SUNY Oswego - Faculty Assembly: Minutes 02/26/01

February 26, 2001

Members Absent: M. Thomas, Z. Bedy, L. Tinelli Shieve, K. Macey, J. DeSantis, J. Scharfenberger, G. Auleta

Meeting called to order at 3:10 PM

I. Approval of Agenda

There were some changes to the agenda under unfinished business. There was a request to delete the election to fill a vacancy on the Distance Learning Committee because it will be dealt with under the Bylaw changes. The three Graduate Certification proposals were deferred to next week or the week after. These changes to the agenda were passed.

II. Approval of FA minutes for Jan. 29, 2001

Action on these minutes was deferred until the next Faculty Assembly Meeting.

Middle States Report — D. Deal

(See attached report)

FA Chair’s Report — D. King

D. King started by mentioning the Faculty Assembly web page, which is now up and running. He thanked Bill Bosch for all his work on the web page.

The next few FA meetings will include the revisions to the Music, Biology, Zoology, and Education graduate programs.

He reminded the Faculty Assembly that there is an extra meeting this month on March 5th, which will allow more time to focus on the Bylaw debate.

He reminded the FA members that if they are proposing substantive changes to the Bylaws (more then a few words), that they should distribute printed copies of their proposed amendment for the members to read at the meeting.

The Middle States workgroup on organization, administration, and governance does have a series of questions posted on the web addressed to the entire campus community. Please respond to the survey questions when you can.

The Stony Brook resolution on general education, and Provost Salins’ Advisory Council on general education (PACGE), were approved. These resolutions made it known that SUNY campuses want a stronger faculty voice in the general education review process.

The Campus Concept Committee has organized a steering committee on the new campus center with about a dozen people. They will be meeting with the architect who will interview many different constituencies on campus as they work to complete a program study and their design ideas for our new Student Union/Campus Center.

Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

A. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee has approved 18 courses over the last two weeks.

Courses approved 2/15/01

ECO 326: History of American Economic Before 1900

ECO 383: Economics of Baseball

Courses approved 2/22/01

ART 207: Intro to Computer Graphic Imagery

ART 307: Intro to Graphic Design

ART 308: Graphic Design I

ART 309: Multimedia I

ART 313: Digital Illustration I

ART 317: Web Design I

ART 408: Graphic Design II

ART 409: Multimedia II

ART 413: Digital Illustration II

ART 414: Advanced Problems in Graphic Design

ART 417: Web Design II

Course Number Change Approved 2/22/01

CHE 334L: Advanced Chem Lab changed to

CHE 434L: Advanced Chem Lab

The UCC also thanked John Presley for his support in maintaining the continuity of the review process.

The Admissions Council met on 2/26/01 and would like to remind everyone that faculty calling is scheduled for the month of March, so please help out and respond. Also, there is the transfer open house on April 7th and an all college open house on April 9th, please help with those as well.
The Board of General Education met on February 20th and reviewed the writing plan for the Cognitive Science Program. The Biology 200 program was reviewed and discussed.
The Graduate Council passed the undergraduate final exam schedule proposal. The policy does not apply to graduate programs, so technically those final exams can be held at any time, not just during finals week. Copies of this will be distributed to the FA Assembly to be voted on.
Priorities and Planning met with W. Gruska to talk about the plan for replacement of faculty computers. They also approved the graduate Special Education program. The other two graduate program proposals have been looked at, have not yet been voted on.

Unfinished Business

There are two vacancies that have yet to be filled on Priorities and Planning Council. There were no nominations at this time. The Business representative only needs to serve for the rest of the spring 2001 semester.

Amendments to the Faculty Bylaws-

There was a discussion of the issues related to the structure of governance focusing on the relationship of the Councils of the Assembly. Concerns were expressed about the need for greater communication about issues that transcend the purview of any one council. C. Groci proposed a tiered structure of coordinating committees made up of representatives of each council. Personnel Policies Council proposed meetings of chairs of the academic councils at least once each semester to improve communication and coordination. D. Hill proposed a more structured approach to coordination among academic councils. These positions will be presented in more detail at our next meeting.

VII. New Business

There was no new business.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:55 PM.