Chair: Dr. Susan Camp

Recorder: Kimberly Kenney

Members Absent:J. McDougal, B. Peng, B. Hampton, W. Silky, G. Cooperman, J. Langenfeld-Rial

The meeting was called to order at 3:11 PM

I.  Approval of Agenda

There were revisions to the Agenda. Under “Unfinished Business” B.A. English Revision, B.A. Track III Graphic Design Revision, B.F.A. Graphic Design Revision, and Modern Languages and Literatures Minors Revisions were added between items 1 and 2.

II.  Approval of November 26^th and December 3^rd, 2007 Minutes

The minutes of both November 26^th and December 3^rd were approved.

III. Faculty Assembly Chair’s Report—S. Camp

Dr. Camp began her report by welcoming both new and returning members of the Assembly.  She reminded the Assembly that all members giving a report are to include a written copy for Kimberly so she may include them in the minutes accurately and in a timely fashion. She also reminded everyone to speak loudly and clearly for all to hear.

The Chair also spoke about two items from APC that she does not plan for the Assembly to vote on. One is the change of the name from Creative Arts Therapy minor to Expressive Arts Therapy. The second item was the Oral Proficiency Inventory for Adolescence Education 7-12 French, Spanish and German. Dr. Camp asked that if any member believes these items need to be voted on, to let her know.  Dr. Camp also noted that, along with APC and Philosophy, she had some confusion about the Philosophy B.A. and minor requests, so this issue will be voted upon at the next meeting.

Dr. Camp met with Mary Beth Bell, David Clendenning and Jim Nichols in order to discuss how the by-laws and appendixes will be changed due to the founding of the new school. Faculty members of the Library have had several discussions pertaining to what they would prefer regarding personnel issues and councils. PPC will be working on this.

The Chair noted that the Assembly would soon be hearing from Jean Chambers or Bill Goffe regarding the proposed Assessment Center. The written proposal was distributed but is also online.

She went on to discuss her recent trip with Senator Ryniker to the University Faculty Winter Plenary at SUNY Albany. They heard from Interim Chancellor Clark, Provost Palm, Special Assistant to Governor Lloyd Constantine and many others. She also discussed her attendance at the first retreat of the new School of Communication, Media and the Arts.

Dr. Camp noted that the Professional Development Center that was recommended by the Assembly last semester has been implemented. Greg Ketcham from Continuing Education has been appointed the coordinator for two years.

The Chair brought to the attention of the Assembly two upcoming conferences. There was a handout at the meeting about Professional Development and one was e-mailed that pertains to getting proposals funded.

Dr. Camp reported to Oswego’s College Council last Wednesday that Governor Spitzer has appointed his first two council members, Darlene Baker and Michael Goldych. The remainder of the council includes Chair David Poleto, Jane Backus, Darlene Baker, Saleem Cheeks, Paul Culligan, Mike Goldych, Stephen Greene Sr., Daniel Olson, Carolyn Rush and Josh Miller, the Student Association President.

IV. Faculty Senate Report

Senator Ryniker’s report was to be given at the General Faculty Assembly meeting.

V.  Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

Personnel Policies Council met to discuss by-law revisions for the new School. They will be looking to Faculty Assembly regarding the library’s positioning situation because of the new School.

General Education Council met Tuesday, January 31^st. Most of the departments have submitted plans for Critical Thinking. Memos will be sent to those programs that still need to submit plan approval. The council approved the following: “All current and future students will satisfy the critical thinking requirement of general education via their major department or program critical thinking infusion plan.” The council also approved Arabic 102 as a course in the foreign languages category. Their next meeting will be Tuesday, February 5^th at 8 AM.

Undergraduate Curriculum Council has met twice since the last Assembly meeting, and approved twelve new courses:

   ART 342: Experimental Photography

   ART 376: Graphic Novel

   PBJ 387: Research Methods and Data Analysis

   PSY 190: Gateway to Research in Psychology

   PSY 345: Industrial/Organizational Psychology

   PSY 361: Psychology of Language

   HRM 464: Senior Seminar in Human Resource Management

   CHE 455: Medicinal Chemistry

   BIO 296: Directed Research

   BIO 396: Teaching Assistant in the Biological Sciences

   GEO 420: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy

   GEO 440: Invertebrate Paleontology

Campus Concept Committee will meet Friday, February 7^th to continue crafting the campus sustainability mission and vision and begin visioning the Hewitt Quad.

Writing Across the Curriculum and Steering Committee was asked to help with interviews for the English Department Search.

VI.  Elections

-John Huonker was elected to the Retention Task Force for School of Business.

-Pat Russo was elected to the Retention Task Force for School of Education.

-Elizabeth Schmitt was elected to the Retention Task Force for School of Arts and Sciences in the Social and Behavioral subdivision.

-Several seats are still open:

      ~2 non FA seats for Information Technology Council

      ~1 FA seat for Admissions and Student Services Council

      ~1 non FA seat for Library Council

      ~1 at-large Faculty seat for Campus Concept Committee

      ~1 Student Association Senate at-large seat

      ~1 seat for School of Communication, Media and the Arts on Retention Task                               Force

      ~1 seat for Humanities subdivision on Retention Task Force

      ~1 seat for Sciences subdivision on Retention Task Force

VII.  Unfinished Business

-Policy on non-Oswego repeated Courses-from APC.  “Students shall only receive credit for the same course once. When a course is taken at Oswego that was previously taken elsewhere, the grade earned at Oswego is counted towards the student’s GPA. If an Oswego course, in which a student earned a grade lower than C-, is repeated elsewhere with prior approval, and a C- or better was earned, the Oswego grade will be excluded from the student’s GPA.” After much discussion and many questions, it was decided that the statement needed to be re-worded for better understanding before action is taken.

-B.A. English- the proposal was approved unanimously as revised.

-B.A. Track III Graphic Design- the revisions were approved unanimously.

-B.F.A. Graphic Design- the revisions were approved unanimously.

-Modern Languages and Literatures minors- the revisions to the programs were approved unanimously as revised.

VIII.  New Business

There was no new business.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:02 PM