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Members Absent: J. LeFlore, C. Seekamp, M. Stuck, K. Macey, Meeting called to order at 3:12 PM
The agenda was approved. Action on these minutes was deferred until the next Faculty Assembly Meeting. Provost Presley began by mentioning some new technical advances in delivering part of Oswego’s curriculum. All the services are in place and have been tested for MBA courses to be offered via interactive television. Many MBA courses are already up on the Web, so this affords Oswego a lot of flexibility to televise these courses to off-campus sites such as Fort Drum. The Broadcasting Major is up on the Web for beginning students. Last semester 249 students were enrolled in SUNY learning network courses offered by Oswego State, and that was with about 15 courses. This spring we should have about 25 courses on the Web. Also, Penfield Library is a hub for the SUNY Connect Project, 1 of 6 hubs; this network will give students instantaneous virtual access to many other SUNY libraries and 2 day physical access to books from other SUNY libraries. The new First Year Advising Program has been going on successfully for a semester now, and is seeking to gather suggestions for improvement. This may be one of the reasons why the figures for Academic Disqualification and Academic Warning are significantly lower than for last semester. On February 8th, J. Presley will be meeting with the Committee on Learning and Teaching to talk about their role with strategic planning. The School of Business is considering phasing in a laptop requirement for MBA students. J. Presley’s activity on the SUNY Provost’s Advisory Council on Teacher Education is continuing; the Council’s report has been submitted to the SUNY Provost. Some recommendations are to coordinate NCATE standards and those of the State Department of Education for all the campuses that provide teacher education programs, including Oswego State. They will present some other recommendations related to teacher education. The Middle States review process is on track; the design of the self-study was approved by Middle States. There are 9 working groups making very good progress to date. There are some rolling deadlines in March and April for the first drafts of the work group section reports. Eventually they will be presented to the whole campus for review. Also, the AACSB accreditation review of programs for the School of Business is on track and likely to meet every criterion. There will be an April 2001 visit from the NCATE accreditation review team to the School of education; Eileen Trainer will lead it. Good progress has been made in meeting the goals established for the NCATE review process. Please see attached report G. Auleta addressed the SUNY budget. His figures regarding the amount of money allocated were different from those mentioned in the Faculty Senator’s report by about 55 million dollars, but the net effect is still a zero increase in allocations to SUNY campuses. The amount funded for the hospital deficit is about 325 million dollars to be paid off within the next seven years. There was a Legislative reception held in Albany on Monday, January 29; he was heading there that evening to support the UUP lobbying effort. He has received many comments and email regarding parking. That will continue to be an issue, and he will address the matter in labor management meetings. D. King started by mentioning the appointment of a new clerk, Tricia Perfetti. He also mentioned that he would be meeting with Bill Bosch to format the web page for Faulty Assembly. Once the web page is up and running, the FA minutes, membership lists, council lists, and other important documents will be posted there. He stated that if there are vacancies on FA Councils, they should be reported to him sometime this week so he can place them on the agenda for elections at the 2/12 FA meeting. There are major agenda items for this semester. One is that at the next FA meeting, February 12th, the President will report on the Memorandum of Understanding, Strategic Planning, the SUNY budget, etc. Later in the semester, Vice Presidents Joe Grant and Jerry Desantis may come in to speak about several different issues. There will also be the revision and re-registration of the School of Education graduate programs; they will be reviewed by FA before the April deadline. The President has approved the following FA resolutions from last semester:
About 8 — 10 names have been submitted to date for the Task Force on Academic Quality and Expectations. If you want to serve or nominate someone, please email D. King at dking@oswego.edu. Also, N. Weiner from the Honors Board contacted D. King to solicit volunteers to serve on the Honors Board. It is not an elected Assembly body, but an advisory body to the Director of the College Honors Program. The ROTC unit at Syracuse University has requested permission to offer a couple of classes on our campus. Last summer the National Guard requested permission to set up a center on the campus, but we found this to be inappropriate. D. King discussed the ROTC request with the President and VP J. Grant, but he felt he couldn’t act unilaterally. One suggestion would be to create an ad hoc committee to explain the issue and make a recommendation to the Faculty Assembly. The issue will be placed on the next FA agenda. He also attended the Senate meeting along with 20 other campus governance leaders. A good deal of time was spent on General Education and the Trustee’s mandates, and the problems that they have caused. Also discussed at length was the role of PACGE (SUNY Provosts Advisory Council on General Education). There has been considerable concern that this process is an encroachment on traditional faculty and local campus prerogatives. The issues are still being discussed and it is not clear what will happen. The resolution from Stony Brook will be put on the agenda for the next meeting. It requests that PACGE engage in only generalized programmatic review, not review of individual courses. Stony brook has had trouble with the Trustee’s Gen. Ed. standards because they refuse to cooperate; their president has been reprimanded by the Trustee chair of the Standard’s Committee, Dr. Candace deRussy. The "Safe Haven" documentary is on CBS February 11th through the 14th, it is a four part mini series. Volunteers are needed for the fundraising phone bank.
A. Graduate Council met on January 26th and approved the following courses: CPS 531 — The History and Practice of Student Affairs CPS 532 — Student Development in a College Environment CPS 307 — Trends and Issues in Higher Education Three new program proposals are being reviewed: Graduate Certificate in Childhood Education (grade 1 through 6) Childhood Special Education Graduate Certificate in Adolescent Education (grade 7 through 12) Also, Dean Naryan sent a memo on January 9th regarding undergraduate final exam scheduling. The policy does not apply to graduate programs, so technically those final exams can be held at any time, not just during finals week.
EDU 200 — Critical Thinking in Schools, Homes and Communities (approved on December 12th) PSY 342 — Violence in Contemporary Society (approved on January 25th)
There were no nominations. 1. Bylaw amendments proposed by Personnel Policies Council — W. Opello and D. King reviewed the procedures to be used in guiding the debate and voting. (Procedures are attached) There was also some discussion about the evolution of the Bylaw amendment process and the role of the Ad Hoc governance committee. The meeting was adjourned at 5:02 PM |
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