Chair: Susan Camp

Recorder: Kimberly Kenney

Members Absent: J. Firorini, T. Ramalho, W. Silky, D. Vanouse, D. Zych, T. Darvill, T. Delaney, J. Langenfeld-Rial

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

Approval of Agenda

            The Chair proposed a change to Unfinished Business/ Task Force Proposal for the Professional Development Center to just a report, with voting to occur at the following meeting. The Agenda was approved as amended.

Approval of May 7^th 2007 Minutes

The May 7^th, 2007 minutes were approved unanimously.

FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp

The Chair again welcomed the members of the Assembly and asked them to verify their membership and advise the clerk, Kimberly Kenney (kenney@oswego.edu) with any changes.

Dr. Camp then inquired about any recommendations for bottled water at the meetings, and reminded everyone to bring a mug to the meetings in the interest of resource conservation.

Dr. Camp then noted the need for a Parliamentarian for the Assembly and asked members to think about becoming or nominating a Parliamentarian.

The Chair then mentioned the DSI procedure, and asked for suggestions through sub-committees and school/subdivision peer review chairs.

Dr. Camp reminded the Assembly about the Conflict of Interest and Professional Ethics proposal: she would like to take action on the proposal at the Faculty Assembly Meeting on October 1^st.

Dr. Camp then notified the Assembly that the Professional Development Center Proposal has been sent to Priorities and Planning Council.

The Chair also said that there was a response from Priorities and Planning regarding the New School proposal that was distributed before the meeting.

In regard to the Graduation Outcomes, Dr. Camp and the provost are planning to ask departments, centers etc to review and give suggestions for revisions by early November that will be directed to APC for their deliberation along with recommendations to the Faculty Assembly by the end of the semester.

Dr. Camp then brought up the issue of the voting faculty list dilemma. She urged Faculty Assembly representatives to work with chairs to revise and verify the list of voting faculty.

Reports of Councils, Committees, and Task Forces

Academic Policies Council has a meeting on Friday 9/21/07.

Priorities and Planning Council has met two times this year. They discussed the pros and cons of the new Arts and Sciences School. The pros were that it would increase donations to the school, the Theater department in particular. It would also increase make the pool of applicants to Oswego larger and better. Also, the split of the School of Education and School of Business has proven successful. The negative aspects of the new school include an extra cost of $200K per year, it would decrease collaboration between the schools, it would mean that Oswego was searching for three deans at one time, a proliferation of schools would potentially change the nature of Oswego, and its identity might be confused with other schools.  Priorities and Planning Council has decided to endorse the new school. Members of the Assembly were asked to read the distributed document before the next meeting.

General Education Council met on September 11^th and discussed the impact of Faculty Assembly on an infused critical thinking model in the curricula. They will have more information soon.

Information Technology Council will schedule a meeting within the week.

Elections

Elections for vacancies on FA Councils and Committees

The following people were elected to FA Councils and Committees:

Graduate Council

Non-FA representatives: Joyce Smith (elected 9/10), and Gary Klatsky

Library Council

FA representatives: Thomas Darvil and Patricia Clark

Non-FA representative: Todd Graber and Greg Ketcham

Admissions and Student Services Council

FA Representative: Magdalena Mosbo

Non-FA Representatives: Taejin Jung and Ming-Te Pan

        Undergraduate Curriculum Council

A/S Fine Arts and Lib.: Lisa Langlois

School of Education: Thomas Kubicki

School of Business: Hema Rao

        Academic Outreach Council

FA representative: James Nichols

Non-FA representative: Randolph Odendahl

 Campus Concept Committee

Voting Fac. or Prof. Staff: Tim Braun

        Auxiliary Services Board

Representatives: Mary Beth Bell and Fritz Messere

        Student Association Senate

Representatives: Andy Westfall and Mary Beth Bell

Unfinished Business

Proposed BFA Studio Art Revision- The Art department wishes to implement digital technology and some professional practices into some of its courses. Digital Imaging would become a fundamental course. The total number of credits for the degree would be the same. The department would eliminate ART 310-Drawing II.  The proposal was approved 30-0 with revisions to be made before sending to the catalogue.

Proposed Gerontology Minor- With such a large need for access to Gerontology courses and the many areas of society that deal with the Gerontological studies, a Gerontology minor was proposed. It would include 21 sh and a new course that was already approved by APC. After discussion it was voted 33-1 to postpone voting on the minor proposal until a revised curriculum proposal is distributed.

Task Force Proposal – Professional Development Center- Mark Morey came in to discuss the Task Force proposal for a new development center. The task force recommends that the current Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching be reborn as “The Academy: The Academicians Center for Excellence in Professional Development.” This would entail a broader scope for the center and more enhanced resources. The mission of this center is to serve the mission of the college. The center would promote excellence in a broader sense and its scope would reach to everything relevant to promoting excellence within the college. Its function would be to link everyone trying to contribute to the goals of the center and the college. Leadership would be active and involved faculty along with some student interns. The Academy would require centralized office space and funding would come mainly from the Provost’s office, but there are hopes that it would come from other areas of the school as well as from outside donations.

New Business

There was no new business.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:50 PM