Chair: Susan Camp

Recorder: Anthony Procopio

Members Absent: J. Jubin, J.K. Smith, W. Silky, T. Delaney, S. Ressing

                        The meeting was called to order at 3:10 P.M.

I.    Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved unanimously with the move of the General Education proposal to first under unfinished business.

II.    FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp

Dr. Camp began by welcoming everyone again. She then went on to discuss items from last week. She welcomed the new representatives—please contact the departmental rep that you replaced to obtain any current proposals or info for future meetings. Gave new clerk information—Anthony Procopio (procopio@oswego.edu). Any corrections to membership, councils, reports should go to Anthony in both e- and hard copy. So that the minutes accurately reflect our meetings, please speak loudly and clearly.  Feel free to stand to speak if your voice does not carry.

She then discussed Review of Dean Varhus.  A review committee will be elected that mirrors a Dean of Arts and Sciences Search Committee.  (“The search committee for the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences shall consist of one member from each of the following subdivisions:* (1) Humanities; (2) Fine Arts and Library; (3) Social and Behavioral Sciences; (4) Natural Sciences; (5) Professional Staff (NTP); (6) School of Business or School of Education voting faculty; and (7) one student member. The voting faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences shall elect these individuals, and the Student Association shall select the student member.”).  A request for nominations will go out soon.

SPAB—be prepared to be a part of at least one focus group for the SPAB process.

Camp will be working with PPC to develop the criteria for an Award for Service-modeled after the President’s award for Scholarly and Creative Activity and the award for Teaching Excellence.

College Hour begins soon.  A call will be coming for programs, ideas, collaborations etc.  Spring 2007, Wednesday, 12:40-1:35 p.m. will be college hour, with M&F being a time for meetings or other activities.

She also announced that “SUNY Oswego has been invited by the Center for Academic Integrity, which has its home in the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, and by Professor Donald McCabe of Rutgers University to take part in a survey to get the views of faculty about the current state of academic integrity at the colleges and universities in our nation.”  Dr. David Bozak is responsible for coordinating the survey on our campus. The survey can be found at http://integrity.rutgers.edu/oswegofac.asp and is self-explanatory.

Lastly she reported that all council reports and all proposals should come both in hard copy and digital (for easy distribution).

III.    Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

Personnel Policies Council called for nominations for both the School of Business dean search committee and the College of Arts and Sciences Dean review committee.

Campus Concept Committee met on September 12 and toured 2/3rds of Penfield and will meet again on Sept 27 to complete tour and begin discussion of Academic Quad.

Writing Across the Curriculum Task Force is meeting on Wednesday to take a look at the previous WAC coordinator and data from the past 5 or 6 years.

IV.    Elections

Elections for vacancies on FA Councils and Committees

The following people were elected to FA Councils and Committees:

            Information Technology Council

Non-FA representative: Gary Klatsky

            Graduate Council

FA representative: Chris Mack

            Admissions & Student Services Council

Non-FA representative: Jessica Hester

            Undergraduate Curriculum Council

A/S Social and Behavioral: Karen Wolford

V.    Unfinished Business

- The General Education Council proposal to infuse critical thinking was postponed until the

November 6^th meeting. The vote to postpone was 37-0.

- The Amendment to Faculty Bylaws, Article XII Section 5 failed 10-19.

- The amendment to Faculty Bylaws, Article XXIV Section 1 passed 35-1.

VI.    New Business

- There was no new business.