Attending: Susan Coultrap-McQuin, presiding; Michael Ameigh, recording. Paul Roodin, Rolando Arroyo-Sucre, Yvonne Petrella, Suzanne Weber, Andrew Westfall, Paloma Jalife, Rhonda Mandel, Mary Avrakatos, Bill Bosch, Mary Beth Bell, Robert Cole, Norm Weiner, Mary Schoeler, Tom Darvill

1. Announcements:

The Library Visioning Committee is close to making recommendations to the Campus Concept Committee regarding a vision of Penfield Library in the 21st century.

A new director of General Education will be announced shortly.  The General Education board is considering incorporating more laboratory time in the science curriculum.

The campus community will be surveyed regarding issues of intellectual integrity and plagiarism.  The Committee on Intellectual Integrity is preparing the survey.

Additional classrooms and common areas have been configured for wireless network access.  These include spaces in Poucher, Lanigan and Hewitt Union.

A delegation of Oswego faculty will travel to Hobart and William Smith College shortly to participate in a grant-writing workshop presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A conference on hybrid courses is planned for March 24th.  Five dollars registration includes some meals.

A number of high quality internships have been landed by Oswego students in the current semester including one at the New York Yankees, another at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts among them.

Ninety percent of first-year students in the Equal Opportunity Program (EOP) were retained from the Fall semester.

Continuing Education has moved to temporary quarters in 100 Sheldon Hall.

A number of Honors students will present at the Northeast Regional Honors Convocation in Philadelphia later this semester.

The School of Education announced the successful launch of its e-portfolio initiative with 50 faculty participating.

Michelle St. John, new Associate Registrar, has been appointed and has begun working.

A new scheduling software program, Schedule 25, has been implemented by the Registrar's office.  This program is being used to schedule classes for coming terms.

The university is investigating the potential for instituting an engineering program. A delegation from Olin College recently consulted with administrators on the feasibility of establishing such a program at Oswego.

Faculty are reminded to enter their professional and scholarly activities into the on-line faculty activities database.  The system, managed by the Office if Institutional Research and Assessment, is ready to accept input.

2. Discussion: four breakout groups composed of attendees proposed ideas related to the quality of education at SUNY Oswego and the types of students who would benefit from our education.  Such ideas will help guide program planning in years ahead.  Results of those sessions are being compiled for distribution to members.

-Adjourned