Faculty Senate Meeting

Part of the Faculty Senate meeting today was spent arguing over wording about when a candidate files for tenure or a promotion. Almost a half hour was spent arguing about the wording in this section of Faculty Senate agenda. After awhile, even the senators involved with the debate got tired of discussing the issue. One senator from COLA called the motion "tiresome" and even the woman leading the meeting said she had never been so relieved to have a motion be moved from the floor. A few minutes later, another senator said the schools and the Senate needed to be more in communication with each other to prevent such mis communications in the future.

The second part of the meeting contained president Stephen Kopp presenting a power point about professor's salaries and how Marshall University compares in relation to other schools with professors salary. He said a pay raise of $1,227 was granted to faculty this year. This raise did not include the medical school because those employees most likely have other income sources. The School of Journalism and Mass Communications was the lowest in payouts given to faculty.