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I. Approval of Agenda
The agenda was approved as amended to include “Task Force on Admissions to a Major or Change of Major” under the unfinished business.
II. Approval of April 13th, 2009 Minutes
The minutes were approved as distributed.
III. FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp
The Chair began her report by talking about the creation of the Academic Planning/Renewal Committee, which would be modeled after Campus Concept Committee. There will be more discussion about it this fall. She then continued her report to state that she and Senator Ryniker will be attending University Faculty Senate at University of Buffalo this week, including a professional development seminar/webinar on Leadership in SUNY Governance. She report that if there was anyone that would like to attend the webinar, let her know and you could attend via your own computer.
Dr. Camp then continued her report and said that a suggestion box was recommended last month. She wanted to let the Assembly know that her email would be considered a suggestion box. It was also suggested that we should write a brief history of Faculty Assembly. The Chair has asked Tim Nekritz to complete this. He has agreed to help, but will need the help of others to complete it.
She lastly stated that anyone wishing to run for FA chair, Faculty Senator or Alternate Faculty Senator, to please let Joan Carroll know before the beginning of the General Faculty Assembly Meeting.
IV. Reports of Councils, Committees, and Task Forces
• Personnel Policies met on both April 20 and 27, and has finalized the Faculty Canvas, calling for participation in Faculty Assembly councils and committees beginning in fall '09. The call will be sent electronically this week, and a reminder will be sent next week. PPC plans to meet on Wednesday, May 13 to develop a list of nominees. The council has continued its work on bylaw policies and procedures for faculty with interdisciplinary responsibilities, and plans to bring a proposal to the Assembly in the fall. The call for nominations for SUNY faculty senator and alternate resulted in one nominee for senator, Gwen Kay (History) and one nominee for alternate, Laura Brown (Psychology). The election will be held at today's General Faculty meeting. Susan Camp, as the sole nominee, has been reelected chair of the Faculty Assembly by acclamation.
• Academic Policies Council met on April 17, and discussed some issues with Andy Westfall which included course numberings and course descriptions. They also discussed the proposed revision to the B.S. in Geology, Environmental Geology Program Track II. There was some discussion and confusion about this, so the proposal was sent back for clarification of some issues. There was also a discussion about changing the class attendance policy, but no recommendation was proposed at the meeting. Also APC approved the proposal to revise the B.S. English Certification—Adolescence Education: 7-12. Also APC passed by email vote a request from Public Justice to remove the seven numbered items on pg. 45 of the current undergraduate catalog and replace these items with: “The core courses, PBJ 101, PBJ 201, PBJ 301, PBJ 397 and PBJ 401, must be taken sequentially. A Grade of C- or better must be earned in each core course before taking the next core course.” APC will meet again on May 1st.
• General Education The council met on March 21and modified the Intellectual Issues Learning Outcome rubric that was proposed by the Intellectual Issues Outcome working group. The modified document was approved by the Council. The Council began deliberations on departmental critical thinking assessment plans and will continue with this task at the next meeting. General Education Council will meet again on Tuesday, 28 April 2009 at 8:00am
• Priorities and Planning met and discussed and approved the proposed Geology B.S.
• Information Technology Council met on April 15th, and discussed the new Account Naming Schema. CTS completed a technical review and the review turned up some issues that hamper the full implementation of the plan. The pieces that will be put into place include:
o The Account Name needed to log into campus systems will remain the same as it is now. This is a change in the original proposal.
• You will log into email, ANGEL, library databases, lab computers, etc with your current – 8-character or less – username.
• The username and password you use to log in to campus systems will not change.
• This is necessary as some systems have a 12-character limit and others do not care for the ‘dot’.
o New email addresses for faculty and staff will be available this summer. Existing faculty will have 2 valid email addresses: your current email address, and the new, longer, preferred email address that includes your first & last names.
• You will log into your account using your existing, shorter user name; however you can have email addressed to you at either email address
o Student email addresses will not change in 2009.
o Beginning this summer, account names and email addresses will no longer be recycled.
It is hoped that other pieces of the original proposal can be implemented later as technology is developed to better handle the current challenges. It was also reported that there would be an email sent to all faculty and staff that will explain the project and process of the new email address, and list the new preferred user account name. Amendments to the CTAB bylaws require consultation with ITC as well as approval by the appropriate VP and President Most of the amendments are for cleanup and housekeeping as positions and committee names have changed over time. Additions are:
• The CTO is a member of the CTAB Executive Committee
• The purpose was expanded at the request of Joe Moreau to “assist in the development of strategic plans for campus technology” The Council endorses the bylaws amendments.
