy Chesser |
| Katie Mason | |
* Motion to accept list of nominees as presented. Approved.
5. WSU Tobacco Free Campus Resolution: (2nd reading & vote)
* Motion "To support and commend the efforts of Tobacco Free Wu and Me to make Wichita State
University a tobacco-free campus." Approved unanimously.
6. WSU Social Media Implementation Policy: First Reading
* A majority of this document was drafted by Victoria Mosack and Bob Ross on behalf
of the faculty senate. The first paragraph was taken from documents drafted by Emporia
State and KU.
* Concern was expressed with the wording first paragraph about the President or President's
delegate determining whether situation is in compliance with the 1st Amendment. Only
a US court can legally make such a determination.
• Comment made that it would be desirable to include a statement that 'nothing in
this policy will abridge 1st amendment rights'.
• Request that copies of KU and other institutions' documents be posted on Bb for
Faculty Senate review.
7. Updates:
a. Kognito Overview – At-Risk for College students/faculty Training
Maureen Dasey-Morales - Counseling Center.
* WSU has received a 3 year $300,000 suicide prevention grant. It will include gatekeeper
training - looking for warning signs and learning how to report. The training is Avatar
based - computer training that can be taken on demand in 5-7 minute segments. Estimated
total of about 45 minutes.
• They will also be developing a campus crisis protocol
• The initial goal to get 2 people in every department to be trained. The link will
be available to any faculty /staff who want to get trained.
* National average of 10% of students who have seriously considered suicide in the
last 12 months.
* 80% of people who need assistance don't seek help at counseling or medical services.
* National average: 2% of freshmen have attempted suicide.
* It is important to recognize that profiles of suicidal students vary considerably.
8. Adjournment @ 4:10 pm