Chair: S. Camp

Recorder: J. Godkin

Members Absent: D. King, L. Fuller, W. Silky, J. Nichols, S. Fettes, R. Card, W. Rule,            K. Kurst-Swanger, I. Farrell, S. Robinson, K. Beck,

                        The meeting was called to order at 3:07 PM.

I.   Approval of Agenda

With the addition of the approval of minutes from October 17, 2005, the agenda was approved unanimously.

II.  Approval of Minutes

The minutes of October 17, 2005 were approved unanimously.

III.   FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp

The Chair reported that L. Peterson and she attended the University Faculty Senate Winter Plenary at Farmingdale on January 27-28.  Some items discussed were the new Chancellor, Vice Admiral John Ryan, and the open meeting law along with continued discussions of library funding, strengthened campus-based assessment costs, and budget requests.  Senator Peterson will make a detailed report at the General Faculty Meeting following this meeting.

S. Camp announced that the Oswego State Task Force on Academic Administrative Officer Review convenes Friday, February 10.  Chancellor Ryan plans to talk with Presidents regarding 360 review of administrators.  Also, the Chair reported that she invited all committee chairs (Committee on Committee) to report to the Assembly throughout this semester, which will begin at the next Faculty Assembly meeting.

IV.   Reports of Councils, Committees, and Task Forces

Academic Policies Council met on December 2nd, 2005 and unanimously approved the new Creative Arts Therapy minor pending the inclusion of the third paragraph of the proposal in the catalog copy and the revisions to the French and German majors pending minor modifications to the catalog copy.  They met again on December 9th and unanimously approved the catalog copy for Adolescence and TESOL programs, concentration revisions for Childhood and Adolescent programs, and German and French minors.  APC gave an informational report from that meeting stating that the Math Departments request for the catalog wording concerning a C- or better grade has been approved for 200 level math courses for Math majors.  APC met again on February 3, 2006 and gave an informational report stating that the program announcement for Software Engineering as put forward by the Computer Science Department has been approved.  APC noted that the approval of the program announcement should be understood as being separate from any engineering programs that might come forward in the future.   

General Education Council briefly discussed the draft for Strengthened Campus Based Assessment and asked the Assembly to waive the two week rule to vote on this draft later in the meeting, which passed unanimously. 

Graduate Council met February 3, 2006 and approved the following courses:

CSC 516         Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

CSC 550         Computational Linguistics

CSC 554         Systems Simulation

CSC 566         Cognitive Science

CSC 570         Computer Graphics

CSC 586         Topics in Artificial Intelligence

Undergraduate Curriculum Council met December 9, 2005 and February 1, 2006.  (see attached)

Campus Concept Committee will meet Feb 9 and hear from Julie Pretzat, Mark Cole and Mary Avrakotos regarding performance space.  CCC reported to the entire community last fall via a paper update.

Conflict of Interest and Professional Ethics Task Force met in December and assigned tasks, looked at existing by-laws, and elected S. Abraham as Chair. 

V.    Elections for Vacancies on FA Councils

General Education Council

Social and Behavioral Sciences: L. Bacher

VI.    Unfinished Business

1. Strengthened Campus-Based Assessment proposal passed unanimously. 

VII.  New Business

There was no new business.  

The meeting was adjourned at 3:48 PM.

Undergraduate Curriculum Council

On December 9, 2005, the UCC reviewed 39 course proposals.  We approved 13 courses; tabled 1 (awaiting UCC member review); and made arrangements for UCC members to contact department chairs to check on the progress of the remaining 25 course proposals for which we needed more information.

New Courses Approved by UCC 12/09/05 (total 10)

Ant 383 Disease and Human Behavior

Ant 454 Advanced Forensic Anthropology

Bio 207 Understanding Evolution

Brc 465 Dramatic Video Production

Edu 430 Professionalism & Social Justice Seminar

Jlm 498 Journalism Seminar

Jlm 209 Introduction to Newswriting/Reporting

Jlm 09 Advanced Newswriting/Reporting

Max105 Elements of Mathematics for Prospective Teachers

Soc 373 Gangs in American Society

Existing Course Updates/changes Approved on 12/09/05 (total 3)

ART 430: Ceramics III (second catalog description change this semester)

ART 431: Ceramics IV (second catalog description change this semester)

Brc 370 Comparative Studies in World Broadcasting

On February 1, 2006, the UCC reviewed 29 course proposals.  We approved 12 courses, and made arrangements or UCC members to contact department chairs to check on the progress of the remaining 17 course proposals for which we needed more information.

New Courses Approved by UCC on 2/06/06 (total 5)

BIO 120 Molecular and Cellular Foundations

BIO 429 Molecular Biology

ENG 357 Black Women Writers

MGT 350 Entrepreneurship

ZOO 360 Animal Physiology

Existing Course Updates/Changes Approved by UCC on 02/01/06 (total 7)

ACC 330 Federal and Tax Accounting I

ACC 431 Federal and Tax Accounting II

BIO 320 Introductory Ecology

BIO 425 Evolution

BIO 440 Developmental Plant Biology

HRM 462 Employment Law

MAT 102* Foundation of Mathematics in the Real World

*We discovered that the changes/update for Mat 102 that had been proposed, have already been included in the current catalog.  This course had been returned for minor revisions in 11/04.  We can only assume that the revisions were completed and re-submitted during Spring 2005; and that the former UCC chair approved the course and notified the Catalog Editor.  However, the course had not been reported toe Faculty Assembly. 

We are awaiting information for 17 remaining courses. 

UCC Web Site: The spread sheet for all courses (including course updates and new courses) reviewed by UCC in 2005-2006 is available on the UCC web site: www.oswego.edu/ucc

Please note:  The process for submitting course outlines has been modified.  There is no longer any need to download a form from the web site to submit courses.  Instead, go to the UCC web site directly into the designated fields on the web site.

Correction: On November14, 2005 we reported to Faculty Assembly that UCC had approved Phl 498, Capstone Seminar in Philosophy (approved 11.4.05).  We should have reported this as Phl 497, with the same title.  All parties across campus were notified of this error on 12/19/05.

Meetings for Spring 2006- Our meetings will occur on alternate Wednesdays, 1:45-3:15 pm, in Wilbur Hall on the following dates: Feb 15; March1 and 22; April 5 and 19; and May 3, 2006.

UCC Visitor.  UCC invited a representative form the Library to attend our meetings as a visitor for the Spring 2006 semester.  Mary Loe has been appointed to attend our spring semester meetings.