Disability Parking Arrangements
Parking on the Oswego campus is available for persons with special medical needs in every parking lot.  See the Oswego State Parking Rules and Regulations for further information at http://police.oswego.edu or link from Appendix C. Printed copies of the parking map and regulations are available at the Parking Office at Route 104 and New Street at the entrance to the college.  The Parking Office is open from 7:30 am until 5 pm, Monday through Friday.  Handicapped parking is reserved throughout the campus in numbered lots.   Oswego State parking permits are required in addition to state issued handicapped tags and plates.   Call the University Police Parking Division at 312-3227 for additional information.

Anyone with a valid handicapped permit may park in any numbered lot in addition to designated handicapped parking.

The parking division's staff will assist with referral information regarding the process to obtain a New York State handicapped hang tag/plate.

Students and employees with short-term mobility issues should call the Parking Office at 312-3227 so that they may assist you with locating proximate parking.

Work Required Travel
Faculty and staff members who travel on state business must comply with all college and state travel policies and regulations in order to receive appropriate reimbursement. Required travel procedures are on the web at http://www.ogs.state.ny.us/travel. Questions concerning travel procedures should be directed to the appropriate chair, Dean, supervisor, or the college's Travel Office in Room 401of Culkin Hall (312-2223).

Basic Instructional Services
The following policy has been established to govern the use of campus facilities by professional staff, students, and outside groups.

Academic Facilities Reservations for the use of all academic facilities (classrooms, lecture halls, and auditoriums), except Laker Hall, are made through the Registrar's Office, Room 301 Culkin Hall. All academic classroom usage must be approved by the Registrar's Office before making any room changes. Academic facilities include Mahar, Wilber. Park, Lee, Piez, Poucher, Swetman, Snygg, Lanigan, and Tyler (except the theatre) halls. Laker Hall reservations are made through the chair of the Department of Health and Physical Education. Generally, most academic buildings are open Monday through Friday, 7 am to 11 pm, and Saturday, by prior arrangement. All activities should end one-half hour before the closing hour of the building to facilitate clearing and securing of the building.

Reservations for Other Campus Facilities: Reservations for use of other campus facilities are made as follows:

Hewitt Union, Hewitt Union Reservations Office, open Monday through Friday.
Culkin Hall conference rooms, Assistant to the President, Room 708 Culkin Hall.
Dining Hall, College Food Service Office, Commissary
Tyler Hall Theatre, Theatre Department, room 105 Tyler Hall
Waterman Theatre, Theatre Department, room 105 Tyler Hall.

Special rules and regulations for use of college facilities by students or off-campus organizations are cited in Appendix B of this handbook.

Keys Faculty members should direct all requests for keys to office doors, desks, or files to their Department Chair. Duplicates of keys to offices and files, except for the master key, should be on file with the maintenance department. Requests, for duplicate keys are made by Department Chairs to the Plant Superintendent's Office. Keys are to he returned to the department at the end of the college year unless the faculty member has a summer session contract. If faculty members are unable to contact their chair, they may turn in the keys to the University-Police Department in Pathfinder Hall.

Mail Faculty are requested to check with their Department Chair relative to mail collection and delivery schedules. Personal mail should be sent to the home address, not in care of the college. With the integration of the voicemail system, you can retrieve your voicemail messages from any touchtone phone in the world.

Hewitt Union
Hewitt Union provides recreational, social, and cultural activities for the campus.   Facilities for campus organizations in the union include permanent office space for student government (Student Association), the campus newspaper {Qswegonian), campus literary magazine (Great Laker Review), college yearbook (Ontarian), radio station (WNYO), and the Student Association Policy Board.

The following is a listing and brief description of the services provided in Hewitt Union:

College Bookstore: The college store is located on the lower level of Hewitt Union. Textbooks are available for all classes and include a large selection of used texts. The College BookStore also has academic pricing on software for PC and Macs and a wide selection of art, office and school supplies, health and beauty aids, and CDs. For information, call 312-2260.

