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Chair: Dr. Susan Camp
Recorder: Sarah Lewis
Members
Absent: Anthropology Department, J. Fiorini, T. Ramalho, Educational
Administration Department, R. O’Connor, S. Abraham, W. Opello, C. Hockey
The
meeting was called to order at 3:08 PM.
I.
Approval of Agenda
The agenda was
approved as distributed.
II.
Approval of September 14th, 2009 and September 21st,
2009 Minutes
Both sets of minutes
were approved as distributed.
III.
FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp
The Chair began her report by discussing
Administrative evaluations.
Beginning in their 5th year, the Deans, the Provost, and the
Library Director are all eligible for the Review of Academic Administrative
Officers Program. Currently, those
that are eligible for the Review of Academic Administrative Officers Program
are Provost Coultrap-McQuin, Dean Markert, Director Bell and Dean
Petrella. She continued to say
that in order for this process to begin, the Assembly needed to identify and
elect a committee for each evaluation.
She also wanted to establish how many evaluations should be attempted
this year, and there was a decision among the Assembly that Director Bell would
be the first one to be evaluated.
She then reported that next meeting the 7
architects that are working on the Oswego Master Plan will be doing a
presentation to the Assembly, and that they will be able to answer any of the
questions that you might have about the Master Plan.
Lastly she reported that the Provost will be
reporting at the next meeting and she asked the Assembly to send her any
questions that you would like the Provost to address.
IV.
Reports of Councils, Committees, and Task Forces
- · Personnel
Policies
- · Academic
Policies Council
In special cases in which a
student’s meeting the All-College Requirement of “1/2 the major at Oswego”
would result in unnecessary re-taking of courses or other hardships (in the
judgment of the Advisor), departments may submit a program deviation requesting
up to nine (9) credit hours to the appropriate Dean.
o A.A.
is using reserves, frictional savings, and reallocation of a portion of OTPS
monies to reserves in order to ameliorate the harm caused by recent cuts in
SUNY funding.
o Faculty
and staff lines remain intact
o Small
classes have not been reduced
o Temp
service is being covered with frictional savings
o New
sabbaticals had been suspended.
o SCAP,
AER and computer replacements have been protected.
o Funding
strategies designed to foster institutional fiscal independence and
self-determination were highlighted (e.g., Metro Center, IFR and increased
emphasis on part-tine, on-line, international and graduate programs.
The Provost circulated a list of AA
hiring requests, and the Deans of the four A.A. divisions provided their
rationales for each. Al Stamm was then unanimously elected to serve as
chairperson of the council and he appointed Darvill as notetaker. The next
meeting of the Priorities and Planning Council will take place at 3:00 on
Friday, October 9 in Rm. 302 Poucher.
- · General
Education The General Education Council
approved revision of Intellectual Issues prerequisite to “Junior standing” thus
removing both “completion of basic skills, knowledge foundations” and “or
permission of instructor.” The
General Education Council approved Music Department revised writing plans,
replacing MUS112 and MUS 113 for MUS110, MUS230, MUS231, MUS240. The Music
department requested that MUS110 be removed because of its increased
enrollment; MUS 112 and MUS113 because recent revisions have focused less
attention on writing. The council
also fielded various queries on current round of assessment for Intellectual
Issues.
- · Information
Technology Council
o Email
Change Announcement - The project to
change faculty/staff email addresses was successful. Having the ability to adjust the email address was very
much appreciated by faculty and staff. The following items were discussed:
§ The
primary goal of distinguishing faculty/staff email addresses from student email
addresses has been met
§ Changing
student email addresses is being put on hold – both because our goal of
distinguishing addresses has been met, and because of other possible changes in
email in the near future.
§ Account
names (Laker NetID’s) are no longer being recycled. The campus is already seeing the benefits of this
o Status
of wireless – CTS is working on rolling
out the new wireless in a few weeks.
ITC would like to see another round of testing before it is released.
§ The
VPN equipment is at the end of its life cycle. CTS is exploring options to replace the functionality of
accessing on-campus resources from off-campus. The functionality will continue, but will use different
equipment/technology.
o Email
Vendor
§ CTS
is actively looking for a replacement for the Sun JES email products.
§ CTAB:
Oct 9, 8:00am, Campus Center 114 – Demo of Microsoft Live@edu at CTAB
meeting. These are open meetings
and all are invited.
The Graduate Council convened on
Friday, September 25th at 8am.
Although there was no quorum, the members of the council who were
present were able to confirm that the following two items had been decided by
the Council in the meeting of May 8, 2009.
1. On May 8, 2009,
the Council approved the following courses: BRC 520: Technoculture Studies; BRC 521: Social Networks and
the Web; and BRC 522: Videogame Theory and Analysis.
