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Chair: Susan Camp
Recorder: Jessica Godkin
Members Absent: C. Clabough, T. Ramalho, W. Silky, C. Mack, P. Cox, M.
Groman, W. Rule, and K. Kurst-Swanger
The
meeting was called to order at 3:05 PM.
I. Approval of Agenda
The agenda was approved unanimously.
II. FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp
The chair invited all committee chairs (Committee on Committees) to report
to the Assembly throughout the semester. S. Camp reported that she and Senator
Peterson went to Plattsburgh for University Faculty Senate April 6 & 7 and
Senator Peterson will be giving a report on April 24th. She also
announced that the Assembly has to elect a new SUNY Oswego Senator. The
Assembly will also have to elect a Faculty Assembly Chair. S. Camp has
been nominated and is willing to serve, but she will be out of the country for
the entire month of October and she encourages others to stand for
election.
III. Reports of Councils, Committees, and
Task Forces
Personnel Policies Council met and revised language for
Amendment to Article I, Section 3a, which was distributed to the
Assembly.
Graduate Council met and approved the inclusion of a
mandated Reporter Training in CPS 509. They also approved a new policy on
changes in course descriptions. They would like all changes in course
descriptions to be submitted to the Council for approval. They are also
asking that new course descriptions be accompanied by the old course
descriptions with the changes highlighted. The Graduate Council will meet
again on April 21.
Undergraduate Curriculum Council (see attached)
Academic Administration Officer Review Task Force
distributed their report to the Assembly.
Academic Quality Committee was formed in the Fall of
2005. Its charge is to identify and deliberate about relevant issues and
advise interested parties regarding strategies, policies, and procedures to
ensure high academic standards. They asked the Assembly to consider
Academic Policy Council's recommendations regarding the Registrar's initiatives
in the direction of integrating prerequisites into Banner and to designate a
seat on the new Task Force on Writing Across the Curriculum for a member of the
Academic Quality Committee in order to facilitate communication and
coordination of efforts.
Employee Assistant Program reviewed a number of services
available to the Faculty and encouraged the Assembly to take advantage of these
services.
Learning Support Services identifies problems and solutions
for students with disabilities. They would like to see more peer tutoring
on campus and encouraged more collaboration and feedback from the
Assembly.
New Faculty Orientation plans faculty orientation and holds
legal issues sessions. This is an open committee that works in
subcommittees.
Oswego Reading Initiative Committee reported that they are
responsible for reading every book that is recommended and narrow the options
down until they agree on one book. They encouraged the faculty to make
recommendations and to join the committee.
Transfer Advisory Committee is an open committee that looks
at different ways to advise transfer students with anything they need.
They have not met much this year because they do not have a Transfer
Coordinator.
Parking Committee makes recommendations regarding the
designations of parking lot space, repairs to parking lots and general
regulations, including amendments and the formation of new regulations.
Public Ceremonies Committee is in charge of the Honors
Convocation and both commencement ceremonies. They strongly encourage
faculty participation in the commencement ceremonies.
Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee encourages
scholarly and creative activity on campus and is the advisory committee to the
administration. They would like the faculty to get students to attend
Quest, nominate colleagues for the President's and Provost's Awards, and to
tell colleagues about SCAC grants.
IV. Unfinished Business
1. The proposed name change of the English Department to the
Department of English and Creative Writing was approved unanimously.
2. The proposed name change to the English-Writing Arts major to the
Creative Writing major was approved unanimously.
3. The proposed Cinema and Screen Studies major was approved
unanimously.
4. The proposed revisions to the Communications minor was approved
unanimously.
5. The proposed revisions to the Communications major were approved
unanimously.
6. The proposed by-law amendment changes to Article 1, Section 3a were
approved unanimously.
Key: Old
language is in regular
font. New
language is in Italics.
ARTICLE XII
COUNCILS OF THE ASSEMBLY
Section 4.
Composition
of Memberships
Ex-Officio and other Non-Voting
Members
One or more ex-officio or other non-voting members as described
hereinafter. All ex-officio, liaison, honorary or other non-faculty
shall be eligible to participate fully in any council or committee, except for
the right to cast a vote.
