SUNY Oswego - Faculty Assembly: Minutes 12/03/01

December 3, 2001

Members Absent: W. Silky, B. Schaber

Meeting was called to order at 3:10 PM.

I. Approval of Agenda

The proposed change in Anthropology major and minor was moved to the first item under Unfinished Business. The Agenda was approved unanimously.

II. Approval of FA minutes for November 5, 2001

The minutes were approved unanimously.

III. FA Chair's Report - D. King

D. King began by mentioning that many of the student seats are now filled on Faculty Assembly councils. He urged the FA councils and members to be more supportive of the Student Association. He also suggested that student representatives could possibly be added to the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and the Board of General Education.

The issue of declining State funding for SUNY and the possibility of a tuition increase were brought up as major agenda items for the January Faculty Senate Plenary meeting at Binghamton. A copy of a draft resolution on State funding and tuition policy for SUNY was distributed.

A complaint regarding the discontinuation of paper distribution of copies of FA minutes was noted. A faculty member claimed that discontinuing the paper copies is unfair to people with disabilities and adjunct professors. The whole matter was referred to Personnel Policies Council for review.

The General Education Assessment Plan will be on the FA agenda by early February for action. The Middle States draft report will also be distributed and FA Councils should review and comment on it in February.

The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee elected new co-chairs, Sewall Oertling and Jim Nichols. The committee will also be working with Bill Bosch in setting up a webpage with procedures, format for course proposals, and a web-based spreadsheet.

D. King closed by mentioning the next Faculty Assembly meeting will be on February 4, 2002.

IV. Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

A. The Graduate Council met on November 30th. They discussed and passed course proposal MBA 580. They also discussed CAS 544, Ivan Brady will meet with the council to discuss it in further detail. The Graduate Council they discussed the issue of the "In Progress"grading proposal. S. Atri, the chair, is going to draft something to address this matter for graduate students.

B. Priorities and Planning met twice during November. On the 9th Linda Markert gave a report on NCATE and enrollment in the School of Education. They also discussed a routing sheet for new programs. On the 30th they discussed the new BFA program which was approved.

C. Summer Session/Continuing Education met on November 30th and discussed whether the distance learning ad hoc committee should be folded into the council. They agreed unanimously that it should be.

D. Presidential Review Committee met last week. All the surveys are in and entered into the computer database. This week 3 people will audit the survey results and the committee will begin to write a summary report for the Presidential evaluation team.

V. Unfinished Business

1. Proposed change in Anthropology major and minor

There was discussion regarding the Anthropology major and minor. The Anthropology major was approved with only one abstention, and the minor was approved unanimously (see attached proposal).

2. Consideration and voting on Faculty Bylaw Amendments - new Article XIX.

The proposed article 19 was discussed (see attached handout). Before any voting on the actual amendment took place, the Assembly decided to separate parts d, e, f, and g under Section3.

Section 3, part D was discussed and voted on. It passed with a vote of 36 approved, 1 opposed, and 3 abstentions.

A "friendly amendment" was made to Section 3, part F to change the wording to "be responsible for receiving and raising." This passed with a vote of 38 approved, 0 opposed, and 5 abstentions. Section 3, part F to delete "evaluations and" was discussed and voted on. It did not pass with a vote of 4 approved, 24 opposed, and 4 abstentions.

Section 3, part G was discussed and voted on. It passed with a vote of 31 approved, 1 opposed, and 7 abstentions.

Meeting was adjourned at 5 PM.