SUNY Oswego - Faculty Assembly: Minutes 03/22/04

March 22, 2004

Members Absent: V. MacEntee

The meeting was called to order at 3:09 PM.

Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved unanimously.

II. Approval of Minutes

Minutes from February 16th, 2004 were approved unanimously.

III. FA Chair's Report- S. Camp

The Chair had no information to report at this time.

IV. Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

Admissions and Student Services met Thursday, March 11th. They have been discussing ways to get both students and faculty more involved in the Campus community.

Academic Policies Council met Friday, March 5th and recommended the approval of the proposed changes in the following:

1. Global and International Studies Minor

2. Journalism Major and Minor

3. College Policy on Cheating and Plagiarism (the College Policy on Intellectual Integrity)

APC will meet again on Friday, April 2nd.

Undergraduate Curriculum Council met Friday, March 12th and approved the following new courses:

FRE 310 Business French

GER 140 German Castles: Customs and Culture

HIS 302 Historiography: Perspectives on Historians and Histories

POL 496 Capstone Seminar

SPA 310 Business Spanish

General Education Council developed math alternatives for students with documented math disabilities. They also approved Writing Plan for Cognitive Science and the following courses:

PBJ 463 American Indian Law and Federal Policy (Human

Diversity--Non-Western Civilization)

HRM 462 Employment Law (Human Diversity--Tolerance and Intolerance in U.S.)

BIO 400 Current Issues in Environmental and Population Biology (Intellectual Issues-- Explorations in the Natural Sciences)

POL 327 AFRICAN POLITICS (Human Diversity-- Non-Western

Civilization)

Approved the following Honors Program Equivalencies for various General Education categories:

ENG 204 WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE (Writing)

HON140, HON141, HON150, ENG204 (Critical Thinking "infused")

MAT 202 (Mathematics, Provisionally approved pending review of final

course outline)

Two 4-Credit Lab Courses in same discipline (Natural Sciences)

HON 200 Basic Concepts in the Social Sciences (Social & Behavioral Sciences 3 of 6 required hours)

HON141 American Intellectual Heritage (American History)

HON140 Western Intellectual Heritage (Western Divination)

HON 300 Natural Science in the Human Context (Intellectual

Issues--Explorations in the Natural Sciences)

HON 301 In Search of Meaning (Intellectual Issues--Self & Society)

IV. Unfinished Business

1. Information Technology By-laws amendment Article XVIII was approved unanimously.

2. Play Therapy new certificate program was approved unanimously.

3. The College Hour proposal was split into two parts- (1) the concept of instituting the College Hour at SUNY Oswego and (2) new class times schedule with the College Hour. The first part, the concept of instituting the College Hour at SUNY Oswego was then approved 33-8. A proposal to amend the second proposal was then made stating "in the redesigned calendar there will only be as many classes per semester as it takes to reach, without rounding error, the 750 minutes required for one credit hour." The amendment failed 17-23. The second proposal was then voted on as printed in Appendix B and failed 15-26. A motion was then made to refer the concept of instituting the College Hour to a task force. That motion was amended by adding that the task force must report back to the Assembly no later than September 30th, 2004 and this amended motion was then approved. The proposal to refer the matter of the concept of instituting the College Hour at SUNY Oswego to a task force that must report back to the Assembly no later than September 30, 2004 was then approved 37-1.

V. New Business

There was no new business.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:49 PM.