SENATE NEWS
John LaNear, PhD, JD, Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Find Us in The Commons
Find
your Faculty Senate in The Commons! Contact
your School senators, provide anonymous feedback
to the Faculty Senate, access minutes from Senate
meetings, and other important information about
Senate business. Access our page from the CTL.
From your Personal Commons page click on the CTL
– Faculty Resource Area. Under the "Resources"
dropdown at the top of the page, you will find the
NCU Faculty Senate listed.
Contact Us
Have a concern or question you would like to bring
to the Faculty Senate? NCU faculty can now use
the Faculty Senate Feedback Box for anonymous
contact with the Senate.
2019 Faculty Assembly Follow Up
The annual NCU Faculty Assembly took place during
the Faculty Symposium in July 2019 in Arizona. The
Senate provided the faculty with this prompt for
discussion: "Working at NCU is great,
but it would be
better if..." Faculty responded in writing on notecards
and in group discussion. The main
themes were:
• Faculty workload and evaluation - student load,
expectations for responsiveness
• Benefits/Pay/PTO - paid and sick time, health
insurance, pay
• Research time/support for faculty - more time and
support for research
• Diversity - increase diversity, particularly in
leadership
• Technology - update/improve hardware,
NCUOne
• Collaboration/Networking - increasing faculty-to-
faculty connection, support for new hires
• Curriculum/Teaching - improving curriculum
process, connecting faculty who teach same
courses
UPCOMING
EVENTS:
Annual Faculty Senate Retreat
January 2020
NCU Sails
Next Senate Meeting
January 3, 2020
Zoom
Since the Assembly, the Faculty Senate has been
communicating with University leadership about
faculty input across these areas.
Faculty Senate Input...Working on
Your Behalf
Looking back at 2019, there were two "premium
holidays" where the University covered employees'
premiums. Looking forward into 2020, during the
winter holidays next year, the University will take a
full week off. Additionally, a dedicated space for
adjunct faculty is currently under construction in
The Commons!