In order to work most efficiently, book information should be submitted as soon as possible. This helps to contain costs for students. The staff can help with any questions regarding course materials. In addition to assisting-with desk copies, the staff also can help put together course packs. Faculty and staff can stop by, call at 312-2997 or 312-2898 (voicemail), or at email clbuske@oswego.edu or sbakerl@oswego.edu,

Recreation Area: Ten pocket billiard tables, and a billiard table are available in the recreation area. Air hockey, foosball, space ball and other coin-operated amusement machines, and washing machines are also available. For information, call 312- 2926.

Postal Vending Station: A postal vending station is located on the main level of Hewitt Union.

Automatic Teller Machines: (ATM's). Automatic Teller Machines are located in Hewitt Union. Currently HSBC and Oswego County Savings Bank are represented.

Ticket Master This service, located in the main lobby of Hewitt Union, is run by the Student Association.  It serves all SA organizations and many regional events offering tickets through Ticket Master.

The Off Campus Association (OCA) is funded by Student Association and maintains lists of area rental units.

The OZone: The OZone is available for parties or meetings. Video projector, a sound system and a full range of mocktails and soda are available.   Stop at the College Bookstore or call 312- 2260 for details.

The College Cut: The College Cut in Hewitt Union provides hair services to students and staff.

Hewitt Union Dining Services
The Forum All members of the college community (students, faculty, staff, and guests) can dine in the Hewitt Union Restaurant on the second level. Artwork, plants, and friendly service create a relaxed atmosphere. The menu offers everyday favorites with added daily attractions for a wider variety of choices The Forum is open Monday through Friday, from 11 am to 2 pm during the fall and spring semesters. For information, call 312-2992.

Food Court With ten shops including Nathan's Hoi Dogs, Union Grill, Pizzazz Pizza, Stockmarket Soup, Sub City, Taco Bell, Union Express and Quenchers, The Food Court is open from 8 am to 10 pm Monday through Wednesday, 8 am to 6 pm Thursday, 8 am to 2 pm Friday and 6 to 10 pm Sunday.  The food court is located in the Main Level. For more information, call 312-2942.

Private Dining Rooms: Private dining rooms may be reserved for luncheon meetings, with menus selected from  that day's restaurant menu or a predetermined special menu. All arrangements for these meetings are initiated with the Catering Reservations Office, by calling 312-2992.

Other Food Services: Available As well as luncheon meetings, any college organization desiring food service for such events as coffee hours, receptions, dinners, banquets, picnics, or any other catered functions can make these requests through the Hewitt Union Dining Service Catering Department, which handles all catering on or off campus by calling 312-2992.

Satellite Operations: Snygg Snacks is just off the main lobby of Snygg Hall. Hours are 8 am to 7 pm Monday through Thursday, 8 am to 2 pm Friday. JAVA 103 is nestled among the lecture halls in Lanigan Hall and is open from 8 am to 2 pm Monday through Friday. These eateries offer sandwiches, salads, homemade soup, beverages, and snack items.

Reservations: Located in the main office complex on the commons level, this office reserves a wide variety of meeting and multi-pur-pose rooms in Hewitt Union. The office assists organizations with arrangements for audio­visual equipment. For additional information, call 312-2301, Monday through Friday, from 8 am to 4:30 pm

Student Association: The student government offices are located on the second level of Hewitt Union. The S A student services plaza located in the lobby provides a Ticker Master outlet, check cashing, photocopying, and postage stamps. For additional information, call 312-3601.

Television Lounge Open daily on the upper level.

Sweet Sboppe: The Sweet Shoppe is located on the main level of Hewitt Union. There is a full range of candy (packaged and loose) and cookies. Beverages include both cold and hot drinks, such as sodas, juices, cappuccino. expresso, latte, gourmet coffees and teas. In addition, there is a large selection of magazines and local and national newspapers. For convenience, subscriptions are available to the New York Times. Please stop by or call 312-2178 or 312-5435 for more information.

