J. Hildreth began by thanking the Faculty Assembly for the opportunity to speak. He spoke about the divisions between the Board of Trustees and the Faculty Senate. He supported the vote of no confidence regarding the imposition of the Trustees' SUNY General Education Program. The Senate was not opposed to talking about the General Education program, but were opposed to the process that occurred. There has been virtually no interaction between the trustees and the senate since the vote. He was very pleased at the Faculty Senate meeting at SUNY Purchase last week, Vice Chair of the Trustees, Randy Daniels, spoke to the Senate. A very encouraging and frank discussion occurred; he is very supportive of the role of faculty in SUNY.

There are some System initiatives that J. Hildreth said are either in process or soon will be implemented. The New Vision for Teacher Education program has been implemented, and has been progressing nicely. This program increases the content area requirements for teacher education programs.

GEAR is an advisory group from the Provost's office that is looking at campus plans for General Education Assessment; right now 57 campuses need to have plans, and 24 have been approved. The GEAR group consists mostly of faculty, more then 50 percent.

Currently, all new General Education course offering are sent to the SUNY Provost's office for review; the Faculty Senate is opposed to this process. The beginning of a new process will start with the formation of ACGE (Advisory Committee on General Education), which will be composed of mainly faculty. There have been many hours of debate regarding this issue. The Senate is hopeful that eventually less then 1% of new General Education courses will be reviewed by ACGE.

A new task force is being formed, the Provost's Task Force on Faculty Development. It will examine and discuss a broad range of issues, including support for improving teaching skills, research support, etc.

One system initiative that hasn't materialized yet is the proposed System Wide Assessment Plan. It is an understatement to say that if it weren't for the Faculty Senate you would have a System Wide Assessment Test on General Education. It has been strongly opposed by the Senate.

J. Grant began by saying that demographics alone don't drive enrollment at colleges. Enrollment at SUNY Oswego increased more rapidly this year than expected, due to increased retention. The number of full time students also increased faster than expected. The minority enrollment has increased, and we hope to get the Hispanic student enrollment to increase as much as the African American and Asian American enrollment has increased. There is also a continuing effort to increase student enrollment from outside New York State; this number has gone down since 1998 because there was a lack of recruiting resources.

Selectivity continues to improve. There has been an increase in the top 20% due to increased merit scholarships and a big decrease in groups four and five, the lowest selectivity groups. There were questions regarding gender differences in enrollment and scholarship standards. Finally, there was discussion regarding the increased enrollment of on campus students, even though there doesn't seem to be sufficient residence hall rooms for the number of students. J. Grant believes that by January, most triple rooms will hopefully become double rooms again as some resident students graduate.

N. Lyon began by stating that his report is a little premature because little is known about the state budget situation before the elections. He will have more information once the election is over. It was mainly a question and answer session.

The Budget Allocation Process (BAP) is the funding methodology SUNY uses. It is an enrollment-based model with a 12 cell matrix of weighted averages. The funding for more technical programs is higher right now; an increased technology fee will help address some increased costs on our campus.

He also discussed last year's state budget support, the early retirement program, the workforce reduction plan, and the current budget.

E. O'Shea mentioned several items from the SUNY Faculty Senate meeting last week in Purchase. He reviewed the presentation of SUNY Trustee Randall Daniels, along with the presentation by Chancellor King. He also mentioned the report given by Maureen Dolan about the SUNY Campus Budget Processes. There was considerable discussion about PACGE becoming ACGE, and the Senate's Rational Fiscal Policy task force study that is in progress.

D. King began his report by mentioning the Potassium Iodide distribution plan for our campus (see attached handout).

The AACSB team is now on campus to review the School of Business; they will be here until Wednesday, October 23rd. The School of Business self-study report is on reserve in Penfield Library at the circulation desk.

The SEFA/United Way campaign is underway, a packet of information and a pledge card should have reached all faculty by now. If you have not received any information please contact your building coordinator or Howard Gordon. SUNY Oswego is near the bottom level in giving; please make a pledge. Also remind your colleagues at a department meeting.

The Capital Campaign for SUNY Oswego is underway trying to reach a 17 million-dollar goal. This is the "quiet" phase in which they are focusing on large donors at this point. The development office would like the assistance of faculty and staff to identify potential alumnae donors and others who might be interested in supporting specific building or renovation projects, endowment, scholarships, professorships, programs, etc.

D. King met with the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and said that their procedures and the 1989 charge to the UCC from Faculty Assembly are going to be revised to try to streamline and update the process. Recommendations should be sent to Academic Policies Council and Joyce Smith. Assembly members are encouraged to do the same thing.

Priorities and Planning Council has proposed Bylaw amendments dealing with student representation, the Academic Outreach Council, the Academic Support Council, and the Undergraduate Curriculum Council. The Assembly members were urged to attend the next FA meeting on November 4th; we require a 2/3 majority of the total membership to approve Bylaw amendments.

Academic Policies Council met October 18th with J. Nichols, the chair of Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and discussed proposed changes to the course proposal form. Also, they voted in support of the proposal from the Earth Sciences department to suspend the Marine Science minor.

Information Technology Council met October 13th and met with representatives of CTAB committee. They are about to be given a task by CTO, M. Schoeler, related to developing a policy for student use of information technology on campus.

Continuing Education Council met October 18th; Peggy Martin was elected reporter and Florence Kirk was elected recorder. A chair has not been elected yet.

1. Distribution of proposed Bylaw amendments from Personnel Policies Council - The proposed Bylaw amendments we distributed and have been put on the agenda for the next FA meeting, 11/4/02.