Faculty Assembly Minutes November 23, 2015
Chair: Joan M. Carroll Recorder: Aaron Wilson
Members Absent:
ANT – ______/ BIO – Rick Back / COM – Jennifer FogelHDV – David Sargent / MAT – Sue Fettes / PSY – Qing Liu
SA – Justin Brantley / VTP – Eugenio Basualdo
The meeting was called to order at 3:14 pm.
I. Approval of Agenda – A motion was made to add the GE World Awareness proposal, discussed at the last meeting and endorsed by the General Education Council, onto the agenda under Unfinished Business. The agenda was approved as revised.
II. Approval of Minutes – The October 26, 2015 minutes were approved. The November 9, 2015 minutes were approved with the correction that “CMA 497 Teaching Assistant” would be adjusted to “CMA 497 Course Assistant.”
III. FA Chair’s Report – Joan Carroll
A shuttle schedule has been prepared for student travel for Thanksgiving break.
The spring meeting schedule is available. The February General Faculty meeting is still to be decided.
Commencement is our academic obligation and regalia can be obtained for free by going to the book store.
Please say your name and constituency before speaking.
Please continue to send electronic copies of all handouts and reports to . We will convert handouts to PDF for posting on our website and sharing through Google Drive.
Please continue to support our green initiatives by bringing your own reusable beverage container to FA meetings.
IV. Academic Affairs Update – Lorrie Clemo, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Academic Affairs Update Nov 23, 2015
There are currently 21 tenure track searches underway. There is also a search for a library director, a director of EOP, and a videographer for extended learning.
Within the next 18 months, these five elements will be included when developing online programs and courses: an orientation video, an online instructor introduction video, an online course overview video, live office hours, and calendaring for the online classroom.
The Metro Center received branch campus status, and 14 programs were approved by the state to be provided at the Metro Center. We decided in consultation with the deans that we will begin to offer completion degrees at the Metro Center in the Fall of 2016.
The president approved a tenure track position to support the positions specifically at the Metro Center.
We are up 35 percent in study abroad, partially due to an increase in scholarships, which have been supported by the summer and winter semester’s tuition.
External support for academic affairs has remained relatively flat.
Three SUNY High Needs grants have been awarded to the institution.
All remaining offices developed their assessment plans, put their assessment plans in place, and finalized their assessment reports in the last month.
This fall, seven SCAC grants have been awarded, totaling $17,791.
The Academic Advisement and Planning Committee has been charged with developing a model to improve student success through improved academic advisement.
DSA awards will be in December 16 paychecks.
V. Experiential Learning Update – Denise DiRienzo, Director of the Center for Experiential Learning
Experiential Learning helps connects students to internships, co-ops, mentor-scholar programs, RISE programs, project-based learning, and STEM mentoring. They work with all departments to develop internships for credit (maximum of 15 credits). The goal is to move learning agreements, work flow evaluations, and timesheets all online in the Experience Network. And, an internship handbook is in development.
VI. 2014-15 Assessment Report – Trevor Jorgensen, Assessment Coordinator
None of the submitted reports are facing significant challenges, everyone submitted a report—a feat that hasn’t been seen in four years, and there were 12 exemplary reports.
Learning outcomes assessments should be worded in a way that makes them measurable.
VII. Reports of Councils, Committees and Task Forces
● Academic Policies Council – Eve Clark
The council met on November 13 and approved the changes to the credit hours for the Accounting BS/MBA program and approved the Graphic Design minor.
The council approved the proposed changes to the honors program pending changes to language regarding the World Awareness requirement, and the council approved changes to the Biocultural Anthropology minor pending amendments and documentation of support from the Department of Biology.
● UCC – Anne Fairbrother
Several new courses and prerequisite changes were approved at the November 16 meeting:
New Courses:
BRC 309: Sound for Television and Film II
MGT 305: Project Management
Prerequisite Changes:
Art 225: Intro to Printmaking
Current Prerequisite(s): Art 105 & Art 210, or Instructor Permission
New Prerequisite(s): Art 105 OR Art 210, or Instructor Permission
ART 496: Studio Practicum
Current Prerequisite(s): Art major, senior standing
New Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or Instructor permission
ISC410: Data Analytics
Current Prerequisite(s): Senior Standing
New Prerequisite(s): Upper Division Standing
PSY 111, 200, 303, 305, 320, 340, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 350, 361
Current Prerequisite(s): PSY100
New Prerequisite(s): PSY100 or COG166
PSY 423: Psychology of Adulthood and Aging
Current Prerequisite(s): PSY 290 and PSY 200 or 320
New Prerequisite: PSY 290 and PSY 200 or 320 or Instructor Permission
● Priorities and Planning – Patrick Murphy
Will meet on Friday December 30.
● Graduate Council – Sandy Bargainnier
Graduate Council did not meet, but all of the graduate directors and program coordinators met last Thursday and/or Friday. They talked about the role of the graduate coordinator.
The next meeting is December 4 and the council requires paperwork to be submitted by November 30.
● Personnel and Policies – Gwen Kay
PPC did not meet.
· General Education Council – Michael Nehring
The council is in support of the removal of the requirement that the courses for World Awareness must come from two different subcategories. The council also supports in maintaining the different subcategories.
VIII. Elections
General Education Council
School of Business John MacDonald 14-17 Accounting, Finance & Law
Student Issues and ConcernsCouncil
At-large Michelle Kent 15-17 Office of Learning Services
IX. Unfinished Business
The Academic Facilities Access Policy, already approved by the President’s Council, was distributed at the last meeting for faculty comment. A question was raised about the training required in advance of applying to use a particular space, but it is believed that if a space will not be available at all, it will be made known prior to any training.
A motion was made, seconded and approved to go back to elections. Brad Korbesmeyer was nominated and elected to the Student Association Senate 14-15.
Proposal to abolish the rule stipulating that in order for a second World Awareness course to be included in a student’s General Education program it must be from a sub-group different from that of the student’s first World Awareness course. Passed 37 – 2
The World Awareness subcategories will remain.
X. New Business
There was no new business.
Meeting adjourned 4:47 pm.
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