Chair: Susan Camp

Recorder: Anthony Procopio

Members Absent: C. Mack, W. Silky, S. Fettes, W. Rule

                        The meeting was called to order at 3:18 P.M.

I.    Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved unanimously.

II.    FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp

The Chair started off by welcoming the Assembly. She asked that the Assembly check for errors on the list serve and the attendance sheet.  She then introduced the new FA clerk, Anthony Procopio. If any errors are found, please send corrections to Anthony Procopio, procopio@oswego.edu.

S. Camp reported that elections will begin at this meeting.  She hopes that the Assembly will be able to complete elections by early next meeting and encourages members to bring nominations for next week. She then went on to discuss that she had been asked to consult with FAEB and write a letter regarding President Stanley’s stewardship of the college. Many faculty, including all department chairs are being asked to give feedback to the Chancellor. Please forward any comments to S. Camp by September 14th. She then discussed the Voting Faculty list—consult with your chair regarding the recently distributed DRAFT voting faculty list. Send corrections to susanc@oswego.edu.

S. Camp then went into an explanation that there is a delay in the FA minutes and that we are going to be working hard to get up to date on those.

III.    Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

Personnel Policies Council met and communicated with the provost during the summer to clarify the relationship between DSI and the online faculty data report.  They also met with her to discuss changes in the memo she sends out each August to clarify the criteria for personnel decisions.

Priorities and Planning Council met April 14th and discussed revisions programs in  Educational Administration School Building and District Leadership, Biological Sciences, and Cognitive Sciences. There are no resource implications in any of these. They also reviewed the Program Announcement for a proposed Systems and Software Engineering program. Lastly they reviewed proposals for the Early Childhood Education program. The additional resources needed by this new program will be reallocated from within the School of Education. They also met on May 5th and reviewed the Deans’ and Directors’ requests for faculty lines. They revisited the Early Childhood Program which involves a collaboration with OCC and CCC. On May 18th they met and discussed adjunct salaries and reviewed confidential salary information. Lastly, on September 1st they met and discussed the annual goals for the Academic Affairs Division with Provost Coultrap-McQuin. The council agreed that we will investigate how academic and non-academic lines are decided upon and associated "budget trends" over the past 10 years.

Graduate Council met and approved the following courses proposed by Counseling and Psychological Services:

CPS 590: Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy

CPS 603: Clinical Consultation in Play Therapy

CPS 604: Contemporary Issues in Play Therapy Practice

CPS 692: Advanced Play Therapy: Theory and Practice

Also, the Graduate Council and the Department of Educational Administration are distributing documents and recommending changes in the following programs leading to Certificates of Advanced Study in School Building Leadership and School District Leadership. Lastly the Graduate Council and the Counseling and Psychological Services Department are distributing documents and recommending changes leading to Certificates of Advanced Study in Counseling Services and School Psychology.

Campus Concept Committee—Met twice over the summer, toured Hewitt, Tyler, Lanigan, and the Sun Quad. CCC meets tomorrow to tour Penfield and begin a discussion of the entire academic quad. The “Sciences” program study has begun and the “Education” program study has been awarded to the same architects that designed Poucher (another award winner).

IV.    Elections

Election of Vice Chair of Faculty Assembly

- Joan Carroll was unanimously elected as Faculty Assembly Vice-Chair.

2.   Elections for vacancies on FA Councils and Committees

The following people were elected to FA Councils and Committees:

Personnel Policies Council

Non-FA representative: Claire Putala           

Academic Policies Council

FA representatives: Julieve Jubin, Jim Nichols

Non-FA representatives: Joyce Smith, Tina Pieraccini, Paul Tomascak, Florence Kirk

Priorities and Planning Council

A/S Social & Behavioral: Tom Darvill

School of Business: Larry Maher

            General Education Council

A/S Fine &Performing Arts: Cara Thompson

School of Education: Dennis Parsons

            Information Technology Council

FA representative: Cynthia Clabough

Non-FA representatives: Fritz Messere, Marcia Burrell, Natalie Sturr

            Graduate Council

FA representative: Don Vanouse

Non-FA representatives: Jodi Mullen, Richard Skolnik

            Library Council

Non-FA representatives: Deborah Curry, Al Lackey

            Admissions & Student Services Council

Non-FA representative: Todd Graber

            Undergraduate Curriculum Council

A/S Humanities: Frank Byrne

A/S Natural Science, Math, CS: Anthony Oulette

School of Education: Marcia Burrell

            Academic Outreach Council

FA representative: Bruce Meyer

Non-FA representatives: Jody Fiorini, Kelly Roe, Gay Williams

            Campus Concept Committee

College of Arts & Science: Kelly Roe

School of Education: Matt Spindler

            Auxiliary Services Board

Mary Beth Bell from Penfield Library

Student Association Senate

Mary Beth Bell from Penfield Library

Andrew Westfall from the Registrars Office

V.    Unfinished Business

- Revisions to the Honors Program in Biological Sciences were approved unanimously.

VI.    New Business

- There was no new business.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:52 P.M.