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Chair: Dr. Susan Camp
Recorder: Sarah Lewis
Members Absent: Anthropology
Department, M. Nojan, J. Fiorini, Educational Administration Department, K.
Marshall, W. Opello
The
meeting was called to order at 3:12 PM.
I.
Approval
of Agenda
The agenda was
approved with the addition of election of Vice-Chair of Faculty Assembly
II.
Approval
of April 27th, 2009 Minutes
The minutes were
approved as distributed.
III.
FA
Chair’s Report – S. Camp
Dr. Camp began
her report by stating that this was her 7th fall as the Faculty
Assembly Chair. She then stated that the
agenda was not clear and that the first vote is for the Faculty Assembly vice-chair. Joan Carroll has served for the last 6+ years
since Walter Opello became FA Chair in the spring of 2003.
She
then asked everyone to continue to bring your own coffee/tea/water mugs to the
meetings. The Chair then also asked that
all reports to the Assembly should also be forwarded to Sarah Lewis at slewis2@oswego.edu, for inclusion in the
minutes. Lastly she asked that everyone in the Assembly please speak loudly as
they report and debate at the meetings.
Dr.
Camp then continued her report by asking people to make suggestions to improve
governance at any time. She lastly
reported that the Assembly members check their mail and the Assembly website
since email@oswego.edu is the official
means of communication. There are
several initiatives springing up that include Middle States, Foundations of
Excellence, and General Education visioning.
IV.
Reports
of Councils, Committees, and Task Forces
- Personnel
Policies met
on May 17 to review the responses to the faculty canvas for service on councils
and committees, resulting in the PPC nominees on the spreadsheet distributed at
today's meeting. Individual requests were honored as much as possible except
where, for example, a department already had a member on a council or committee
or there was no vacancy in a suitable seat. Where an individual offered to
serve on more than one council or committee, the number next to their name
indicates their order of preference. In a couple of cases, individuals whose
current term has not expired have withdrawn from the council, and their names
have been lined out on the list of current members. Additional nominations may
be made from the floor as the elections are conducted.
- Academic
Policies Council met on Friday May 1, 2009.
The proposal to revise the B.S. Geology, Environmental Geology Program
Track II was passed with the understanding that it would not be acted upon
until GEO 486 is either found in a previous catalog or submitted to UCC. The
proposal to revise the Computer Sciences B.S. program was passed and is down
front. Also the “half-the-major here
policy” was discussed again, at great length.
A resolution was passed and is distributed for the consideration of
Faculty Assembly.
- General
Education met on September 14th, and Dennis Parsons was elected
chair. The Council voted to table the Music Department writing plan revisions
until next meeting. Council discussed
ways to assist departments/faculty in upcoming assessment of a) Intellectual
Issues and b) current (2009-10) assessment of Critical Thinking:
a). Council decided to “ask
faculty teaching Intellectual Issues courses this year to indicate to the Council
a representative assignment they will be giving the students and how that
particular assignment will allow the students to indicate they have indeed met
the learning outcomes for the course.
Graham was generous enough to volunteer to develop the template to give
to faculty with our question(s). This
will help when it comes to seeing how we can help faculty with the assessment.”
b). “We thought it best to remind
departments and programs that Council members are available to help answer
questions regarding the AY 2009-2010 assessment of critical thinking but that
the Council need not force itself on the aforementioned bodies. LaLonde will send another reminder of the
assessment to chairs and program directors next month.”
- Graduate
Council will meet on 9/25 at 8 am.
- Undergraduate
Curriculum Council will meet on 9/16 and have a number of pre-approvals and
pre-requisites planned for this meeting.
- Catalog
Coordinator announced that this year’s undergraduate and graduate catalogs
came out beautifully and were printed over the summer. The online catalog is also up to date.
- Campus Concept Committee met with architects working on the SUNY
Oswego Facilities Master plan on September 1, 2009. The planning process will take place over the
next 10 months and all of you will be consulted in the early stages. The next meeting is September 25th
to begin planning for Fall CCC discussions.
- Admissions to Majors Task Force met twice during the
summer. Rameen Mohammadi was elected chair. Committee will meet regularly this
fall and will make a recommendation by the end of this semester.
- Fritz Messere announced that this week was “Constitution
Week” on campus, and wished that all Faculty and Staff support the programs
that will be offered during “Constitution Week”
- Oswego Jazz Project will not be every Wednesday, and it will only
be a couple times a month during the semester due to budget cuts, and faculty
and staff support was asked for the Oswego Jazz Project.
V. Elections
*Elected to Vice
Chair of the Assembly
Joan Carroll
*Elected to FA seats on Personnel
Policies Council
Margaret Ryniker
Sandra Moore
*Elected to Non-FA Seats on
Personnel Policies Council
Elizabeth Schmitt
Richard Metzgar
*Elected to FA seats on Academic
Policies Council
Steve Abraham
Sue Fettes
*Elected to Non-FA seats on
Academic Policies Council
Paul Tomascak
*Elected to the CLAS Soc. &
Behav. Seat on Priorities and Planning Council
Tom Darvill
*Elected to the Penfield Library
seat on Priorities and Planning Council
Mary Beth Bell
*Elected to the School of Business
seat on Priorities and Planning Council
Dean Crawford
*Elected to the School of Education
seat on Priorities and Planning Council
Dan Tryon
*Elected to the CLAS Nat Sci, Math,
CS seat on General Education Council
Martha Bruch
*Elected to the Penfield Library
seat on the General Education Council
Jim Nichols
*Elected to the School of CM&A
seat on the General Education Council
Arvin Diddy
*Elected to the School of Education
seat on the General Education Council
Dennis Parsons
*Elected to the FA seats on the
Information Technology Council
Scott Roby
Magdalena Mosbo
*Elected to the Non-FA seats on the
Information Technology Council
Eric Tsai
Jonel Langenfeld-Rial
*Elected to the FA seat on the
Graduate Council
Eugenio Basualdo
*Elected to the Non-FA seat on the Graduate
Council
Chuck Spector
Anne Fairbrother
*Elected to the FA seats on the
Library Council
Gwen Kay
Kitty Macey
*Elected to the Non-FA seats on the
Library Council
Karel Kurst-Swanger
Lynn Carlson
*Elected to the FA seat on the
Admissions & Student Services Council
Amy Shore
*Elected to the Non-FA seats on the
Admissions & Student Services Council
Shannon Pritting
*Elected to the Penfield Library
seat on the Undergraduate Curriculum Council
Deborah Curry
*Elected to the School of Business
seat on the Undergraduate Curriculum Council
Hema Rao
*Elected to the School of CM&A
seat on the Undergraduate Curriculum Council
Taejin Jung
*Elected to the School of Education seat on the Undergraduate
Curriculum Council Seat
Thomas Kubicki
*Elected to the FA Seats on the Academic
Outreach Council
Kristen Eichorn
John Huonker
*Elected to the Non-FA seats on the
Academic Outreach Council
Rob Auler
David Valentino
*Elected to the CLAS seat on the
Campus Concept Committee
Uyilawa Usuanlele
*Elected to the School of Education
seat on the Campus Concept Committee
Matt Spindler
*Elected to the School of CM&A
seat on the Campus Concept Committee
Kelly Roe
VI.
Unfinished
Business
There was no unfinished business
VII.
New
Business
There
was no new business
The meeting was adjourned at 4:51 PM.
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