The meeting was called to order at 3:15 p.m.

S. Camp proposed that a short report from Provost D. King be added to the agenda. It was also proposed that calendar revisions and "add" date change be added to Unfinished Business along with information from Mary Schoeler. The agenda was approved unanimously.

S. Camp established a list serve for FA representatives and alternates. Jessica will be subscribing members via majordomo. If you would like to use a username other than your Oswego username please let her know.

All approved FA minutes are now on the web page. Please access the FA web site to review what is posted and to identify any errors or omissions. <http://www.oswego.edu/other_campus/assembly/bylaws/FA_New_Bylaws-Revised.htm>

S. Camp also reported that the University Faculty Senate Fall Plenary was well attended. The yellow two-sided sheet contains the FS resolution that was presented to the BOT on October 27.

Interim Provost David King reported on the status of the SUNY-wide, value-added, general education assessment plan mandated by the SUNY Board of Trustees. Representatives of the SUNY Faculty Senate and the Faculty Council of Community Colleges have been meeting in recent months with representatives of SUNY Provost Salins’ office to draft an MOU that would establish procedures for implementing the system wide assessment mandate.

To date the SUNY Faculty Senate, the Faculty Council of Community Colleges and fifteen of the four-year college Faculty Senates have voted against both the Trustees’ resolution and the MOU.

At the SUNY Chief Academic Officers meeting last week, Provost Salins said that he and the Trustees agreed to table the matter for the time being to allow further discussions to occur. The outcome of this process is not clear at this point. The idea is certainly not dead

L. Peterson noted that Oswego received much praise for hosting the Fall Plenary session of SUNY Faculty Senate, held Oct. 23-25. Thanks to the efforts of many staff, faculty and students, the sessions, accommodations, meals and programs came off flawlessly.

The main issue of the plenary was faculty response to a Board of Trustees resolution to institute a system wide program of value added assessment. A professor from Truman State University, Dr. Candace Young, spoke on their very positive experience of assessment, and plenary sessions focused on the Trustees' resolution and a Memorandum of Understanding, drawn up beforehand by a committee of the Senate. In the end a resolution was passed overwhelmingly, affirming faculty commitment to assessment and willingness to participate in further discussions on assessment, requesting that the Board of Trustees suspend implementation of their resolution in order to engage in dialogue among all parties about "University-wide campus-based assessment." The MOU was also not supported. Copies of the Faculty Senate resolution were distributed to the members of Faculty Assembly.

Academic Policies Council met on Friday, October 31 and approved a revised Anthropology major and revised Anthropology minor. They also approved a revised Biocultural Anthropology minor. APC will meet again on November 7.

General Education Council met on October 20 and approved the following courses:

1. Courses offered by Huron University in London in various categories of Knowledge Foundations and Human Diversity-Non-Western Civilizations

2. PHL450- Medical Ethics for Intellectual Issues- Self & Society

3. EDU301- School, Pedagogy and Social Justice for Intellectual Issues- Self & Society

4. GER140- German Castles, Customs and Culture for Humanities

Library Council met Tuesday, October 21, and elected Carol Kurtzswanger as chair and Larry Fuller as reporter. They toured the new cafe and discussed journal acquisitions, wireless/networking upgrades and second floor renovations.

Provost Search Committee has received over eighty applications for the Provost position. They will spend the next three weeks selecting 8-12 of those applicants who will then be invited for airport interviews in early December. Many of the applicants are currently deans or associate provosts and geographically they are quite dispersed. The committee is pleased by the range of experience, commitment to scholarship and creative activities and academic vision in the applicant pool.

Graduate Council met October 24 and approved the following courses:

ADO 510 Discipline Specific Methods: English/Language Arts Grade 7-12

ADO 513 Field Experience III: English Language Arts Practicum Grades 7-12 ADO 520 Discipline Specific Methods: Second Language Acquisition/Modern

ADO 523 Field Experience III: Discipline Specific Second Language Acquisition/Modern Language Practicum