University Council on Gender Equity
December Meeting Agenda
December 8, 2015
Present: Noelle Davis, Emily Elliott, Dana Hart, Kurt Keppler, Lynn Livingston, Mandi Lopez,
Kenya Messer, Tammy Millican, Brigette Monistere, Summer Steib, Dereck Rovaris, Brenton
Sumler
1. Approved November minutes
2. Leadership Panels
a. Dec. 9th 11:30-1:00 in the Holliday Forum of the Journalism Building
Panel: Drs. Fuentes-Martin, Haynie, Masse, Messer, and Peterson
Moderated by Summer Steib
Opening remarks by Emily Elliott
Closing remarks by Derek Rovaris
Working with Strategic Communications to get media presence
b. February will be a Women of Color Leadership Panel
February 16th at Hill Memorial Library from 11:30-1:00
Confirmed Panelists: Nikki Fargus, Yvette Marsh, Saundra McGuire, Pallavi Rastogi
3. Updates on the LSU Child Care Center and a potential public/private partnership
a. Group met in November; it was a very positive meeting
Group will meet again in December
Things are continuing as normal in the Center for now
4. Updates on the efforts of the Staff Senate regarding the policies for maternity leave, flex
time, and crisis leave
a. Updates from Jennifer Normand in HR:
i. State law would have to be changed for LSU to change sick leave policies;
they have tried and been unsuccessful in the past
ii. Crisis leave is annual leave; not everyone automatically qualifies
iii. A committee looks over all requests using proper medical information on
a first-come-first-served basis
iv. A person must be out of work for at least 10 days but no more than 12
weeks (or 240 hours) to qualify for crisis leave
v. Hours donated to crisis leave are donated to a pool, not an individual
person, and are taken in as dollar amounts
vi. We currently have ample time in the pool – This fiscal year $30,000 was
donated and only $21,000 used.
5. Updates from subcommittees
b. Research peer institutions- Lynn Livingston, Mandi Lopez, Dana Hart, Kristine
DeLong
i. Specific colleges (Colleges of Science and Human Sciences and Education)
will be used as the first part of the process as a pilot
ii. Data will be put together for those colleges, to understand which
variables we need
iii. That data will be used as a model to then examine the University as a
whole
c. Wage gap education- Tammy Millican, Petra Robinson, Christine Corcos, Brenton
Sumler
i. Change name to Outreach and Communications
ii. Will help with the creation of the new UCGE website
d. Women in Leadership- Emily Frank, Sarah Ferstel, Summer Steib
6. Announcements:
a. Kenya
i. Mark Your Calendars – National Diversity Council’s Baton Rouge Women
in Leadership Forum (April 19th, 8:00-1:00)
ii. The campus tour now includes information on the Women’s Center and
African American Cultural Center as it passes the Barnes & Noble
Bookstore.
b. Summer
i. Mark Your Calendars – Esprit de Femme (March 18th, 8:00-10:00am at
Boudreaux’s)
ii. On February 19th the MLK speaker will be Alecia Garza, a founder of Black
Lives Matter
7. Next Meeting: TBD, a Doodle Poll with possible dates will go out soon