Campus Copy Shop: Located on the main level of Hewitt Union. Information on college activities, programs, services, clubs and organizations, telephone directories, and meetings, is available. Additionally, a Hewitt Union lost and found is available in the center. A campus posting service is available for a nominal charge. Call 312-2300.

Community Services: The Community Services Center in Hewitt Union coordinates a wide variety of student volunteer experiences. The student staff coordinates and places students in the Adopt-A-Grandparent and Big Brother/ Big Sister Programs. The center also serves as a clearinghouse, which refers students to a wide variety of volunteer service programs in operation in the community. For information, call extension 5368.

Leadership Education Activities: Development Center The LEAD Center is a clearinghouse for information on leadership, and a resource center for student leaders, and faculty or professional staff advisors to student groups. The center maintains a library of leadership material, and provides a series of general leadership development programs as well as individualized workshops for groups. A network o: faculty and staff provide the backbone of the center by serving as resources on specific topics or by participating in workshops for student leaders.

Residence Dining Halls
Cooper, Lakeside, Littlepage, and Pathfinder dining halls are open to faculty and visitors on a casual meal-rate basis. Visitors purchase a meal choosing from a variety of entrees. Salad bars are featured at lunch and dinner and additional portions are available at no extra charge.

Guest Rooms
A limited number of guest rooms is available in residence halls and in Sheldon Hall for guests of the college. Residence hall rooms may not be available during the periods of academic recess and are limited during the summer months. Sheldon Hall guest rooms are strictly limited to guests of the college including lecturers, candidates for employment, or New York State employees on state business. They are furnished with double or queen-sized beds, cable television, clock radio, coffee makers, refrigerators, and personal bathrooms, similar to commercial hotels and at comparable rates.   Information and reservation details are available by contacting the Residence Life and Housing Office at 312-2246.

Credit Union
The Oswego State Federal Credit Union is located in Room 507C of Culkin Hall and has been serving the campus community since 1973. The credit union offers low cost loans to members for new and pre-owned automobiles, vacations, and home improvements. The credit union also offers saving accounts, holiday club accounts, vacation club accounts, checking accounts, debit cards, and overdraft lines of credit.  Money orders and Travelers Checks are available at the credit union.  Members may sign up for direct deposit of payroll, social security, and retirement benefits into their checking account. Also available are check cashing privileges and payment of monthly utility bills, insurance, or mortgage.  For more information, call the credit union on campus at 312-2191.  Office hours are 9 am to 3 pm Monday through Friday.

Requisitions, Supplies, and Maintenance
All purchasing functions must be centralized in the Purchasing Department to insure compliance with the state's rules and regulations governing purchasing, to insure cost controls in obtaining reasonable prices, to maintain and follow internal control procedures over the issuance, approval, and maintenance of purchase orders, and to maintain efficient operating procedures. The Purchasing Agent is authorized to do the purchasing for SUNY Oswego in accordance with the rules and regulations issued by the Office of the State Comptroller, Division of Audit and Control, and the Office of General Services. No purchase orders for supplies, materials, equipment and/or services are to be placed except by the Purchasing Agent.

Initiating purchase requisitions, developing specifications, and judging quality of materials, equipment or services received must be done, in many instances, by the Department Chair or the ultimate end-user of the material, equipment, or service. The type of service rendered to the agency by the Purchasing Department will depend largely upon the cooperation received from the department requesting the service.

Individual departments must make their needs known to the Purchasing Department with purchase requisition forms available from the department secretaries or from the Purchasing Department. The requisition should give the Purchasing Department complete and accurate information for the material, equipment, supplies, or services that the department requires. Sufficient time should be allowed in the purchasing procedure to accommodate the funding of the requisition, acquisition of current costs, mailing of the purchase order, and estimated delivery time.