2. On May 8, 2009 the Council also approved a change in diction
concerning the attendance policy in the Graduate Catalog.
The 2008-2009 catalog reads: "Regular attendance at classes is
obligatory. A student may be dropped
from a course for poor achievement due to excessive absence and, if dropped
after the deadline for dropping courses, will receive a final mark of
E." (p. 132). [Underlined words are the issue.]
The Council approved the following
language: "Regular attendance
at classes is obligatory. A
student may be dismissed from a course
for poor achievement due to excessive absence and, if dismissed after the deadline for dropping courses, will
receive a final mark of E."
Our next meeting will be on
Friday, October 9th at 8am in the English Department Conference
Room.
- · Admissions and Student Services
Council
- · Undergraduate
Curriculum Council met on Wednesday, 9/30/09 and approved
the following:
o Theater (THT) Department - Prereq Plan UCC
would also like to remind all departments that have not submitted prereq plans
to do so ASAP.
o Courses (All new courses)
1.
CHE 458 Crystallography
2.
EDU 360 Language, Power and Identity in Second/Foreign Language Education
3.
HIS 395 Historic Preservation and Heritage Tourism
UCC
also re-elected Marcia Burell and Karen Wolford as the Co-Chairs for UCC.
- · Faculty
Senator Gwen Kay
- · Catalog
Coordinator
- · Campus
Concept Committee met on October 5th
to prepare for the Master Plan architects’ visit the week of October 19th. On the 19th, the architects
will attend the Faculty Assembly meeting, make a presentation and will ask for
your input.
- · Writing
Across the Curriculum and Steering Committee
- · Admissions
to Major Task Force
V.
Graduate Division Report- D. King
Dean
King began his report that beginning October 21 through October 29 will be Grad
Week, and will be a series of programs to help students with learning more
about Graduate School. He stressed
that this was not a way to recruit students into the Graduate program at
Oswego, but it was a way to help students make informed decisions like if
Graduate study is for them. He
stated that there will be many forums for students to attend, along with a
Graduate and Profession School Fair that will be on Wednesday October 28th
from 11:00-2:00 pm in the Swetman Gymnasium. He also stated that the following week that Bob Casper will
be helping with TESTDRIVE by Kaplan Educational, which will allow students to
practice taking Graduate School Entrance Exams, including GRE, GMAT, LSAT and
MCAT.
He then stated
that the enrollment process will be changing for the graduate programs. For
non-degree students, applications will be exclusively online, and will not
mandate that an official transcript be handed in along with the
application. This was started in
the Spring for the Course-to-Connect program. Some of the challenges that they had from the Course-to
Connect program were that they would have people sign up for the class, and
they would know nothing about that person until the first day of class. He also
stated that he hoped in the near future that the degree program students in the
Graduate Program would also be able to submit their applications exclusively
online as well.
He then talked
about enrollment in the Graduate Program.
Dean King stated that full-time enrollment was up slightly, while
part-time enrollment dropped slightly.
He stated that there are currently 945 students in the Graduate Program,
which is a decline from 5 years ago when there were about 1200 graduate
students enrolled in the program.
Dean King
continued his report by stating that he wanted to rethink and develop more
programs, from the 2 dozen that are currently in existence, and wanted to
optimize the graduate program here at Oswego. He also wanted to increase the
number of applicants here to Oswego.
He continued to report that applications for this year are 133 more than
last year. They are also going to
send representative to more Graduate Fairs this year than in years past.
He then talked
about the Festa Fellowship program, which is a program funded by a generous
donor. This program allows
students to have a unique professional experience in any field of interest. Students in the past have shadowed
vice-presidents of major corporations, and working with non-profit
organizations.
Dean King lastly
talked about the Course-to-Connect program that happened at the Metro Center
this past summer. There were a
total of 140 eligible and registered for the summer session. He stated that they used this program
as an outreach to part-time students surrounding the metro area of
Syracuse. There were a total of
400 registered students at the Metro Center this summer. He concluded his report by stating that
there are a number of new initiatives, and that a list of program revisions,
programs and certificates will be sent out to Dean’s and Department Chairs in
the upcoming weeks.
VI.
Unfinished Business
--APC resolution on completing
half-the-major at SUNY Oswego
The APC resolution regarding "taking
less than 1/2 the major requirements" at Oswego was discussed in detail.
The culmination of the discussion was that a process (Program Deviation
request) is already in place and can be used by the student,
advisor, chair
and dean for appropriate circumstances. Therefore Chair Camp determined
that a vote on the resolution was not warranted.
VII.
New Business
Time
did not allow for discussion.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 PM.
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