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Chair: Susan Camp
Recorder: Kimberly Kenney
Memebers Absent: M. Nojan, J. McDougal, W. Silky, R. O’Connor, C. Mack, B.
Altschuler, W. Ihlow, J. McKeown, G. Cooperman, A. King, J. Langenfeld-Rial
The meeting was called to order at 3:04 P.M.
I. Approval of Agenda
The agenda was approved unanimously after deletion of the approval of the
April 7th minutes.
II. FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp
Dr. Camp began her report by telling the Assembly about her visit to the UFS
plenary and SUNY Delhi the past Thursday through Saturday with alternate
University Faculty Senator Gwen Kay. Gwen will give her report at the General
Faculty meeting May 5th. Dr. Camp noted that one optimistic item
emerging from the plenary is that the search committee hopes to have a new
Chancellor by this fall.
Dr. Camp then informed the Assembly about UFS Standing Committees. It is a
good opportunity to work with other colleagues, and if interested, members of
the Assembly should nominate themselves or other colleagues for any of the
standing committees. The meetings entail about two or three live meetings each
year and one to three virtual meetings; all expenses will be reimbursed. To
nominate a colleague, contact Senator Margaret Ryniker.
III.. Reports of Councils, Committees and Task
Forces
Personnel Policies Council is working on the Deans searches. They
will employ electronic voting, most likely a link will be sent out in an email.
The last call for nominations will be soon, as the election takes place in two
weeks. They are also taking nominations for the Chair of the Faculty Assembly
for next year. There will also be a faculty canvas for service on councils to
take place sometime soon.
General Education Council met on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 and reported
the following:
The work on the Tolerance and Intolerance in the United States rubric has
completed and will be presented at our next Council meeting.
Geochemistry is in the midst of wholesale program review and will not be
submitting its critical thinking plan until the beginning of next semester.
Summer orientation programs are placing greater emphasis on academics than
was the case in the past and would like to include a session on general
education. Council members are preparing objectives for this.
ORI - Field Notes From a Catastrophe. The council is preparing
a document for interested faculty to use in their respective courses. We
are also exploring the possible offerings of course(s) with Intellectual Issues
credit in both Explorations in the Natural Sciences and in either Cultures
& Civilizations or Self & Society.
Graduate Council met April 18th and discussed the Metro
Center opening in mid-May. They also approved CHE 503: NMR Laboratory. They
also approved limitations on Graduate student independent Studies: "Graduate
students may earn up to six credit hours of academic credit for independent
study in a single degree program unless otherwise specified in the degree
requirements.”
Information Technology Council met April 16th and further
discussed the e-mail account names discussion, pertaining to the privacy and
sensitivity of information. ITC is working with CTS on this issue.
Undergraduate Curriculum Council met and reported the following
changes to new and existing programs:
Campus Concept Committee will be meeting on April 24th
with CEAC and CTS.
Elections- No action
Unfinished Business
Repeated Course Policy Proposal- Distributed to FA April
7th, 2008. There was some confusion about the new policy, and it was
decided that each department has say over what is to be considered the “same
course” and whether or not students will get credit for each course. Also it
was clarified that credits come in from outside of SUNY Oswego are not attached
to a grade. After further discussion the proposal was passed unanimously.
APC response to Integrity Pledge Proposal-It was moved that the
Assembly endorse the APC response to the Intellectual Integrity Committee
proposal. The motion passed.
Pre-Requisite/Co-requisite Challenge Policy- There was a friendly
amendment to the proposal to change the wording to “instructor permission”
rather than “permission of instructor.” A letter has been sent out asking
departments to look at and re-evaluate their pre-requisites. A question was
raised as to whether instructors may evaluate a student who hasn’t taken the
pre-requisite for a course and decide whether the student may enter or not. It
was decided that this was not to be policy, because of a continuity issue. It
was noted that this implementation of enforcing prerequisites would be a
step-by-step process over a period of time. After further discussion, the
policy proposal was passed unanimously.
Graduation Outcomes APC proposed wording- A continuation of
discussion from two weeks ago at the 4/7 FA meeting. There was a concern
about how these outcomes would apply to real life. It was said that these
outcomes would give students a sense of something to aspire to. A member wanted
APC’s opinion on what students were expected to accomplish in their time at
SUNY Oswego; what is measurable, what is not measurable, etc. It was then noted
that these outcomes were going to be used to assess students and faculty and
their commitment to the outcomes. Another member then asked if there were
outcomes before, and if not, why SUNY Oswego was trying to implement them now.
The student representatives were asked their point of view, and they responded
that their first instinct was to ask how they would be measured if they were to
be implemented. A member of the Assembly called the question and asked
for a vote. The APC proposed outcomes were not approved. It was decided that
the Assembly could email questions and concerns about returning to the original
yellow version and changing the word “outcomes” in the title. FAEB will meet to
discuss this.
College Hour disposition discussion- There was a motion to adopt the
College Hour. There were questions and discussions about the viability of the
program, the results with comments that were gleaned from the survey, etc. It
was noted that of the 3 surveys done, all showed faculty, staff and students in
favor of the College Hour. In response to the motion, it was noted that voting
would be illogical because some people would vote differently depending on the
time that was decided for the Spring 2009 College Hour slot. There was a motion
that was seconded to postpone the vote until next meeting when they would be
able to see all the data. The motion to postpone was passed.
IV. New Business
Time did not allow for discussion
V. Issues, Challenges, Other
Time did not allow for discussion
The meeting was adjourned at 4:54 P.M.
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