Copies of the purchasing procedures manual have been distributed to Department Chairs and department secretaries. For additional copies of the Purchasing Procedures, Departmental Requirements, please contact the Purchasing Department at 312-2224.   State funds may not be expended for items that are for personal use, or for the purchase of food products such as coffee, tea, doughnuts, faculty luncheons, dinners, candy, etc.

Confirming Orders: State procurement procedures make it clear that only a few designated people at the campus level have the authority to obligate the state to an expense. Campus personnel (both faculty and staff) are not authorized to obligate the college/state to an expense. Confirming requisitions will not be accepted unless authorization has first been obtained from the campus Purchasing Agent, campus President, Vice Presidents, Provost, or Director of Finance and Budget before the transaction transpires.

Return of Merchandise: Do not return any merchandise for credit, exchange, repairs, modifications, or for any other reason until the Purchasing Department has been notified and the necessary shipping order has been prepared.

Procurement Card - Overview
The American Express Corporate Purchasing Card offers the State University of New York campuses an alternative procurement method when making small dollar purchases. The program as implemented at SUNY is known as the procurement card. The program is intended to afford SUNY campuses the opportunity to streamline their local procedures and controls for procuring goods and services. Purchasing associates administer the campus program.

Proper use of the procurement card can reduce the time between requesting, ordering, and actual receipt of goods and services.   Additionally, the procurement card program reduces the volume of accounts payable transactions and the associated administrative costs by eliminating supplier invoices and consolidating multiple supplier payments into one monthly voucher payment to the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC).

Operation of the SUNY program follows the basic New York State Procurement Card SUNY Guidelines as established by the Office of General Services.  New York State is liable for authorized charges made using the card. Procurement cards may be used for "official" SUNY purchases only.  Use of the card for personal items, cash advances, and business travel expenses is not permitted.

Spending authority is overseen by the purchasing associate and approved by the Vice President of Administration and Finance. Use of the Procurement Card is typically limited to items or transactions totaling $500 or less (excluding freight). All shipments are to be delivered to a designated cardholder.

Procurement cards will be issued to individuals who are given the appropriate purchasing authority. The cards are issued with the name of the cardholder and SUNY Oswego embossed on the card.  Cardholders must sign an employee agreement form before obtaining the procurement card.

Training will be provided for all persons receiving a procurement card. This training will cover the use of the procurement card consistent with New York State policy as well as SUNY Campus purchasing practices. Training must he completed before issuance of the card. For more information regarding the SUNY Procurement Card, contact a purchasing associate at 312-2224.

Equipment Inventory Control/ Property Control
Equipment purchased by departments (regardless of funding source) is owned by the State of New York and is on permanent loan to this college. Although funds are allocated to departments for the purchase of equipment, the ownership of the equipment purchased remains with the state. This also includes gifts and free goods donated to the college.

The State of New York requires all state agencies to maintain a Property Control System. The Property Control System has been designed to provide accurate inventory of SUNY—owned equipment. When properly maintained, this system should show the net worth of all equipment located at this campus.  Each agency is accountable to System Administration or maintaining the Properly Control System at the campus level and accomplishing all necessary procedures to perpetuate the system.

Equipment includes Items such as, but not limited to machinery, vehicles, laboratory equipment, office equipment, furniture, etc., which may be used repeatedly without impairment of physical condition, with a probable life of two years.

In order to comply with audit mandates and to assist the campus inventory control coordinator with re-inventory, surplus equipment, and the circulation of information regarding inventory procedures, each department has been requested to identify one individual to act as department equipment coordinator.  It is the individual department's responsibility to notify the campus inventory control coordinator of equipment changes within the department. It is expected that those individuals using the equipment will be responsible custodians. Equipment is to be used for college business only.

It is the responsibility of the individual departments to assist the campus inventory control coordinator in conducting an annual equipment inventory by providing assistance in sensitive areas, providing access to locked or normally inaccessible department areas, to help locale all equipment assigned to a department, and to help determine the condition and utilization of equipment.

