Chair-Elect Jimmi Rushing thanked Senators John Moore and Bonnie Todd for volunteering as marshals for the May commencement. Rushing also announced that there is record management information regarding university achives and records retention management through the East Texas Research Center. Found in the library's web pages are information about what is of interest to the archives and what is requested by new records retention guidelines issued by the state. McDonald recognized Shunda Allen and Laura Jennings for their work as student assistants for the Faculty Senate. Students can go through Ralph Busby's office to pre-register without attending the orientations.
Numbers are down for transfer student orientation.
They can register early by seeing an advisor, however, transfer orientation is still important. Concerns were voiced to Ashley on losing good students. Another senator noted that transfer students have more need to be advised, so transfer orientation is useful. Dr. Ashley also discussed the new math placement test. Ashley noted that there was a high failure rate in mathematics by freshmen.