Chair: Susan Camp

Recorder: Sarah Lewis

Members Absent: G. Porter, T. Ramalho, Educational Administration Dept., M. McCune, K. Marshall, C. Hockey, L. Wersebe, C. Ballesteros, R. Dunn, E. Basualdo. 

                        The meeting was called to order at 3:05 PM.

  I.              Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved as amended to include the proposal to suspend College Hour during construction, as well as to waive the 2-week rule on the proposed DSI schedule and the proposed Graduate Certificate Integrated Media and Design

  II.            Approval of April 19th, 2010 Minutes

The minutes were approved as distributed.

  III.         FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp

The Chair began her report by stating that the budget advisory council will be meeting again tomorrow, May 4^th.  She asked the Assembly that if they had any suggestions for the budget, saving money, or new initiatives to please share them on the “NING” community, send them to her or to whomever you would like to have take your idea forward.  Also she asked everyone to please attend the General Faculty Meeting at 4 and ask questions to President Stanley. 

She then continued her report to share that there is a College Hour program that will be talking about the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy.  The speaker will be J. D. Smith, a graduate of a U.S. service academy, and who helped to found Citizens for Repeal.  This will be in 101 Lanigan Hall, on Wednesday May 5^th.  This event is sponsored by SUNY Oswego's United University Professions and Pride Alliance. She concluded her report by thanking everyone for another year of collegial campus governance.   

IV.          Reports of Councils, Committees, and Task Forces

• Personnel Policies met and reported that at the General Faculty Meeting there will be one ballot cast, representing the entirety of Faculty Assembly for the only nominee for Faculty Assembly Chairperson, Susan S. Camp.  Also, the council reported that they discussed the proposed DSI schedule, and it will be very similar to last years, since it was decided that implementation for the new process would not be taken into action until it could be better reviewed.  Lastly, they reported that a call for service on councils went out today, and the council will work on that during finals week.
• Academic Policies Council met on April 30^th, and the revised proposal to revise the Childhood Education 1-6 B.S., Sciences Concentration passed after the necessary revisions were made.  Also, they reported that they wanted to thank and wish a fond farewell to Joyce Smith who will be retiring at the end of this year, and to thank her again for her contributions to APC over the years.
• Priorities and Planning met on April 22^nd, and discussed the proposed Integrated Media and Design Certificate proposal and it was approved.  Also there was no further review of the Certificate in Interdisciplinary Trauma studies, and is waiting for the development of a budget for this proposal.  There was also discussion about holding graduation ceremonies via Second Life and virtualizing other ceremonies such as Torchlight but no formal motion was made.

• General Education met on both April 20^th and April 27^th.  On April 20^th, the council discussed possible courses of action in light of the Faculty Assembly’s vote not to adopt our proposed change in the university policy concerning general education requirements for transfers holding approved associate’s degrees from SUNY units. The council then reflected on why the policy was defeated and to think about four possible courses of action in light of the new vote.  They also approved the amendment to the Sociology Department writing plan: in the introductory courses category:  removal of SOC 250 and Addition of SOC 210 & 260; in the writing to learn category:  removal of SOC 342 & 379 and addition of SOC 310, 353, and 373; and in the advanced courses category:  addition of SOC 442 and 460.  At the April 27^th meeting, the council approved the request that ART 207 which satisfies Art Majors’ Computer and Information Literacy be extended to include Art History majors and minors. The council continued deliberating over possible courses of action in light of the FA move on 19 April.  Three of the ideas were not accepted, the fourth one being that they make no change and allow SUNY Central to make the changes when they accept a new policy in the near future.

• Information Technology Council finished finalizing SCAP awards and they can be found on the CTAB Website.
  
• Library Council met on April 26th, and presentations were made by Shannon Pritting, highlighting some useful additions to the library's resources:

1. Beta Catalog. This catalog allows one to search by campus, SUNY system or world-wide. Features include Google book previews, ability to narrow search by related subject, relevancy of search, citation format and more. Still under review, the strength of the catalog is usability;
   researches at University of Rochester are conducting design analysis studies as it continues to adapt.
2. How do I? videos. Under "Library Instruction," there are 11 instructional videos, two minutes or less, based on queries received in virtual reference space.

           Shannon also informed the Council of information within the learning repository, that could be used anywhere on Angel, embedded in courses campus-wide.  As many faculty are unaware of these modules, we aked if all faculty using Angel could receive a list of these topics so they could be used as needed.

• Undergraduate Curriculum Council met on Wednesday, 4/28/10, and approved the following courses:

EDU 114 - Comparative and International Education: Non-Western Perspectives (New)

COM 316 - Health Communication (New)

COM 415 - Case Studies in Public Relations (Update)

COM 416 - Capstone in Public Relations (Update)

THT 472 - Theatre of Tragedy (Update)

• Faculty Senate will give a full report at the General Faculty Assembly Meeting following the meeting.
  
• Campus Concepts Committee met April 26th and 27th. At the April 26th meeting we continued to revise the guiding principles for CCC and discussed key elements of the East Campus Development
• General Education Visioning Committee At their last meeting, they reviewed Student Learning  Graduation Outcomes. We will continue with our work at our next meeting which is Wed. 5/5 at 8am.

--Revisions to Linguistics BA were discussed and it was reported that there were only two changes to the program, to change PSY 310 to PSY 361, and to add ANT/LIN 345 as an option to ANT 344.  This was approved unanimously.

--Audio Design and Production minor was discussed. It was reported that it would allow students with interest in Audio to be able to have a concentration in audio based on classes that are taught throughout the different Communication, Media and the Arts departments. The Assembly approved this unanimously.

--Revisions to MBA (828) were discussed and it was reported that it would add additional courses into the Advanced Tools option, and this was approved unanimously.

--Revisions to BS Public Accounting were discussed and it was reported that with this program there were no new courses, it is just separating it out as a stand alone program to be offered at Oswego.  This was approved by the Assembly unanimously. 

--Revisions to BS Accounting/MBA (824) were discussed and it was reported that the revisions consisted of addition of new courses. The Assembly approved this unanimously.

VI.          New Business

--Proposed DSI schedule was approved by the Assembly unanimously.

--Proposed Graduate Certificate Integrated Media and Design was discussed and it was reported that this would provide professions to gain and examine new knowledge in a particular area, and that it would be taught primarily in hybrid situations.  This was passed by the Assembly unanimously.

-- Suspension of College Hour During Construction was discussed by the Assembly.  This was proposed by a member of the Assembly so to create more classroom space during construction.  This was not a question of whether or not College Hour should exist overall, it was just a proposal to help open up time and classroom space during the construction of the Science Complex. This was approved by the Assembly by a vote of 21-17.

 The meeting was adjourned at 4:03 PM.