It is the department's responsibility to notify the campus inventory control coordinator of unusable/non-used equipment/equipment that may be surplus to the department's needs. Because equipment is state-owned (not department owned) it may be assigned, or reassigned where needed if this action would serve the best interest of the college.

Equipment, no matter what the condition {non-working, broken, cannibalized, obsolete, etc.), cannot be discarded unless proper procedures are followed. Equipment, no matter what condition it is in must be cleared through the campus inventory control coordinator and put into storage/surplus and/or disposed of in accordance with the Property Control System rules and regulations. For a copy of the Equipment Inventory Control Policies and Procedure—Departmental Issue, contact the campus inventory control coordinator, Room 402 Culkin Hall, or call 312-2228.

The President of the college has authority to assign, reassign, or confiscate college equipment within the guidelines established by the Bureau of the Budget and the State Comptroller if, in the President's opinion, this action would serve the best interests of the college.

Custodial Work
Custodians are expected to clean offices, empty wastebaskets and maintain the floors, of all buildings, with the exception of certain laboratory areas. Normally, custodians are assigned a certain workload in each building. Reasonable requests for additional items of custodial service should be sent to the head janitor. In case of neglect, complaints should be made to the head janitor in charge of the area. Problems that are more serious should be reported to the head janitor also. Recycling is now an additional custodial function; however, each employee will be responsible to bring recyclable items from their workstation to a central point in the building.

Maintenance
The Maintenance Department is responsible for maintaining the condition of the buildings, as well as maintaining adequate performance of all utilities. Requests for needed repair work should be made by written work order to the Maintenance Operations Center. Emergencies should be reported to the maintenance dispatcher by telephone.

There is limited time and money available for minor additions and modifications. Requests for this type of work should be initiated by memorandum to the academic Department Chair a copy sent to the Director of Physical Plant. This work will be prioritized on an academic need basis in keeping with the demand of the ongoing maintenance programs. Modifications and new construction must be completely funded by the department making the request and are subject to review for applicable codes governing tire safety, building design, and handicapped accessibility.

Work Orders: Work orders are prepared on a standard form, obtainable from the Maintenance Department. These are written requests for routine work, repairs, or painting. Normally, each department should have a stock of these on hand for members of the department to use. Work orders that are not approved by the Department Chair will be returned. Work orders should not encompass erection or removal of partitions, or other modification of building spaces. If these services are required, the project will have to be cleared through the academic supervisor or Department Chair and then forwarded to the Plant Superintendent. All other work orders should be sent to the Maintenance Operation Center.

Publications Department
The Publications Department offers printing services for the college community. The department can help with planning printing needs from concept and design through pre-press set-up, printing and college distribution. We produce one-color brochures, postcards, newsletters, posters, booklets, flyers, notices, business cards and a variety of other publications. Estimates for in-house printing are available. See http://www.oswego.edu/publications/ for details or contact the department at 312-3130 or print@oswego.edu. The department is located in Building #20 on Sheldon Avenue. For copies of the college logotype and the current College Graphic Identity Guide see http://www.oswego.edu/publications/idguide.html. This guide defines accepted usage of the college logotype in a variety of media.

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President's Letter

Preface

Section 1: History and Governance

Section 2: Employment Policies

Section 3: Fringe Benefits

Section 4: General Policies

Section 5: Policies of SUNY Oswego

Section 6: Instructional Policies and Procedures

Section 7: Student Faculty Concerns

Section 8: Facilities and Resources

Section 9: Services

Section 10: Recreational and Cultural Resources

Appendix A: Organizational Chart (MSWord, 70k)
Appendix B: College Facilities Use Regulations
Appendix C: Vehicle Regulations
Appendix D: Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (Example)
Appendix E: Students with Disabilities Test Accommodation Form (Example Letter and Form)
Appendix F: Policy and Procedure for Testing Accommodations - Disability Services
Appendix G: Faculty Bylaws (this link goes to  the Faculty Assembly site, source of faculty bylaws updates)
Appendix H: Directory of Administrative Officers