Chair: Dr. Susan Camp

Recorder: Sarah Lewis

Members Absent: J. Carroll, J. Fiorini, D. Parsons, Educational Administration Department, K. Peterson, T. Delaney.

                        The meeting was called to order at 3:07 PM.

I. Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved as distributed.

II. Approval of November 16th, 2009 Minutes

The minutes were approved as distributed.

III. FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp

Dr. Camp began her report by stating that it is time to start recruiting Faculty Assembly Chair nominees.  She stated at this meeting that she decided in September that she would not run again for Chair in the Spring.  She wanted to announce this now so that the Assembly could start recruiting people to run for the chair position.

She then reported that The President's Budget Advisory Committee will meet on Dec 10 and if there are items for you at that time, she will send an e-mail to inform Assembly members.  

IV. Reports of Councils, Committees, and Task Forces

Personnel Policies distributed the proposal for the Assessment Advisement Committee. The Council also worked on the interdisciplinary personnel policies.

Academic Policies Council met on November 20th.  The Council approved the revisions to the B.A. in Political Science and the minor in Political Science contingent upon UCC approval of a new course in that department that is a combination of two existing courses.  They also discussed the
Philosophy-Psychology proposal which awaits UCC approval of Phl 496 as an equivalent course to PSY 475H.  Revisions to the History Minor were considered and sent back to the department with suggestions.  Additionally, Rameen gave an update on the work being done by the Change of Major Task Force.  We discussed a need for programs with restrictions to have the restrictions reviewed before going into place and the need for follow up reviews.  It was agreed that both APC and PPC should be included in this process.  The Council will meet again on Friday, December 4^th. 

Graduate Council met on November 20^th. The Graduate Council approved the proposed revision to the Advanced Tool Options from MBA programs, with one change:  that the word chemistry in the first bullet item on page 2 be changed to accounting.  Patrick Murphy distributed the recent memo from Academic Policies Council (Nov. 16, 2009) regarding the catalog copy concerning the Class Attendance Issue. The Graduate Council began to discuss the Graduate Internship Policies.  Council members agreed to invite representatives from various ongoing certificate and program development initiatives to attend the first meeting in the spring semester of 2010 to discuss further possible language for the Graduate Internship policies.  Lastly, David King reported on Graduate Program development priorities for 2009-10.

Admissions and Student Services Council met on November 18^th. The council reviewed results of a review of availability of career information on the web presence of majors/departments.  The Council then had Bob Casper discuss the four major initiatives the COMPASS is undertaking which included CDPs, Laker Leaders, Sophomore Year Experience, and On-Line reference center.  The Council will meet again on December 9^th.

Undergraduate Curriculum Council. UCC met on Wednesday, 11/18/09 and Monday 11/30/09. The following courses were approved:

Status of Pre-requisite plan approval

UCC will meet next on Wednesday, 12/9/09

Middle States reported that the representatives from the University attended a conference in Philadelphia and was given much needed information at the conference.  They have created a Steering Committee for the Middle States, and will host two College Hour presentations on the process and what will be happening during the Middle States Assessment.  The first meeting will be in February and will be an informational meeting, whereas the April presentation will have a Middle States liason that will host a Q & A session with Faculty.  They also recommended to Faculty Assembly to consider allowing Friday College Hour time to be reserved for Middle States working groups in the 2010-2011 Academic year, which will be discussed at the first meeting in the Spring Semester.   

Campus Concept Committee met today to continue discussion on our approach to the planning of the Hewitt Quad

Admissions to Major Task Force will meet on Friday December 4^th, and will review the results of the focus meetings that were held.  Also the Task Force will review the surveys of faculty and students that were returned in the last few weeks.   

V. Elections

Elections to General Education Visioning Task Force:

• CLAS Humanities- Georgina Whittingham
• CLAS Sciences- David Valentino
• School Of Education- Tania Ramalho
• Library- Barbara Schaffer 
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--President’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service proposal was approved by the Assembly unanimously.

--President’s Award for Excellence in Professional Staff Service proposal was approved by the Assembly unanimously.

--Revisions to Undergraduate Catalog copy for class attendance policy were discussed by the Assembly.  There was a motion to divide the question: the first paragraph and the second paragraph into two separate questions, which was approved by the Assembly.  Then the motion to drop the second paragraph from the catalog passed unanimously.  There was more discussion on the topic, but it was agreed on the floor that the policy be sent back to APC for revisions.  A motion to send policy back to APC for revisions was approved.

--Revisions to Biochemistry B.S. were discussed by the Assembly.  Larry Fuller briefly informed the Assembly of the changes of the B.S. by dropping ZOO 360 so that students in this major are required to take BIO 309.  This was passed unanimously by the Assembly.  

--Revisions to Guidelines for Selection of the Chancellor’s Award Selection Committee was also discussed by the Assembly, and passed by a vote of 39-1.

--Meeting During the College Hour was briefly mentioned to the Assembly.  The Chair stated that it was brought to her attention that departments were holding their meetings during the College Hour instead of giving that time to be an opportunity for programming around campus.  She stated that she had talked to the Provost and the President about this problem and that this will be further discussed in the following semesters.
  

 The meeting was adjourned at 4:15 PM.