Division of Student Affairs
Executive Policy 15 Working Group
Meeting Minutes
December 04, 2018
Attendees: Kim Anderson, Kathy MacKay, Brandon Chapman, Candace Chappelle, Judith McDonald, Sophia Gaither, Kenitra Keeney, Luci Loera, Anne McCoy
By Phone: James Mohr
Brandon opened the meeting, welcomed everyone and introduced the proposed template for Working Group reports. Heather will provide a copy of the template to the group.
Discussion
- Overview of previous meeting
- Recap of Chairs & Admin meeting and upcoming changes for the working groups
- All working groups will examine charges and see what is still applicable and what may need to be modified
- Objectives – Review EP 15 language
- Group is not re-writing, just collecting feedback and OEO will then look into the feedback and work with the AGO of adjustments are needed.
- Update from the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights – Proposed regulation under Title IX is in the comment period until the end of December
- May impact WSU policy and/or reporting requirements
- Certain parts of WSU policy may need to be altered based on OCR final ruling
- Comments/feedback on EP 15 from Working Group are due to Kim on December 12
- Policy and free speech training
- Definition of free speech and types of protections for free speech
- Potentially forming another small subgroup or group outside of the working group with a more narrow focus and specific objective
- Training Videos
- These would supplement the policy and provide examples
- Outline provided by Brandon is intended to elicit feedback on content of videos, set up, and provide a different way of approaching scenarios
- EP 15 policy revisions
- What is the vision for policy revisions – definitions and resources included?
- Group will focus on recommendations then on creation of supplemental documents/trainings
- Examples should include employee examples (faculty and staff) as well, maybe with different training for students vs faculty & staff
- Definition of free speech and types of protections for free speech
Meetings and Membership
- Chairs and Co-Chairs to meet once a month, a doodle poll will go out
- EP 15 Working Group to meet once a month, a doodle poll will go out
- Meeting minutes will be sent to Sharae Randall
- Kathy MacKay last day will be December 19
- SharePoint – has been established access, Heather will provide the link