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Chair: Dr. Susan Camp
Recorder: Sarah Lewis
Members
Absent: Anthropology Department, K. Budd, K. Eichhorn, J. Fiorini, Educational
Administration Department, A. S. Short, M. Mosbo, G. Ketcham, M. Ryniker, C.
Ballesteros.
The
meeting was called to order at 3:07 PM.
I.
Approval of Agenda
The agenda was
approved as distributed.
II.
Approval of November 2nd, 2009 Minutes
The minutes were
approved as distributed.
III.
FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp
Dr. Camp began her
report by stating that there was a proposal up front to revise the Chancellor’s
awards selection committee. This
will be voted on at the next Assembly meeting. She also stated that the President’s Budget advisory
committee will meet on December 10thand if there are items for you
at that time, she will send them via email.
She then talked
about the Intellectual Integrity Committee report, which included a Report of
Violations Summary, which broke down the different colleges and departments
where violations of intellectual integrity were being reported. A faculty member stated that they had
not received a copy of this report, and asked that the Chair send out copies to
Faculty Assembly.
Dr. Camp then
concluded her report by stating that the Assembly should be looking for information
on the Smartthinking pilot information sessions that are being offered through
the Office of Learning Services.
IV.
Reports of Councils, Committees, and Task Forces
Personnel
Policies Council met on November 6th,
and reviewed the Provost’s request for forming an assessment advisory committee. This committee would be similar to the
Campus Concept Committee that is already in place, but would need some work on
the format of the proposal before it would be distributed to Faculty
Assembly. There was also a
discussion of the faculty representation on FA, and PPC wanted to create a
system that would be fairly similar to the FTE numbers that are currently in
use.
Academic
Policies Council met on November 6th
and discussed the Political Science major and minor proposal, which was sent
back to the department for revisions.
APC also discussed the biochemistry major changes, and noted that there
was a pre-requisite problem in the program, but was passed on contingency that
the pre-requisite problem was resolved within the program. Lastly, the Council
reported that there was discussion about class attendance within the
catalog. They have brought a
proposal to the floor that would remove the two paragraphs that state:
“Regular class attendance is
obligatory. An instructor may
recommend that a student be dropped from a course for poor achievement due to
excessive absences. A student who
is dropped after the deadline for dropping courses may be assigned a grade of
E.
Students who have two unexcused
absences during the first two class meetings of the semester may be dropped for
from the course at the discretion of the instructor. The instructor of the department offering the course will
notify the Registrar of this action.
However, students should not assume that they have been dropped from a
class just because the first two classes were missed. It is ultimately the responsibility of students to drop a
course that they are not planning to attend by the deadline published in the
Official College calendar. Failure
to do so may result in a failing grade in the course.”
And be replaced with the
following:
“Except as noted below
attendance requirements are the prerogative of the instructor.”
This proposal has been brought to
the floor and will be discussed at the next Faculty Assembly meeting.
General
Education met and Council approved CSC
103- Computing Tools and Information Literacy for Educators, MUS 390 African
Music in the Americas (for non-western civilization) and GEO 115 Environmental
Sustainability (for knowledge foundations in the Natural Sciences) The Council also approved the History
Writing Plan revisions. The
General Education Council will meet again on November 23rd.
Information
Technology Council met on November 13th.
The council has heard presentations by Google and Microsoft and evaluations on
both services continues. They also
reported that the deadline for SCAP is November 20th, and forms are
available on the CTAB web site (http://www.oswego.edu/techboard).
They also discussed the student
pictures being integrated with banner.
They have not made any more progress with this and CTS needs to first
get through Banner 8 upgrade, which will be happening in the next couple
weeks. ITC also reported that on
December 29th, the wireless will be converted from the VPN to the
new system, and there will be no wireless access on campus for 4-6 hours. Lastly they reported that a demo of
MSLive and Google Apps for Education were presented to those who have begun to
evaluate the 2 services. They have
found that products are quite similar, but they both present their own
strengths, MSLive will be upgraded to v4 soon, and testing will likely continue
into February, and that Joe will be making a presentation to President’s
Council on the concept of cloud computing and on the 2 products. ITC meets again on December 11th.
Library
Council met on November 9th and
welcomed the student representative Grace Maxon. The Council also reported that Mary Beth Bell announced that
the Library has identified a “preferred” architect for their program study
which will start this winter. She
outlined the process that the architects will use to conduct the program study
and a discussion ensued as to some of the renovations that will be done. The Council’s next meeting is scheduled
for December 7th.
Undergraduate
Curriculum Council met on Wednesday, 11/11
and approved the prereq plans for Anthropology and Chemistry. There are an
additional four plans that we are working through with the departments and the
registrar. In light of this, we will be meeting again on Wednesday, 11/18.