Lastly, IT reported that the system used to authenticate or login to campus unix computers is not
LDAP. Maintaining that system and LDAP is viewed as labor intensive in the long run.
The Council has asked CTS to determine what services are currently logging into the unix
computers. The next step will be to explore options for maintaining these services while reducing
extra work for CTS. This topic will be discussed further in the Fall.
• Graduate Council met on April 24th, and approved the Graduate Independent Study Policy as modified by Faculty Assembly. The council also approved two courses,
EDU 581- Schools and Urban Society
PSY 526- Psychology of Race: Examining Racial and Ethnic Identity
The council also received and approved the catalog copy of the MS Chemistry—Professional Track.
• Undergraduate Curriculum Council UCC met on 4/15/09 and approved the following courses:
BRC 420 - Technology and Culture (New)
BRC 421 - Social Networks and the Web (New)
BRC 422 - Videogame Theory and Analysis (New)
UCC met again on 4/22/09 and approved the following courses and prerequisite plans.
Courses approved:
GST 100 - College Orientation and Success (Update)
HIS 352 - The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Update)
MGT 480 - Women in Management (Update)
PED 226 - Advanced Open Water Diving (New)
PSY 452 - Introduction to Trauma Studies (New)
WST 260 - Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender (New)
Prerequisite plans approved:
AFL
MGT/MKT: prerequisites approved with removal of grade requirements for MGT 495 as prohibited by new FA bylaws.
UCC will meet next on Wednesday, 4/29/09
• Faculty Senator reported that she and the Assembly Chair will be going to Buffalo this upcoming week for the University Faculty Senate Plenary meeting.
• Campus Concept Committee will meet on May 5th to hear reports of Academic Climate steering committee, School of Education project and Sciences project.
• Writing Across the Curriculum and Steering Committee reported to the Assembly that they have received the final data from the student writing survey in addition to data from the faculty survey on the writing center and will be meeting on Tuesday April 28, 2009 to being compiling its report. The audiences for the report include the Provost’s Council and General Education Council. The first data to be analyzed will reflect both students’ and faculty’s views on the writing center. The final report will be completed for the first Faculty Assembly meeting in the fall, after the Provost’s Council and General Education Council have reviewed the report. Review of membership on the committee is also being discussed in light of the formation of the School of Communication, Media and the Arts. Lastly, the committee also reported the members of the committee are Judith Belt, SOE (member at large and chair), Anne Fairbrother, SOE representative, Michael Murphy, Writing Coordinator, Linda Rae Markert, administrative representative, Leigh Bacher, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences representative, Karen Shockey, Penfield Library (member at large) Gay Williams, School of Business representative, Don Masterson, English Dept. representative, Chirs LaLaonde, General Education Director, and Elyzabeth Wengert, OLS Director.
V. Unfinished Business
-- DSI 2009 Calendar was discussed by the Assembly. There was an addition of May 18th for the College Faculty Panel. The calendar was approved unanimously.
-- Family and Consumer Sciences (all grades) B.S. new program was presented to the Assembly. After it was presented it was approved unanimously.
-- Agricultural Education revisions were approved by the Assembly unanimously.
-- Business and Marketing Education revisions were approved by the Assembly unanimously.
-- Art BA Track II---Art History Emphasis revisions was presented before the Assembly. It was stated that it was mostly for the name change and to get ready for accreditation. They are also keeping within standards for accreditation. It was also amended to add ART 358- Native American Art. After this was briefly discussed, the Assembly passed it unanimously.
-- Literacy Education: Birth through Grade 6 MSED revisions was discussed by the Assembly. Both the birth through Grade 6 and Grade 5-12 were adding an additional class, and taking away one of the electives to make room for the new class and not having to change the amount of total credits needed for the degree. After it was discussed, the Assembly passed it unanimously.
-- Literacy Education: Grades 5-12 MSED revisions was passed by the Assembly unanimously.
-- Transfer Student appeals process for course evaluation was passed by the Assembly unanimously.
-- Task Force on Admissions to a major or Change of Major was presented to the Assembly. After a brief discussion, the Assembly passed it unanimously.
--Revision of B.S. Adolescence Education English 7-12 was presented to the Assembly. There was a waiver of the traditional two-week rule. The waiver was set in place so that the revisions could be passed and sent off to the State for approval over the summer. After this was discussed, the Assembly passed it unanimously.
VI. New Business
There was no new business.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:55 PM.
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