Members Absent: L. Tinelli Sheive, M. Stuck

Meeting called to order at 3:11 PM.

I. Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved unanimously.

II. Approval of FA minutes for April 16th and 30th, 2001

These minutes were distributed at the September 10th FA meeting and will be discussed at the next FA meeting on September 17th, 2001.

III. FA Chair's Report — D. King

D. King began by welcoming everyone back to a new academic year. He reminded the Faculty Assembly members about the next two meetings on September 17th and 24th. These meetings will be devoted to elections for vacancies on FA councils and committees. On the September 24th FA meeting agenda, D. King hopes to move on to the reconsideration of bylaw amendments.

He reminded the Assembly of the importance of all FA representatives being present at meetings. The secondary amendments to the bylaws require a simple majority of the house, but the main amendments to the bylaws require a 2/3 majority. So please make an effort to be here, or make sure that your alternate is.

All SUNY campus presidents are subject to a presidential review process. There is an informal annual review with the Chancellor. Campus presidents are also subject to a more formal review process approximately every five years. President Stanley is scheduled to be reviewed this year. D. King spoke with the Chancellor's Office about this matter last spring. He also had another conversation more recently about the presidential review process with Marianna O'Dwyer from the Chancellor's office in Manhattan. She told him that President Stanley is scheduled for review most likely sometime in November, but the Chancellor has not yet set the date. D. King told her that our bylaws called for the election of a representative committee to coordinate consultation with the faculty and staff for the review process. She told him that was acceptable with her office as long as the work of the committee was consistent with the chancellor's guidelines on presidential review. The guidelines for the review process outlined by Chancellor King call for the appointment of a three-person team. This visitation team will meet with administrators, faculty, staff, students, representatives of the college council, and others. In recent years, other campuses have used brief survey instruments to solicit broad evaluative input as part of the consultation process. D. King suggests that we use some adaptation of these instruments and collect data to be given to the review team. To coordinate this process, he asked PPC to establish procedures to elect the Campus Administrative Review Committee, according to guidelines set forth in the Appendix to the faculty Bylaws.

The SUNY Faculty Senate Fall Planning meeting will be held September 20th through the 22nd in Albany. They will be meeting with the Chancellor, Provost Salin, and Vice Chancellor for Finance, Brian Stenson. D. king will attend the meeting.

D. King mentioned that since we did not resolve the changes proposed for the Long Range Policy Council last year, we agreed in Advisory Council to elect the council this year and try to clarify its change. Therefor the PPC has contacted the former members to see who is willing to continue serving and we will have to elect representatives to fill specific vacancies.

UCC has several vacancies. Our concern is to identify someone who is willing to chair the committee that requires extensive record keeping, phone calling, and emailing.

The Faculty Assembly website has had some problems posting the FA minutes and agendas. The FA clerk will meet with Bill Bosch to try and resolve these problems as quickly as possible.

There are several vacancies for which there are no nominees. Please try to recruit people for these vacancies so we can get councils convening as soon as possible.

Rhona Mandel would like to convene the Calendar Committee again in October to develop academic calendars for the next few years. She needs representatives from Academic Policies and Personnel Policies.

The new catalog coordinator is Sue Fettes. She is taking over for Paul Liebenaur who retired last year.

18 of the 20 members of the Task Force on Academic Quality and Reputation met a couple of weeks ago at Fallbrook for a four hour workshop to launch the work of this joint faculty/administrative task force. TFAQ will report regularly to this body.

Campus Concept Committee met with Cannon Architects and the Campus Center Steering Committee for 2 hours last week to receive their initial report on preliminary plans and proposals for the new campus center. The ideas are exciting but there are a lot of decisions to be made this year as the project progresses to the active design stage. The Faculty Assembly will receive regular reports from the CCC meetings and can see the minutes on the CCC website.

IV. Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

A. Oswego Reading Initiative Committee Report — R. Mandel and J. Ann

-See attached report.

B. Priorities and Planning Council met on May 4th and 11th with the three Deans to discuss staffing needs, accreditation, and the cost of general education.

C. UCC approved many courses late last semester and over the summer, please see attached report.

D. The General Education Board met twice during the summer and discussed a number of Intellectual Issues courses.

V. Unfinished Business

There was no unfinished business.

VI. New Business

1. Election of Vice Chair of Faculty Assembly — Walter Opello was nominated and unanimously elected.

2. Elections for vacancies on FA Councils and Committees:

c. -Personnel Policies FA representative re-elected is Greg Auleta.