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Members Absent: G.
Porter, Educational Administrative Dept., L. Bacher, G. Ketcham, C. Hockey, L.
Wersebe, C. Ballesteros, R. Dunn, J. Langenfeld-Rial, E. Basualdo
The
meeting was called to order at 3:08 PM.
I. Approval
of Agenda
The agenda was
approved as distributed.
II. Approval
of February 15th, 2010 Minutes
The minutes were
approved as distributed as amended with the revisions to the Information
Technology Council’s report.
III. FA
Chair’s Report – S. Camp
The Chair began
her report by stating that the President’s Budget Advisory Group met Feb 24th. The New York State Executive budget proposes
another $117 million dollar cut, including the $90 million mid-year permanent
cut to SUNY. She stated that after all
the calculations it looks like Oswego’s share will be about $2.3-2.4 million
for 2010-2011. The President, she
stated, is asking all faculty and staff to look at strategies to take savings
to harvest money for reinvestment. She also reported that there were nine
faculty out of 31 present at this meeting, which included Professor Abraham,
Professor Beyerbach, Professor Huonker, Professor Schmitt, Professor Clabough Professor
Stamm, Professor Halpin, Professor Crawford, and the Chair herself.
She continued her
report by stating that several council seats have been vacated. Dr. Camp stated that we need to replace Ian
Cuthill from Business on the General Education council and Amy Shore, who held
a Faculty Assembly seat on the Admissions and Students Services council.
IV. Reports
of Councils, Committees, and Task Force
Personnel
Policies met on March 1st, and discussed department
representation for Faculty Assembly. The
council discussed how the current system that is in place is very involved and
time consuming to try and figure out the right numbers for each respective
department. The council wants to abandon
this model and adopt a model where each department has 2 representatives, which
would be more like a Senate. An Assembly
member asked how representation would be managed for interdisciplinary
programs, and it was stated that these departments have links to one or more
departments so their interests should be represented through that respective
department or departments. There was a call out for this to be discussed more
at the next meeting. Also, the council
discussed a follow up on electronic voting.
It was decided that electronic voting is not a substitute for in person discussion
and voting. This brought of the issue of faculty that commute long distances to
work here during the week, and that these faculty should remain on campus for
at least three days out of the week so that they can be really involved with
the campus.
Academic
Policies Council met on February 19th, and reviewed a proposal
to revise the Wellness Management B.S. which was passed. The council also listened to Provost
Coultrap-McQuin about the issues related to the introduction of new
programs. She gave out a list of
questions that should be asked every time a program revision comes to this council. The council discussed these questions as well
as other questions that were brought up by members, as well as how to go about
reviewing existing programs. Also it was discussed about the need to act on the
use of Upper Division Standing as a prerequisite. There is an existing loophole that allows
anyone to be able to place this restriction on courses without anyone’s
permission. The recommended wording to
close this loophole, suggested by M. Mohammadi was, “Upper Division Standing is
an approved prerequisite and can no longer be a restriction placed on courses
without approval from UCC”. The next
meeting will be on March 5th.
General
Education—The council is preparing a recommendation on how SUNY Oswego will
respond to the BOT changes in General Education as students transfer with
associates degrees.
Graduate
Council met on Friday, February 19th. The Council discussed and approved
the Human and Computer Interaction (HCI) Professional Track. The Council also began discussion of proposed
revisions to Childhood Education 1-6.
Admissions
and Student Services Council will meet soon.
Undergraduate
Curriculum Council met on February 17th and February 24th,
and approved the following courses:
- CSC 323 (let’s get names here)
- ENG 485
- MAT 159
It also reviewed BRC 220,
and CSC 454, which were not approved.
UCC also looked at five pre-requisite plans that were approved or are pending
approval:
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- Sociology
- Biology
- Health
Promotion and Wellness
- Earth
Science
- Creative
Writing
UCC is still waiting on three
missing pre-requisites for the following programs/Departments:
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- Political
Science
- Counseling
and Psychological Services
- Global
and International Studies
Academic
Outreach met on February 26th, and the committee was updated on
the State Education Department visit to the Metro Center and Summer program planning. The council also received an overview by
Nancy Bellow of the programs of the Office of Business and Community
Development (OBCD) as well as a brief overview of the programs at the Metro
Center.
- Catalog
Coordinator reported that the Undergraduate Catalog has left her desk, and
the Graduate Catalog is a little behind and will be completed over Spring
Break.
Campus Concept Committee met Feb 22 and reviewed and made
recommendations to change membership, function and guiding principles for
campus construction.
Writing Across the Curriculum and Steering
Committee met and is working
on guidelines for the writing awards that were discussed at last meeting, as
well as an assessment for Writing Across the Curriculum.
Admissions to Major Task Force met and gave a copy of the report to the
Provost for her review.
General Education Task Force- met for the first time two weeks ago and
looked at the literature of what people were saying so they could get a feel
for the entire field.
V. Elections
- Student
Association Senate Representative- Ken Marshall
- The
Assessment Advisory Committee:
- Social Sciences representative- Bill Goffe
- School of Education- Jean Halligan
- School of Business- Raihan Khan
- Penfield- Kathryn Johns-Masten
- General Education Council-
School of Business
representative- Sarfraz Mian.
VI. Unfinished
Business
--Proposed revisions to
Information Science B.A. were approved unanimously by the Assembly.
--Proposed revisions to
Adolescence Education B.S., Chemistry 7-12 were approved unanimously by the
Assembly.
--Proposed revisions to
Adolescence Education B.S., Earth Sciences 7-12 were approved unanimously by
the Assembly.
--Proposed SCAP allocations were
approved unanimously by the Assembly.
VII. New
Business
--The Prerequisite Enforcement Ad
Hoc Committee would like to have the following POLICY regarding Upper Division
Standing as a Prerequisite presented to the Faculty Assembly without the
two-week waiting period at the FA meeting on
March 1st.
“Upper
Division Standing is an approved prerequisite and can no longer be a
restriction placed on a course without approval from UCC.”
Before discussion began about this, there was a
motion to waive the 2-week rule to vote on this proposal, which passed. There was then discussion and it was approved
by the Assembly unanimously.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:03 PM.
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