SUNY Oswego - Faculty Assembly: Minutes 10/08/01

October 8, 2001

Members Absent: J. LeFlore, L. Fuller, W. Silky, K. Macey

Meeting was called to order at 3:10 PM.

I. Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved after adding a vacancy to the Summer Session/Cont. Ed. Council.

II. Approval of FA minutes for September 17, 2001

The minutes were approved unanimously.

III. FA Chair's Report — D. King

D. King made a brief statement regarding the Presidential Review Committee Ballot memo from Personnel Policies Committee (see attached memo). He is still unsure when the presidential review will take place.

IV. Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

Academic Policies Council met on September 28th and plans on meeting again on October 19th. They elected Joyce Smith as the chair and Cheryl Kaus as the reporter. They approved the administrative course withdrawal amendment (see attached statement).

Task Force on Academic Quality met September 27th. Lanny Karns was present and they discussed how the School of Business is handling assessment. They are looking into have the School of Education and Arts and Sciences participate as well.

Computing Services Council met and elected Barbara St. Michel as the chair and Larry Fuller as the reporter.

Library Council will be meeting on October 16th.

Campus Concept Committee met on October 8th to discuss the newsletter. They plan on meeting weekly.

V. Unfinished Business

1. Vacancies on other Councils and Committees

A — Priorities and Planning Council Business representative elected was Dean Crawford (AFL).

B - Student Services Council elected Hema Rao (AFL).

C — Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Education representative elected was Audrey Hurley, one position for an Education representative is still available.

D — Summer Session representative elected was Fritz Messere (Com St.).

E — Professional Development Committee professional staff representative elected was R. Walsh.

2. Consideration and voting on Faculty Bylaw Amendments

Sue Fettes and other members of the Personnel Policies Council reviewed the status of the Faculty Bylaw amendment process at the end of the Spring '01 semester. The proposed amendment of Article XVI, "The Assembly Executive Board", was then considered. A number of issues were discussed. The amendment as proposed by PPC was slightly modified by a few friendly amendments from the floor. In section 1 - c, the words "either regularly or occasionally" were deleted. In section 2 - a, the second sentence should read "This Board shall advise the Chair of the Assembly on matters of faculty governance and relations with the Administration, and on matters concerning the implementation of initiatives and programs." In section 3 - a and b, delete the words "Advisory Council". Article XVI on the Assembly Executive Board was then adopted as amended by a vote of 37 approved, 0 opposed and 3 abstaining.

VI. New Business

1. Proposed policy change on incomplete grades. There was much discussion regarding this policy (see attached policy). It was sent back to Academic Policies Council in light of all the suggestions made by the Faculty Assembly.

The meeting was adjourned at 5 PM.