Chair: S. Camp

Recorder: J. Godkin

Members Absent: C. Clabough, D. Smart, W. Silky, S. Abraham, T. Graber, C. Warkentin, T. Delaney, and J. Langenfeld-Rial

                        The meeting was called to order at 3:18 PM.

I.   Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved unanimously.

II.  Approval of Minutes

The minutes from September 12 and 19 were approved unanimously.

III. FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp

The Chair reported that FAEB discussed the feasibility of  both mounting a review of administrative officers taskforce and mounting a review of one dean. They do not believe that it would be wise, so S. Camp is withdrawing her recommendation to review Dean Karns this year. After the Task Force reports in the Spring the Assembly can proceed to elect Review Committees for the Dean of Business and the Dean of Arts and Sciences. If anyone disagrees, please make a motion later in this meeting.

IV.   Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

Priorities and Planning Council met Monday, October discussed the ex-officio membership of the Academic Outreach Council. The Provost and others had requested that the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research and the Director of the Center for Business and Community Programs be added in place of the Assistant Provost for Distance Learning and Information Resources, a position that no longer exists. PPC agreed that it would be appropriate to invite the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research and the Director of the Center for Business and Community Programs to attend meetings of the Academic Outreach Council as observers for this academic year. PPC further agreed to draft an amendment to the Faculty bylaws to permanently add these two positions to the ex-officio membership of that council.

General Education Council met Monday, October 17th and will meet again on Friday, October 21st at 3pm. 

Library Council met on Thursday, October 6 and elected Mark Kulikowski as the Chair.  K. Kurst-Swanger was elected as Faculty Recorder and representative to the FAEB. Both Karel and Mark are on Sabbatical leave in the spring, so new elections will need to be held. They received a report on the progress of the Library Visioning Committee.  Joe Rial presented the work he is doing with the Oswego Public Library in designing their children's library. The Children's Library is designed to celebrate the origins and history of Oswego. Joe is considered developing opportunities for our students to be engaged in the project. The Council fully supported the initiative.  The Library Goals for 2005-2006 were distributed and will be discussed at a future meeting.  The Committee was updated on what is new at the Library since last semester.  They will meet again on Thursday, November 3rd.

Undergraduate Curriculum Council has asked P. Russo to convene a meeting.  She is working with J. Nichols to collect items from last year and update the website.

Library Visioning Committee met on October 5 and made final revisions in a survey template that will be used in a number of forthcoming focus groups with faculty to discuss ideas about the future of Penfield Library (over the next 10 to 20 years). Some of these focus group discussions will involve FA councils (Priorities & Planning; Academic Policies; Library). The committee was given a tour of part of Penfield by Library Director Mary Beth Bell. Finally, plans are also under way for two trips to new college libraries in the region (one trip to western New York and the other to the Utica-Rome area).

Campus Concept Committee met October 5, 2005 and approved the "Sciences Mission Statement".  CCC will meet again on Nov 2, at 3 p.m. in 103 Rich Hall.

WTOP is hosting a Hurricane Relief Telethon on October 30th from 6-8pm in the Hewitt Union Ballroom and encourages both faculty and students to participate.

V.   Elections

1.   Elections for vacancies on FA Councils and Committees

The following people were elected to FA Councils and Committees:

            General Education Council

            Humanities: G. Whittingham

            Admissions & Student Services Council

            Non-FA: B. Hampton

            Auxiliary Services

            W. LaMana

            Conflict of Interest

            A&S: R. Dighe

            Professional Staff: S. Kyle

VI.  Unfinished Business

A motion to amend the Academic Administrative Officers Task Force to include one Professional Staff member passed.  The Task Force was then approved unanimously. 

VII.  New Business

There was no new business.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:17 PM.