Academic
Outreach met on November 6th,
and had two initiatives that were discussed at the meeting. The first one was a piloting session
that is in the works for offering classes right after commencement for 2 weeks. The reasoning behind this suggestion
was that Extended Learning believed that there is a large market of students
that would take advantage of such an offering. The second initiative that was discussed was the graduate
initiative of a certification in health information technology. It is believed that there was a great
need for these kinds of certifications currently.
Admissions
to Major Task Force will be asking for
input to a survey later during the meeting.
V.
Transfer Services Report- C. Hockey
Mr. Hockey started
his report by mentioning that the transfer student population on campus has
evolved, and that it is important to understand who they are and where they are
from in order to retain them. He
then shared some statistics about the transfer student population, which
included 95% are full time students, 51% live on-campus, 34% of them have their
associate degree from a 2 year school, and that 28% of the transfer student
population is 25 years old or older.
He then stated that the top five community colleges that feed into SUNY
Oswego were: Onondaga Community College, Cayuga Community College, Mohawk
Valley Community College, Herkimer Community College and Fingerlakes Community
College.
He talked about
the general articulation agreement and the program articulation agreement. He explained that the general
articulation agreement is how we will accept transfers into Oswego. The program articulation agreement was
the same basic principle of the general articulation agreement, however it is
program specific. He gave the example
of someone transferring in as a Criminal Justice major at a community college,
and transferring the classes they have taken into the Public Justice program
here at SUNY Oswego.
We offer an
orientation for transfer students, and this is unique to SUNY Oswego. He stated that there has been research
that proves that this is beneficial.
Mr. Hockey then
continued his report by talking about the summer and winter advisement. He stated that this is where his
department needs help from the faculty, since they need help with providing
advisement at any major at any time.
His department wants to make sure that each department is represented at
these orientations so that the transfer student has more flexibility in which
orientation program they can attend.
He also stated that his department also handles the abundance of
questions that are emailed about the questions and concerns of the transfer
students, and also their parents.
He then continued
his report to talk about the programs that they offer through the Transfer
Services Center. He talked about
the MOST Mentoring program, which is introduced to the transfer students at
orientation. This pairs up an incoming
transfer student with a previously enrolled transfer student. He stated that there are about 50
students on both sides of the program.
He also talked about the TRANSFERmation program, the Laker, and
TransferEdge. TransferEdge is a
fairly new program, and is an early orientation program that is offered in
April in conjunction with Admission’s Open House that is held in April. He stated that this program is a way to
get transfer students to commit to Oswego early. He also mentioned Tau Sigma, which is the National Transfer
Honor Society that is on campus, which is in its 6th year on campus
and is also very active, along with the robust information that can be found on
the Transfer Service website, which offers information about the activities and
amenities that are offered within Oswego, to a list of courses that are
transferable to SUNY Oswego from the respective community college.
Mr. Hockey lastly
reported the future initiatives that are in the works in the Transfer Services
Department. Some of these
initiatives include: Transfer Learning Communities, the Transfer Preceptor
Courses, MOST link with GST 304, the Transfer Student Advisory Board, and
Foundations of Excellence.
VI.
Elections for Vacancies
-- Priorities and Planning Council
(1 library seat):
-Chris
Hebblethwaite was elected to fill this seat.
VII.
Unfinished Business
--Parking Resolution was discussed briefly by the Assembly. There was a motion to amend the time
from being 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM which was voted down by a vote of 9-22. There was a second motion to amend by
removing the last sentence from the resolution, which was passed by a vote of
16-13. The Parking Resolution was
passed as amended by a vote of 23-4.
--General Education Recommendation to change Prerequisites for all
Intellectual Issues courses from “completion of all basic skills requirements
and knowledge foundations courses or permission of instructor” to “junior standing” was also discussed by
the Assembly. There was a friendly amendment proposed by the General Education
Council that included: “Junior standing [with an advisory note: It is
advised that all knowledge foundations and basic skills be met]” There was
a motion on the floor to amend the Recommendation to include “or permission of
instructor” which passed by a vote of 22-15. The recommendation was passed as amended by a vote of 29-7.
--Proposed General Education Visioning Task Force was also
discussed by the Assembly. There
was a motion on the floor to include 1 library representative to the council,
which was passed unanimously.
There was also a second motion on the floor to have the student representative
from the General Education Council to be included on the Task Force, which
passed with a vote of 37-1. The
Task Force was approved as amended unanimously.
VIII.
Discussion on Declaration of Major Task Force Survey
The surveys for
both students and faculty were handed out at this time. There was much discussion about the
survey. He asked that everyone please fill out the questionnaire, and that
another copy with examples of what they are looking for in the questions will
be sent over email.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:04 PM.
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