A town hall meeting is scheduled at Fort Hays State University to discuss the “Re-Engineering”  Thursday, March 12 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Memorial Union Ball Room.

According to minutes from a Fort Hays State University Faculty Senate special meeting Oct. 1, 2014, the Re-engineering Task Force was designed to “look at what we do well and consolidate services in order to the meet the needs of our students; both administrative and academic,” in which FHSU President Dr. Mirta Martin asked for “bottom-up information for top-down support.”

According to a handbook published in January and posted online titled “Fort Hays State University, Moving Kansas Forward,” FHSU President Mirta M. Martin “named two re-engineering task forces to examine operations at Fort Hays State. One task force is focusing on the organization and delivery of academic programs, and the other task force is focusing more generally on the overall operations of the University.”

The document also states it “will be necessary to create new positions” and “following an extensive review process, operational changes will be determined in time to issue contracts in June that reflect changes in personnel assignments and duties.”

FHSU’s Director of Budget and Planning Larry Getty chairs the operations task force, and FHSU assistant professor in teacher education Dr. Lorie Cook-Benjamin heads the academic task force.