Members Absent: L. Tinelli Sheive, J. Alessia, J. Shallit, C. Seekamp, J. DeSantis, J. Scharfenberger, M.F. Stuck

Meeting called to order at 3:10 PM.

I. Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved unanimously.

II. Approval of FA minutes for April 2, 2001

The minutes were approved unanimously.

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

See attached report.

IV. FA Chair's Report — D. King

D. King began by paying tribute to Paul Liebenaur and presenting him with a certificate for his many years of dedicated service to Faculty Assembly as a member, vice chair, and chair of Personnel Policies Council.

D. King encouraged colleagues to send their names forward to Walter Opello to serve on FA councils next year. They are looking for non-FA members of voting faculty and professional staff. The deadline for recruitment is on May 4th.

The schedule for FA and FAAC meetings for Fall 2001 will be distributed soon via campus mail.

There is a SUNY Assessment Conference in Syracuse, June 4th —5th. This conference will help to address ways to develop campus-based assessment plans. D. Deal will attend as Dir. of General Education and as coordinator of our General Education assessment plan. D. Deal is trying to recruit faculty members from the General Education board, if no on is able to attend then Dean Varhus will most likely go along with him. Any assessment plan for Oswego's General Education program will be developed by the General Education Board and submitted to APC and FA for approval.

The SUNY Faculty Senate is soliciting nominations or self-nominations for the standing committees of the SUNY Faculty Senate. These committees include: governance, graduate programs and research, public information, student life, undergraduate programs and policies, university operations/budget/library and info. systems/personnel and affirmative action, and the university awards committee. D. King has nomination forms and they have to be sent in by May 1st.

Nominations are needed for Judicial Committees for 2001-2003. The committees are: Student Conduct, Administrative Appeals (1 year term), Judicial Advisory Panel (1 year term), and Mediation Panel (1 year term).

A Regional Middle States meeting was held in Albany on April 26th. President Stanley and D. King attended. Also attending were the presidents and campus governance leaders from about 2 dozen campuses in the northeast. The main purpose of the meeting was to review the changes being implemented in the new Middle States institutional evaluation standards for accreditation. The Middle States team was soliciting input from us and other campuses regarding the new standards.

The NCATE/NYSED joint team visited campus last week. The team met with numerous groups in SOE and A+S. The initial reaction is that we seem to have had a favorable review.

The DSI schedule was added to this meeting agenda by the PPC. There will need to be a vote to waive the two-week rule so it may be voted on at today's meeting.

D. King mentioned some of Faculty Assembly's accomplishments this year. They have reviewed and approved a number of new or revised programs reported out by the APC, PPC and the Graduate Council. They reviewed 5 graduate programs in education that were up for recertification. They created a Task Force on Academic Quality and Expectations. They have also made significant progress on bylaw revision.

D. King closed by clarifying an issue regarding a vote that occurred at the last FA meeting. The vote on article XVI in the bylaw revision failed due to the lack of a 2/3-majority vote (26 in favor, 0 opposed, 3 abstentions). An abstaining vote cannot make a motion to reconsider, only an opposed vote could. So, D. King withdrew his ruling and that negates the vote on the motion to reconsider. However, there was a recommendation for a "motion to renew". Any member of the house can make such a motion. This is an option for next semester when we return to bylaw revision under unfinished business.

V. Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

A. The UCC met and approved the following courses:

COG 316: Cognitive Musicology

VI. Unfinished Business

VII. New Business

There was no new business.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:15 PM.