Article I FACULTY
MEMBERSHIP AND VOTING
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Section 3. Definition of Qualified Voting Faculty
a) Members of the academic staff who have been employed on a
part-time basis for six consecutive semesters in a position designated as being
in the Professional Services Negotiating Unit and who have been granted a term
appointment with qualified academic rank.
b) Members of the academic staff who have been employed on a
full-time temporary basis for six consecutive semesters in a position
designated as being in the Professional Services Negotiating Unit and who have
been granted qualified academic rank.
c) Individuals with qualified voting faculty status may
participate as voting faculty would in all aspects of department and
College-wide governance except on committees which make personnel
recommendations (e.g., term and continuing appointment, chair review and
search, peer review, academic administrative officer review or search, Faculty
Assembly chair election, etc.).
d) Individuals with qualified voting faculty status must be
reviewed using the evaluation procedures contained in these
Bylaws.
Qualified voting faculty status ceases at the first non-reappointment to
another semester of service. Individuals in paragraph a) above have
qualified voting faculty status once they again receive a term appointment with
qualified academic rank. Individuals in paragraph b) above have qualified
voting faculty status once they again receive qualified academic rank.
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Section 3. Definition of Faculty with Limited Voting Status
Limited voting status shall be granted to those faculty
who meet one of the following criteria:
Members of the academic staff who have been employed on a part-time basis
for six (6) consecutive semesters in a position designated as being in the
Professional Services Negotiating Unit and who have been granted a term
appointment.
Members of the academic staff who have qualified academic rank as defined by
the Policies of the Board of Trustees and who have been employed on a
full-time basis for six (6) consecutive semesters in a position designated as
being in the Professional Services Negotiating Unit.
Faculty with limited voting status shall be eligible to participate in
governance processes and to be governed by relevant policies as delineated
below:
Faculty with limited voting status may participate as voting faculty in all
aspects of department and College-wide governance except on committees that
make personnel recommendations (e.g., term and continuing appointment, chair
review and search, peer review, academic administrative officer review or
search, Faculty Assembly chair election, etc.).
Faculty with limited voting status must be reviewed using the evaluation
procedures contained in these By-Laws.
Limited voting status ceases at the first non-reappointment to another
semester of service. Faculty in paragraph a) i above have limited voting
status once they again receive a term appointment. Faculty in paragraph
a) ii above have limited voting status once they again receive qualified
academic rank.
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V. New Business
There was no new business.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:02 PM.
Undergraduate Curriculum Council
Report to Faculty Assembly
April 10, 2006
Developed by Pat Russo; Reported by Frank Byrne
On Wednesday April 5, 2006, the UCC reviewed and approved the
remaining 6 course proposals on our list.
New Courses Approved (total 4)
Bio 460 Conservation Biology
Isc 355 Knowledge Representation and Intelligent Systems
ISC 370 Issues in Human-Computer Interaction
Isc 496 Information Science Capstone Seminar
Existing Course Updates/Changes Approved (total 2)
Com 370 Persuasion and Social Movements
Soc 367 Globalization and Poverty
Pending Courses
Two new course proposals have been received since our meeting last week.
UCC Web Site: The spreadsheet for all courses (including
existing course updates and new courses) reviewed by UCC in 2005-06 is
available on the UCC web site: www.oswego.edu/ucc
Meetings for Spring 2006—Our last meeting for Spring 2006
will occur on Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 1:45-3:15 pm, in Wilber Hall. We
will not be meeting on QUEST day April 19.
In appreciation—We bid fond farewell, and much appreciation
to the dedicated work of Said Atri (Economics) and Elaine Wenderholm (Computer
Science) for two years of service on UCC.
Membership for 2006—The following people are planning to
serve the second of their two-year terms: Frank Byrne, Humanities; Tom
Kubicki, Education; Hema Rao, Business; Helen Zakin. In addition, we have
asked Mary Loe from Penfield Library to participate as an invited guest for
2006-07 in order to maintain a close communication link with our colleagues in
the Library.
We need representatives from the Social Sciences sub-division and the
Natural Sciences sub-division to seek election for a two-year term on UCC
(2006-07 and 2007-08). Elections for UCC occur in the Fall semester.
Meetings for Fall 2006—We have set a tentative meeting
schedule for alternate Wednesdays (prior to Faculty Assembly meetings the
following Monday) from 1:30-3:00 pm. We will finalize this schedule once
we have received the FA meeting schedule and filled the vacancies.
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