Chair: S. Camp

Recorder: Anthony Procopio

Members Absent:Y. Petrella, J. Jubin, J. Fiorini, W. Silky, J. Nichols, M. Groman, W. Rule, B. Meyer, D. Tascarela, S. Ressing

                        The meeting was called to order at 3:02 P.M.

I. Approval of Agenda

The agenda was approved unanimously.

II. Approval of Minutes

The minutes for March 26^th, April 9^th and April 23^rd were all approved.

III.  FA Chair’s Report – S. Camp

*Notice: *Thank you Anthony for your service this year as Faculty Assembly Clerk.

This was Greg Auleta’s final assembly meeting, as he is retiring. Dr. Camp hopes that Greg will enjoy his retirement.

-     S. Camp gave further reports at the General Faculty Meeting at 4 P.M.

Campus Concept Committee- The focus groups of the “West End” faculty were conducted April 16^th, 30^th, and May 7^th. The committee met on May 1^st and toured Swetman Hall after hearing reports. S. Camp is excited about the fall opening. CCC will meet at least once during the summer.

IV.  Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces

Personnel Policies Council reported that they are anticipating the re-election of Dr. Camp.

Academic Policies (see attached)

General Education Council approved ART 208 and ACC 215 for the Cultures and Civilizations requirement. Two other writing courses were approved.

Graduate Council met on April 27^th and approved the following course:

HCI 590: HCI Independent Study

Library Council (see attached)

Undergraduate Curriculum Council (see attached)

Prerequisite Enforcement Ad hoc Committee met April 27^th (on web)

Professional Development Task Force (on web)

Academic Policies: met April 27^th, 2007

            -The Gerontology minor was APPROVED with minor revisions.

          - There was a second review of the General Education Proposal to Reduce Intellectual Issues to 3 sh.

                     a) P. Rosenbaum shared his concerns that the proposal to the General Education Council passed by APC at its previous meeting to reduce Intellectual Issues is not based on an educational rationale but rather on the alleged lack of seats-which is due to administration reducing or not providing faculty-not the faculty not creating or wanting to teach these courses.

                      b) R. Mohammandi shared his knowledge of the difficulties related directly to the number of seats available versus the number of seats needed by students.

c) P. Rosenbaum noted that the lack of resources for this program was an administrative responsibility, not one that the faculty should be doing something to fix.

d) P. Rosenbaum moved that the Council reconsider its vote to support the proposal.

                      e) The Motion failed for lack of a second.

          f) P. Rosenbaum asked that the Minutes shoe that he intends to make a minority report (distributed at FA 5/7/07) at Faculty Assembly voicing his concerns about the proposal to decrease Intellectual Issues to 3sh.

-Summary of APC for 2006-07 – separate set of material.

-GPA Policy for Second Majors- The concern that is the fairness of the current policy for returning Oswego students in respect to their GPA’s versus the policy for students from another institution returning for a second major. After some discussion, it was decided to Table the item until a later meeting when A. Westfall, S. Fish and D. Bozak can attend.

-Review of Pass/Fail Policy- APC recommends that the Pass/Fail Policy remain as it is currently stated.

-The final meeting of APC for the 2006-07 year was May 4^th, 2007.

Library Council:

-Meeting was held on Thursday, May 3, 2007

-In attendance: Joe Rial, Mary Beth Bell, and Karel Kurst-Swanger

1. Due to a mix up in meeting dates the group decided to go ahead with a meeting, despite the fact that only three people were in attendance.

2. Mary Beth updated the council on the work of the Library Planning committee. The committee is continuing to prioritize projects for renovations to the library. The group is still on target for passing along information to an architect in the fall. The projects high on the priority list at this time include:

Updating HVAC

Designing a variety of different kinds of study areas with different kinds of seating arrangements to accommodate both individual and group study

Develop a learning common concepts whereby the service areas of the library are consolidated and provided on the main floor

Add a new classroom space that can hold up to 50 students

Add a conference room

Renovate the back entrance

3. Mary Beth also announced the expanded open hours of the library for finals.

Undergraduate Curriculum Council:

Developed by Frank Byrne; reported by David Andrews

Meeting on April 25, 2007: UCC met and reviewed a number of new and updated course proposals. UCC approved the following new and updated course proposals:

            New Courses (4 total):

ANT 360 – Documentary Anthropology and Creative Ethnography

PSY 370 – Evolutionary Psychology

PSY 377 – Human Sexuality

PSY 473 – Hormones and Behavior

            Updated Courses (1 total):

ANT 300 – Sex and Gender Across Cultures

Meeting on May 2, 2007: UCC met and reviewed a number of new and updated course proposals. UCC approved the following new and updated course proposals:

            New Courses (7 total):

            - ARA 101 – Elementary Arabic

            - ARA 102 – Continuing Elementary Arabic

            - CSC 495 – Software Engineering Project Seminar I

            - CSC 496 – Software Engineering Project Seminar II

            - ENG 365 – Junior Seminar: Author

            - GRT 385 – Research in Applied Gerontology

            - HIS 329 – The Cold War

            Updated Courses (5 total):

ENG 304 – Literary Criticism

OPM 310 – Operations Management

OPM 410 – Management Science

OPM 415 – Decision Analysis

OPM 486 – Materials Management

UCC Web Site Reminder:

            - The spreadsheet for all courses (including existing course updates and new courses) reviewed by UCC this academic year is available and will be up to date by May 11 on the UCC web site: www.oswego.edu/ucc.

            - **Please notify FA that UCC will not meet again this semester. Obviously we will no longer take course proposals and the course submission page on the UCC website will be shut down until next fall (September 2007). 

V. Unfinished Business

General Education/Priorities and Planning proposal to amend first sentence in describing Intellectual Issues by adding a period after “3 credit course” and creating a new rationale passed 22-14

Proposed reduction of the Intellectual Issues requirement down to one 3 credit course failed 18-17

Proposed revisions for the Software Engineering BS passed 34-0

Proposed 2007 DSI schedule passed 36-1

Proposed changes in Cognitive Science minor passed: 29 – 0

VI. New Business

- There was no new business

The meeting was adjourned at 3:57 P.M.