Institutional Climate Committee

Description

The purpose of the ICC is to heighten awareness of campus community members' perceptions and attitudes about KU; open up communication concerning perceptions and attitudes about KU; recommend university policies, procedures, and practices that promote more positive stakeholder perceptions and attitudes about KU; encourage teaching, research, and programs that enhance KU's climate of engagement, and transform KU into a more welcoming and inclusive place to live, work, and learn. The ICC shall serve as a consulting team for stakeholder concerns about climate that arise from the survey and from other sources, and they shall present the results of their inquiry in open forums and in campus community reports and updates. Meetings: monthly. Terms: three years. Appointees:  8 of the 17 members.

• Membership

  Name	Term Expires
  Margaret Bestwick (At-Large Faculty Member Representative) **	8/2022
  TBD (At-Large Minority Faculty Member Representative)**	8/2021
  Karen Stanford (At-Large Professional Staff Manager Representative)**	8/2021
  Lisa Grabowski (At-Large Minority Professional Staff Manager Representative)**	8/2022
  Shiyaamsundar Thiruvadi (Faculty Member from the College of Business Representative)**	8/2021
  Christopher Weiler, Co-Chair (Faculty Member from the College of Education Representative)**	8/2022
  Yoon Mi Kim (Faculty Member from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Representative)**	8/2020
  Joseph Harasta (Faculty Member from the College of Visual & Performing Arts Representative)**	8/2020
  Erin Kraal (Senate Representative)	8/2022
  Jacqueline Fox (Management/Administration Representative)*	*
  Christine Price (Women's Center OR Commission on the Status of Women Representative)*	*
  Jerry Schearer (LGBTQ Resource Center OR Commission on Human Diversity Representative)*	*
  Tabetha Bernstein-Danis, Co-Chair (APSCUF Representative)^	8/2021
  Mary Bononno (AFSCME Representative)^	8/2022
  Fran Cortez Funk (SUA/SCUPA Representative)^	8/2019
  TBD (Undergraduate Student Representative) SGB Appointed	8/2020
  TBD (Graduate Student Representative) Graduate Dean appointed	8/2020

  * Ex Officio
  ** Appointed by Committee on Committees
  ^ Appointed by Union

  Union Committee Representative: To be considered for a committee union position please contact a union representative.

• Mission & Bylaws

  Institutional Climate Committee Mission & Bylaws

• Meeting TImes

  All ICC Meetings, unless otherwise stated will be held the third Tuesday of each month

  (according to ICC Bylaws) in Beekey 121 (conference room) on the following dates:
  
  

  Fall 2019	Spring 2020
  September 17, 2019	February 18, 2020
  October 15, 2019	March 17, 2020
  November 19, 2019	April 21, 2020

  
  Please remember ICC's attendance requirements from our Bylaws:  Each member may miss up to one meeting per semester. Members shall find a substitute if unable to attend.  After the second unexcused missed meeting without substitute, the committee will contact the source of appointment to find a replacement.

• Agenda & Minutes

  Agenda & Minute information are available by contacting the Senate office.

For more information please contact:

University Senate

Email: senate@kutztown.edu

Phone: 610.683.4675