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Chair: Susan Camp
Recorder: Anthony Procopio
Members Absent: Y. Petrella, J. Jubin, T. Ramalho, W. Silky, M.
Curtin, C. Mack, L. Hernandez, W. Rule, D. Tascarela, S.Ressing
The meeting was called to order at 3:07
P.M.
I. Approval of Agenda
The agenda was approved unanimously.
II. FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp
S. Camp welcomed everyone back from Spring Break. She then spoke about
Student Graduation Outcomes—we now have an eight-page, single spaced list of
suggested outcomes. A group of mostly faculty will meet to analyze the
suggestions and rework into 8-10 SUNY Oswego Graduation Outcomes for your
review and recommendation. If anyone else would like to join this group, let me
know SOON. Lastly she noted that the Conflict of Interest policy would be
discussed today.
III. Reports of Councils, Committees and Task
Forces
General Education Council passed the following motion at
its 26 March 2007 meeting:
The General Education Council proposes that the Intellectual Issues requirement
be reduced to one three-credit course that must be taken outside a student’s
first major. Students whose first major is interdisciplinary must take a course
with a prefix other than that major.
Information Technology met on March 9th.
Discussion took place regarding the technology usage and needs of faculty,
staff, and students. Discussion also took place regarding the use of email as
an official mode of communication. SCAP 2006/2007 allocations approved. The
Committee endorsed making a request to waive of the two-week rule in Faculty
Assembly in order to get the equipment ordered and in before summer break.
Library Council met on March 15th and discussed
the following:
1. Provost's library renovation committee has met twice this semester. They
will be formulating a needs statement regarding library renovations for the
architects. This list will be give to the campus community for feedback
before it goes to the architects.
There is cash allocated for the project to begin (roughly 3 million). The
money will be used to start the process, (75,000 for the architects, 50,000 for
the engineers) and then the rest will be reserved to start the process of
renovation. Successes from this will be used to campaign for additional
funding. The goal is to have a list of needs drafted by April, and submit to
the Architects in the fall.
2. We also discussed the assessment of Info Literacy as outlined by Jim
Nichols. It was suggested that we assess the actual literacy of our
students at present. How to address web searches and their
validity. The Library can lecture to classes on this matter.
The information literacy needs of faculty was also discussed. Faculty may
need assistance to meet the new paradigm of information access that engage
students, such as google, utube, etc. It might be helpful if we develop
sometime of show and tell forum on new technology to aid us in understanding
the technological connections of our students.
It was proposed that we poll the campus for software features that can help
us all be better at our jobs. Features such as track changes in Word,
Power Point, Excel, PDF documents, memory management, and things like platform
compatibility and how to resize images. Use of the method created for the
Internal Control Survey was mentioned as an effective way to survey faculty and
staff. The library also sees the need for a software support specialist for the
future info commons in the library.
Graduate Council met on Friday March 16th and
the following new courses were approved:
HIS 545 The Early Republic: US 1789 – 1848
LIT 519 Literacy Coaching
EDU 504 Principles of Professional Development
EDU 508 Research Methods for Classroom Practitioners
EDU 520 Research Writing, Dissemination for Professional Development
The following courses in HCI were approved with minor editorial changes:
HCI 520 Graphic User Interfaces
HCI 550 Human Computer Interface Project I
HCI 551 Human Computer Interface Project II
The Graduate Council also approved the use of the “IP” grade in Graduate
Courses in which the scheduled work extends beyond a single semester.
“A mark
of IP (in process or progress) may be submitted by an instructor for students
enrolled in thesis courses, research projects, courses in which the scheduled
work extends beyond a single semester, and for courses in which a form of
evaluation from off-campus is mission (e.g. GST courses, field placements or
departmental internships). A mark of IP may be carried on a student’s
transcript for a maximum of 6 semesters (without requesting extension). At the
end of the sixth semester, a grade must be submitted, or the IP automatically
becomes an E grade unless an extension is requested by the
instructor.”
In addition, the “I” grade description was reviewed. Council approved it now
reading, “Incomplete indicates that the student has not completed all of the
course requirements for reasons beyond the student’s control. Summer sessions
students must remove incomplete grades before the end of the sixth week of the
fall semester. Incomplete grades taken in the regular semester must be removed
before the sixth week of the next semester. Individual time limits should be
established by the instructor for the exceptions and the Registrar’s Office
should be notified. Any incomplete grade, not removed within the stated time
limit, will become an “E” grade.” The sentence “Certain graduate courses
involving independent research are exceptions to this regulation.” was
deleted.
Undergraduate Curriculum Council met:
Meeting on March 7, 2007: UCC met and reviewed 2 new
course proposals and the status of 3 more tabled courses. Yet again, the tabled
courses remained so pending requested clarification and revisions. UCC approved
the following new courses:
New Courses (total 2):
HIS 345 – The Early Republic: U.S. 1789 – 1848
HIS 373 – History of Mexico
Campus Concept Committee met March 13 hear about a “contact
center” for the basement of Hewitt (FA will hear about the “contact center” at
our next meeting) and to focus on the Hewitt programming concept along with how
it will relate to the rest of the West Academic Quad. Focus groups of “West
End” faculty will be conducted later this spring. The next meeting is April
3.
IV. Elections
Priorities & Planning Council Humanities Rep (2005 – 2007)
- Bennet J Schaber was nominated unanimously.
V. Unfinished Business
Public Justice Minor with the taking out of 2C Cognate
Requirements and the fix of the title of PBJ
102 to Intro to Human Services passed:
33 – 0.
The SCAP proposal was moved to unfinished business (waiving the 2 week
rule): 31 – 0.
The SCAP proposal passed: 32 – 0.
The Conflict Of Interest Policy was postponed due to time limitations.
VI. New Business
- No new business
The meeting was adjourned at 3:54
P.M.
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