Faculty Assembly Minutes May 4, 2015

Chair: Joan M. CarrollRecorder: Sarah Balseiro

Members Absent:

ENG –Amy Shore / M&M – June Dong / POL – ______
SA – ______/ SA – ______/ SA – ______
SA – ______/ THT – JonelLangenfeld-Rial

The meeting was called to order at 3:09pm.

  1. Approval of Agenda – The agenda was approved as distributed.
  1. Approval of minutes of April 6 and 20, 2015meetings – The minutes of April 6 were approved as distributed; The April 20 minutes were approved with minor corrections.
  1. FA Chair’s Report – Joan Carroll
  1. Campus Concept Committee – updating Facilities Master Plan; will be asking for your input. Still need a co-chair for next year.
  2. Commencement – May 16 – part of our academic obligation. If you or any of your colleagues need a gown, contact the college Store by May 5; no charge for faculty.
  3. Please continue to send electronic copies of all handouts and reports to . Sarah or Greg will convert handouts to PDF for posting on our website and sharing through Google Drive.
  4. Please continue to support our green initiatives by bringing your own reusable beverage container to FA meetings.
  1. Reports of Councils, Committees, and Task Force

●Personnel Policies Council–Gwen Kay

The Vice-chair of Faculty Assembly cast a vote of acclamation on behalf of the faculty, reelecting Joan Carroll as Faculty assembly Chair.

●Priorities and Planning Council – Linda Rae Markert

Met April 24th and approved the Department of Marketing & Management’s proposed new Graduate Certificate program in Nursing Home Administration.

With the Interim Dean for Graduate Studies, we discussed the new Graduate Assistantship Request Form. He also shared his thoughts regarding how graduate assistantships might be differently funded in future years. For the upcoming 2015-16 year, GA allocations will be made as they have been for the past many years.

The Provost’s Office will schedule a meeting date in the summer for the Council members to meet with the academic deans to discuss pending requests for faculty lines and searches.

Al Stamm announced he will be on sabbatical during the fall 2015 semester and will thus be unable to Chair the Council.

●General Education Council– Michael Nehring

The General Education Council approved the Electrical and Computer Engineering: computer and information literacy infusion plan and the critical thinking infusion plan.

●Undergraduate Curriculum Committee– LenutaGuikin

The following courses proposals were discussed and approved by the council:

COG 435 / PSY 435Cognitive Systems (crosslisted)

HDV 364Motivation across the Lifespan

HIS 298Historical Methods

GST 307Oswego Children's Project: Advanced Training and Site Placement

The following prerequisite changes were approved:

MAT 357: Applied Regression Analysis
Current Prerequisite(s): MAT 258 or 318

New Prerequisite(s): MAT 258 or 318 or 354

MAT 358: Design and Analysis of Experiments

Current Prerequisite(s): MAT 258 or 318

New Prerequisite(s): MAT 258 or 318 or 354

  1. Unfinished Business.
  • Proposed revisions to Wellness Management BS(Health Promotion & Wellness Department) Passed 39–1
  • Proposed revisions to Mathematics programs:

Applied Mathematics BSPassed 41-0

Mathematics BAPassed 41-0

Mathematics minorPassed 40-3

  • Proposed DSA Schedule

Lori Nash proposed a motion that we add footnote 2 to the DSA Schedule stating that the Online Activity Report requirement does not apply to part-time faculty. Also corrected the day of May 26th (Tuesday instead of Monday).Proposed revisions passed unanimously. Revised DSA schedule Passed 42-0

  • Proposed Hybrid Course Policy

There was some discussion about this proposal. Rameen said that the dean’s and chair’s rolesare to approve the creation of a hybrid course.

Patrick Murphy asked who decides if a course is a hybrid course and what if one person wants to take a previously existing online course and turn it into a hybrid course?Or vice versa? Someone answered that it should be a fairly simple transition because people are working with instructional design people to make these courses.

Someone asked about exams, and someone else responded by saying that it’s up to the faculty members whether or not they want to have exams online or in class. It just needs to be made clear in the hybrid course documents so that the students know when and where they should commit the time for exams.

Rameen clarified that the department chair needs to approve the course offering. Pat Murphy asked if the department chair still signed off on what courses are offered in each term after these hybrid courses have been developed. Someone responded that yes, this is the case. APC made it clear that every time a hybrid course is offered, the Department chair is part of that discussion. Passed 35-5

  1. New BusinessNo new business.

One final announcement – many members’ terms are ending this year so Joan will send out information to the list-serv.

Meeting adjourned at 3:45 pm.

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