University Council Minutes
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
233 SUB
Kenning Arlistsch | David Court | Kate Grimes | Karlene Hoo | Helen Melland | Nicol Rae |
Kregg Aytes | Dennis Defa | Brett Gunnink | Chris Kearns | Chrris Murray | Leslie Taylor |
Charles Boyer | Tracy Ellig | Maggie Hammett | Greg Kegel | Kim Obbink | Susan Wolff |
Matt Caires | Chris Fastnow | Robert Hawks | Ilse-Mari Lee | Mark Nook | |
Kari Cargill | Peter Fields |
Deborah Haynes (for Lynda Ransdell) |
Terry Leist | Renee Reijo Pera | |
Nancy Cornwell | Destini French | Bob Hietala | Shelley McKamey | Martha Potvin |
- Call to Order
Provost Martha Potvin- Provost Martha Potvin called the meeting to order at 8:30 AM.
- Approval of Minutes for January 14th, 2015
- Terry Leist moved to approve the minutes for February 4th, 2015, and Susan Wolff seconded the motion. The minutes were approved unanimously.
- University Wide Information/ Announcements
- Provost Potvin thanked Chancellor Greg Kegel for bringing Ginger Doodles to the meeting. They are a specialty of the chef at MSU Northern and the recipe is available on the back of MSUN's Chancellor's Report, which was handed out during the meeting.
- Old Items
- Student Conduct Code (Comment period will be extended until March 1st, and vote on
the adoption of the policy will take place at the March University Council Meeting)
Matt Caires, Dean of Students
Leslie Taylor, Legal Counsel- Leslie Taylor explained that there were many comments made to the Student Conduct Code policy, thus it will be posted for an additional month for students to continue to comment. It will be voted on at the March 4th meeting.
- Student Conduct Code (Comment period will be extended until March 1st, and vote on
the adoption of the policy will take place at the March University Council Meeting)
- Informational Items
- Strategic Plan: Discovery
Chris Fastnow, Director, Office of Planning & Analysis- Chris Fastnow provided an update on the Discovery section of MSU's Strategic Plan. Chris spoke to a chart of a data illustrating the progress.
- Strategic Plan: Discovery
- Updates
- Members of University Council provided brief updates about their departments.
- Public Comment
- No public comment was offered.