OPEN FORUM Faculty Senate President Rocky Dailey told Students’Association how Faculty Senate works and issues the body has been discussing this year at Monday night’s SA meeting. Faculty senators are elected, and any full-time faculty member that has no administrative role or emeritus status can serve on the body, Dailey said. Term limits are three years long. Dailey said one of the most discussed topics by Faculty Senate this year has been post-tenure review. The South Dakota Board of Regents had a first reading of a proposed policy establishing a process for post-tenure review of faculty at the Oct. 2 meeting. Senators have been talking with the Board of Regents and other faculty senates throughout the regental system, Dailey said. “We don’t just get tenure and stop working,” Dailey said. “We still have annual reviews, we still have expectations. We can still be let go for cause.” Freedom of expression has also been a hot topic within Faculty Senate, Dailey said. “We understand that we have to have difficult discussions on difficult things. We understand it’s not our job to try to persuade somebody one way or the other,” Dailey said. “I think there’s an understanding of that.” This comes after a University of South Dakota professor was fired and has since been reinstated for a post made on social media in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assasination. David Overby, vice president for technology and security, also spoke to senators during open forum. Overby backed the response from the SDSU Police Department to Saturday’s campus-wide alert with the title “shots fired” on campus. You can read more about this on page A4. IN OTHER BUSINESS Students’ Association voted 23-0-1 to amend Article VI of its bylaws “to clarify and standardize financial procedures” within SA. The amendment to the bylaws aimed to clear up any confusing language, SA Finance Chair, Dominic Delahoyde, said. Nathan Bylander joined for his first meeting as SA’s third adviser. Bylander is the program director for TRIO at SDSU. Senate president Sophie Spier said the executive socials event will be moved to Hobo Day Gallery. It was previously planned to be in the Volstorff Ballroom. The event will be this Saturday, Nov. 22 from 10: 30 a. m. to Noon. You can email SDSU. SAChiefofStaff@sdstate. edu to RSVP for your club. TOPICS FOR FUTURE DISCUSSION Parking and Card Services told Spier that parking service employees have been getting verbally abused unfair treatment. “They’re receiving a lot of bad treatment to their enforcement officers bad treatment being inappropriate. Not just a Yik Yak post,” Spier said. “Bad treatment.” “I personally don’t think that that is acceptable,” Spier added. Parking Services is looking at new ways to get student feedback on how to improve parking issues, such as by creating a student parking committee to bring student perspectives. There will be no SA meeting next Monday, Nov. 24.
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Update from faculty senate
