1. Faculty Senate Retreat Fall 2015

2. Welcome Back A moment of gratitude Schedule of Events: 9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcome & Continuing Topics 9:15 am - 10:00 am Institutional History 10:00 am - 10:15 am Board and committee assignments 10:15 am – 11:00 am Discussion of Guidance for Academic Decisions in a Climate of Declining Budgets, AY2016- 2017 11:00 am – 11:45 am Conversation/Q&A with the Provost 11:45 am – 12:00 noon Words from the Chancellor

3. Continuing Topics Board of Regents P10.04.100. Academic Calendar. A common academic calendar for all university campuses will provide for a fall and spring semester of not less than fifteen weeks of instruction, which may include examination days; start and end dates, recesses, and daily schedules, i.e., course blocks, will be common among all campuses. Class schedules must provide for a minimum of 800 minutes of instruction per credit hour. (04-04-14) SAC PROPOSED REVISION P10.04.100. Academic Calendar. A common academic calendar for all university campuses will provide for a fall and spring semester of not less than fifteen weeks of instruction, which may include examination days; start and end dates, recesses, and daily schedules.

4. Continuing Topics BOR Approval of a Resolution regarding Revisions to Regents’ Policy 10.04.040 – General Education Requirements and Faculty Alliance Resolution 2014-03 General Education Requirements Coordination Task Force The UA Faculty Alliance constitutes a UA GER Coordination Task Force consisting of three faculty representatives appointed by the Faculty Senates of UAS, UAA, and UAF (nine members total), and charges it with the following tasks: To propose a shared structure for GERs at the three universities and explain how this articulates with each university’s baccalaureate requirements and program, To propose new language for university regulation, if necessary, to accommodate the proposed common structure, and To recommend new policy for the BOR to consider for GERs. Deadlines: Interim report to the Faculty Alliance in April 2015. Final report November 2015.

5. Continuing Topics Student Success Focus Retention, persistence & completion “University College”? “Arctic Entry”? Office of Academic Affairs Changes to positions: Dean of Graduate School Organization Other topics? Questions?

6. Institutional History Purpose: To demonstrate the range of institutional knowledge and experience comprised in the Faculty Senate To share important lessons from our times and perspectives as faculty at UAA To enhance our discussions of future directions for UAA. Process: 1. Form a “timeline” of when we joined UAA. 2. Group by “eras” 3. Recall important, formative, wonderful, and/or disastrous events from that era—choose 2 to share 4. Each group shares one example. Then each group shares another.