Members Absent: J. LeFlore, M. Thomas, J. Brunson, P. Cox, A. Hurley, W. Silky, S. Preston, D. Baer, J. Chambers, M. Kanick, J. Turbeville, T. Barnhart, B. Randolph, K. Reed, K. Macey, E. Basualdo

Meeting was called to order at 3:20 PM.

I. Approval of Agenda

There was one change on the agenda. The General Assessment Plan was removed under New Business. The agenda was approved unanimously.

II. Distribution of FA minutes for December 3, 2001

The December 3rd minutes were distributed. These minutes and the November 19, 2001 minutes will be voted on at the next FA meeting.

III. Faculty Senator's Report - E. O'Shea

Please see attached report.

IV. Reports on Middle States and Gen. Ed. Assessment - D. Deal

D. Deal spoke about both the Middle States Report and the General Education Assessment plan.

The Middle States draft report can be viewed on-line at <oswegohomepage/faculty+staff/officalinfo/reportofmiddlestates...>. The draft is on-line, but will also be distributed in hard copy to each department in case you have trouble with the on-line version, and it will be on reserve in the library. You can write comments on the site, through email, through written letters, etc. This will help to bring the Middle States Report to closure(please see attached email printout). All F.A. Councils are asked to review sections of the Middle States Report that are relevant to their area(s) of responsibility, and make comments to the web site or to Doug Deal before February 15th.

The General Education Assessment Plan is campus based (please see attached plan). The plan is presently being reviewed by Academic Policies Council and Priorities and Planning Council. Copies of the draft plan were distributed for information only, until the plan is reported out by these councils for final action by the Assembly on February 18th or 25th.

V. FA Chair's Report - D. King

D. King began by giving a brief update on the budget. The governors budget includes no allocation for negotiated salary increases, enrollment increases, new programs or inflation (please see attached bar graph).

He spoke with M. O'Dwyer, the Assistant Chancellor, on Friday regarding the Presidential Review process. The Chancellor's office apologized for the delay in Presidential reviews this year. The emergency matters related to September 11th, other SUNY presidential vacancies and searches, and the concerns regarding the next SUNY budget has put the Chancellor's office behind schedule. At this time, M. O'Dwyer expects our campus visit to be scheduled about mid April, after the Middle States team is here (April 7th -10th). D. King told her that the survey process here had gone well and the committee was still working on its report. She wants the Presidential Review Committee Report and raw data from the survey sent to the Chancellor's office by mid March at the latest. The Presidential Review Committee plans to meet that deadline.

There was a reminder that a General Faculty Meeting is scheduled for February 25th at 4:30 PM in 105 Lanigan. All our encouraged to attend. The President will present a report and we will vote on several Bylaw amendments.

Lastly, there are faculty vacancies on the Parking Committee. If you are interested please let him know and he will forward your name to Tom Ryan.

VI. Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

A. The Graduate Council met on December 7th and a new IP (In Progress) grading policy was drafted; it will be distributed to FA and then voted on. They approved MBA 580: Entrepreneurship, and CAS 444/544. They also met on February 1st and approved the following courses to the catalog: MBA 580, MBA 516, MBA 506, MBA 507, MBA 550, and MBA 517. The council approved the renumbering of the following Vocational Teacher Preparation courses:

From VTP 500 to VTP 507

From VTP 520 to VTP 509

From VTP 530 to VTP 512

From VTP 540 to VTP 513

From VTP 550 to VTP 514

From VTP 560 to VTP 544

From VTP 570 to VTP 545

Also, the Council approved the changes in the catalogue regarding application due date and procedures for the MA program in History.

B. Priorities and Planning met on January 31st to organize for the semester. B. Beyerbach is chair this semester while A. Stamm is on sabbatical.

C. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee met on January 23rd and approved CAS 444. They also approved of the course number change of BRC 320 to BRC 301.

D. Academic Policies met on February 1st and approved changes in the Chemistry BA and BS programs (see attached).

E. Campus Concept Committee met on February 4th and discussed concerns about the parking situation. They also discussed Cannon Architect's design for the new Campus Center.

VII. Unfinished Business

1. Vacancies on FA Councils: D. King reminded everyone that there is one position available on both the Personnel Policies and Academic Policies Councils because A. Stamm (Natural Sciences rep on P+PC) and L. Peterson (Humanities rep on APC) are on sabbatical for one semester. Please nominate someone for these positions.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:50 PM.