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Agenda for CID Meeting May 20, 2020 3:30-4:30 via Lamar.adobeconnect.com/civilengineering/

Attendees: Ken Evans, Brenda Nichols, Jeremy Alltop, Liv Haselbach, Donna Meeks, Dan Chilek, Kabir Sen, Golden Wright, Brian Shook, Johnny OConnor, Phil Cole, Diane Clark, James Slaydon, Jeremy Alm, Jill Killough, Sunny Lei, Kakoli B, Natalie Tindall, Randall Terry, Monica Harn, Jim Sanderson.

1. Discussion on Department Annual Report: Due June 22 from Chairs to Deans. Liv to see if we can get a more comprehensive grant spreadsheet to the chairs. Explanation of purpose is to find out what we are doing in the departments and what we plan to do to improve (game plan).
2. The President said that for the next biennium he will be pitching too special items. As far as budgets go, the letter from the Chancellor indicates some more cuts soon.
3. Discussion on other COVID19 issues.

• Still waiting for what the State decides.
• There were some questions about what type of section for online classes that students are enrolling in and Dr. Nichols will look into that.
• The no testing admissions may go on for awhile, although some testing centers (LIT and LU Port Arthur) are opening some soon.
• It was acknowledged that the restructuring and layoffs make people nervous, but have to consider HR issues when talking about it. Currently most are administrative related.
• The President stated that the Institutional Goals remain, to make LU the best it can be.
• In order to work on various issues the President has convened several ad hoc committees focusing on things that are arising or may be pertinent for the fall. The first reports from the groups are due June 8^th to the upper administration:

- Building Preparations (David Martin lead)

- Classroom Scheduling and Preparations (Lynn Maurer lead)

- Communication (Kate Downing lead)

- Access controls/health safety (Hector Flores lead)

- Testing/Contact Tracing (Bert Wagner lead)

- Virtual Town Halls (Diann Brodnax and Juan Zabala leads)

- Teaching and Technology (Amy Smith et al. leads)

- Emergency Plan Review to connect the dots of the above etc. (Jeremy Alltop lead)

4. Agreed to meet in June and then decide if meet in July.
5. Work on 2020/2021 committee liaison assignments in August.

Executive Committee 2020/2021

Liv Haselbach         M. Diane Clark Phil Cole                    James Slaydon                      Dan Chilek

Tentative Future CID Meetings and Possible Topics

CC: Brenda Nichols, Ken Evans, Amy Troha, Jeremy Alltop

CID Liaison Assignments to Various University Standing Committees and Councils

2. Academic Information Technology Committee: Debbie Troxclair?? (2018/2019) CID representative
3. Athletic Council: Hsing-wei Chu?? (2019/2020) Appointed by President of º£½ÇÉçÇø
4. Budget Development Committee: Liv Haselbach (2020/2021) Representative of CID President
5. Distance Education Committee: Liv Haselbach?? Nominated by CID President
6. Diversity, Equity, Intercultural Relations Plan /Advise Com: Liv Haselbach?? CID representative
7. Faculty Performance Evaluation/Merit Salary Increase Appeals Committee: Liv Haselbach CID Pres
8. Faculty Promotion Review Committee: Hsing-wei Chu?? (2019/2020) CID representative
9. Honors Council: ???? CID representative
10. Judge Joe J. Fisher Distinguished Lecture Series Committee: Mark Mengerink (2019/2020) CID rep
11. Records Management Committee: ??? Representative of CID President or CID President
12. Strategic Plan Advisory Council: Liv Haselbach (2020/2021) CID President
13. University Faculty Handbook Advisory Committee: Jeremy Alm (2019/2020) CID representative
14. University Information Technology Steering Committee: ??? Appointed by President of Lamar Univ.
15. University Undergraduate Curriculum Council: Stefan Andrei (2019/2020) CID representative