The Faculty Senate has called a special meeting to discuss issues with at least two Board of Trustees members after their meeting today.

Faculty Senate chair Anne Zahlan, professor of English, said Trustee Robert Manion, a second trustee and senate members will meet at 2 p.m. in Booth Library Conference Room 4440.

Representatives from the Faculty Senate’s Presidential Search Committee will attend as well.

The issues on the “mini agenda” include establishing better lines of communication between the trustees and the senate and lessons of last year’s presidential search, Zahlan said.

Most of the meeting’s focus will be on the presidential search.

“We want to talk about how the presidential search went and how to organize the next one,” Zahlan said.

Bud Fischer, search committee member and biology professor, said as far as the committee knows, there will be a presidential search next year.

“We can’t talk about specifics … we can only talk about procedures,” Fischer said.

Those procedures include the protocol on picking a president and what the BOT specifically looks for in prospective presidents.

Fischer said the Presidential Search Committee and the BOT will also discuss the possibility of increasing the number of members on the committee and other ways to improve the next search.

The two groups plan to get together in April for further planning.