Chair: Susan Camp

Recorder: Kimberly Kenney

Members Absent: C. Clabough, J. Jubin, A. Ouellette, J. McDougal, B. L. Peng, W. Silky,

D.Vanouse, R. O’Connor, C. Mack, M. McCune, E. Hart, J. McKeown, E. Basualdo

The meeting was called to order at 3:14 PM

I.            Approval of Agenda

    The agenda was approved with Chair requests to add “Graduate Council Election—one non-FA seat,” to elections and “Psychology Honors Program Revisions,” and “African and African -American Studies Minor proposal” to unfinished business after the Philosophy Minor revisions.

II.           Approval of February 4^th, 2008 Minutes

The minutes were approved unanimously.

III.         FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp

Dr. Camp began her report by urging all members of the Assembly to serve on Admissions and Student Services Council, adding that the Board of Trustees has entrusted them all with all things academic on campus, and our by-laws entrust them with the responsibility of overseeing the admissions and student services.

The Chair then noted that she attended the Summer Planning meeting coordinated by Yvonne Petrella. The summer of 2008 will be full of construction and programming. Dr. Camp asked Yvonne to see if there was a single, central place for faculty to look to find out about closures or buildings under construction that might be occurring, adding that a link to the summer session site would be helpful.

Dr. Camp then encouraged the Assembly to look for and recommend that their colleagues apply for directorship of CELT.

IV.    Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces.

            Personnel Policies Council met to once again discuss the Library placement because of create

            of the new school. Library representatives will attend the next FA meeting to discuss

            proposals.      

            Academic Policies Council met on Friday, Feb. 8^th. They passed the revised African and

            African-American minor proposal. They also passed the revised Philosophy BA major

            proposal, which was distributed to the Assembly earlier, before it was passed by APC, however

            the distributed document is the same document that was endorsed by APC. Other proposals

            were considered but not passed. Changes needed to the revised Arts Management Minor were

            conveyed to Julie Pretzat, and the changes were made but the handout of the proposal has not

            yet been approved by APC. The council had further discussion on the graduation outcomes

            proposal and looks forward to meeting with Provost Coultrap-McQuin at the next meeting this

            coming Friday.

            General Education Council met Tuesday, February 4 with Provost Coultrap-McQuin and

            solicited comments on the Graduation Learning Outcomes Proposal. Their next meeting is

            Tuesday, February 19^th.

Admissions and Student Services Council met earlier in the morning, and because of

time conflicts a new meeting time will be identified. Dr. Camp agreed to contact Todd

Graber for previous information for the council, and also to recruit one further FA

representative to the council. The first items on the ASSC agenda are classes during

Thanksgiving week and education for students about financial aid and loans.

         Campus Concept Committee met February 7^th and approved the following

         Sustainability Initiative Mission Statement to forward to the President.

“We are engaged in and committed to meeting the needs of the present generation while sustaining the ability of future generations to meet their needs. We are committed to leadership in making SUNY Oswego an educational community dedicated to ecological, social and economic sustainability and being a model for the region and beyond. We will:

• Make climate neutrality and sustainability an integral part of the curriculum and campus life.

• Measure, evaluate and communicate our environmental impact.

• Develop and offer community programs that will increase the community’s awareness of sustainability options.

• Research, develop and implement strategies to improve our sustainability.

• Engage other institutions and organizations in this initiative.”

CCC will meet Thursday, February 21^st to continue its work on visioning the programming of the Hewitt Quad.

Writing Across the Curriculum and Steering Committee met and reviewed candidates for the Director of the College Writing program.

V.      Elections

Information Technology Council: Margaret Martin (VTP) (07-09) and Ashraf Attia

(MKT&MGT) (06-08) were elected to two non-FA seats.

Campus Concept Committee: Todd Graber (Music) was elected to the at-large

Faculty seat.

Graduate Council: Jacque Kibbey (C&I) was elected fill the non-FA seat

VI.     Unfinished Business

Philosophy Major B.A. revisions proposal was passed unanimously.

Philosophy Minor revisions proposal was passed unanimously.

African and African-American Studies Minor revisions was passed unanimously.

Proposed Revisions to Honors Program in Psychology was passed unanimously.

Proposed Assessment Program, Director and Office There was a motion to “Recommend the naming of an assessment coordinator/lead colleague/mentor to assist schools, departments and programs to complete useful/formative assessment in addition to coordinating campus-wide assessment and appropriate dissemination of results of common learning outcomes. In addition, Faculty Assembly will forward the CAQ proposal to the Provost and President for informational purposes.” There was a motion to amend the wording and strike the words “in addition to coordinating campus-wide assessment and appropriate dissemination of results.”  This motion was not carried. Due to the time, the main motion will be the first item of unfinished business at the next meeting.

VII.     New Business

There was no new business.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:59 P.M.