Faculty Assembly Minutes September 22, 2003

Chair: Susan Camp Recorder: Jessica Godkin

Members Absent: B. Waterman, W. Silky, W. Ihlow, B. Randolph, M. Nelson-Richards, and M. Martin

The meeting was called to order at 3:12 PM.

1. Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved unanimously.

2. FA Chair's Report - S. Camp

S. Camp started the meeting by reminding everyone that the General Faculty meeting is scheduled for October 20th, at 4 p.m. She announced that the Faculty Assembly now has a web-based discussion forum. Thanks to the help of many, it took less than one business day to complete the initiative. The forum is password protected, but can be easily used with Oswego user names and passwords.

S. Camp mentioned that Faculty Assembly would want to investigate Oswego's publicized stance on hazing.

Although council elections are nearly finished, people still have to be selected for Auxiliary Services Board (1), Student Senate Representatives (2), Administrative Appeals Board (1) and Judicial Advisory Panel (1). The elections will be scheduled for the October 6th meeting. S. Camp asked the Assembly to please bring nominees.

3. Provost Academic Affairs Report- D. King

D. King reported to the assembly a list of activities and initiatives for Academic Affairs including new hires for 2003-2004, new temporary service budget planning process, a new "Challenge Grant," the new library cyber cafe, new college/community speaker series, L.O.R.C.O grant proposal, renewable energy and a "Course Space" pilot program to develop web enhanced courses. D. King also reported on a new campus web management system, the expansion of wireless networking in Rich, Johnson and the Library Cafe, advanced instructional facilities in Rich Hall, new/replacement computer purchase program, a new web based format for Annual Update & Faculty Workload forms, and general education review and class size discussions. Lastly, D. King spoke of reviewing ways to enhance faculty development, proposed hiring strategy for 2004-2005, equipment requests and DSI process.

4. Faculty Senator Report- L. Peterson

The Faculty Senate had nothing to report at this time.

5. Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

1. Academic Policies Council met Friday, September 19th. Joyce Smith was elected chair and Cheryl Kaus is the FA reporter. They approved two program announcements for the proposed BS program in Biochemistry and proposed B. A. program in Forensic Anthropology. At this stage the announcements are shared with other SUNY units and do not require FA action.

Academic Policies Council will meet again 3:00 on October 3rd.

2. The Provost Search Committee met Tuesday, September 9th. The committee members invited the Assembly's input in the process. Comments can be sent to provsrch@oswego and information can be found on their web site, which is currently under development.

3. Undergraduate Curriculum Council report

Approved 5/7/2003

COG 399 Independent Study 1-6

COG 499 Independent Study 1-6

GEO 480 Tectonics 3

Approved 5/14/2003

ACC 345 Financial Statement Analysis 3

ART 208 Introduction to Digital Imaging 3

ART 318 Introduction to 3 Dimensional Modeling 3

ART 352 Nineteenth Century Art 3

ART 357 Gender and the Visual Arts 3

ART 361 Art, Poetry and Religion in Medieval Japan

ART 366 Japanese Ink Painting 3

POR 101 Elementary Portuguese 3

POR 102 Continuing Elementary Portuguese 3

Change Approved 5/7/2003

COG 366 Computational Models of Cognitive Processes Prerequisite corrected to CSC/ISC 241

Approved with minor revisions and revisions received

COM 375 Rhetoric of Film 3

HDV 331 Applied College Student Development 1

HDV 332 Indirect Helping in College Student Development: Supervision and Consultation 1

HDV 333 Indirect Helping in College Student Development

II: Programming, Planning and Assessment 1

PED 316 Field Hockey Coaching Techniques 3 PED 324 Men's Lacrosse Coaching Techniques 3

1. Unfinished Business

1. Elections for vacancies on FA Councils and Committees

2. Proposed MAT Chemistry was approved.

3. Proposed MAT English was approved.

4. NAS Minor changes are postponed due to lack of sponsor.

5. International Business Minor changes were approved.

6. HRM BS changes were approved.

7. Management Science BS changes were approved.