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University Faculty Senate: Committee Planning Meeting 9/20-21/2012

University Faculty Senate: Committee Planning Meeting 9/20-21/2012. Need feedback (by 9/28) on expected BAM impacts to instruction Later this year, Governance Committee will facilitate a SUNY Learning Commons (SUNY-wide) faculty caucus on academic freedom

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University Faculty Senate: Committee Planning Meeting 9/20-21/2012

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  1. University Faculty Senate: Committee Planning Meeting 9/20-21/2012 • Need feedback (by 9/28) on expected BAM impacts to instruction • Later this year, Governance Committee will facilitate a SUNY Learning Commons (SUNY-wide) faculty caucus on academic freedom • System-wide push for undergraduate research • Graduate Research Symposium (LOB-2/26/13) • Faculty Intellectual Property Rights—Report to be made available under the “Faculty” toolbar on the SUNY Provost’s website: www.suny.edu • General Education review by Undergraduate Committee and others

  2. Ad Hoc Committee on General Education Report to the College Senate: 9/24/2012

  3. Charge • To consider all aspects of SUNY Oneonta’s current General Education curriculum; • to develop potential models for the faculty to consider, including suggestions for enhancing transferability; • to report out to the College Senate after preliminary review and feedback by the College Curriculum Committee.

  4. Goals • craft a recommendation on creation of a permanent governance body to review and oversee General Education; 2) present recommendations for models of general education curricula to CCC and then College Senate. Consideration of models to include best practices in outcomes-based assessment and transfer- students’ needs.

  5. What We Will NOT Do • Make recommendations as to what course or courses should or not be in any configuration, beyond the possibility of first-year or interdisciplinary courses IF the Committee so decides; • Recommend changes to College Policy or governance, beyond suggesting creation of a standing committee in keeping with (then) current bylaws.

  6. What We Will Do • Consider the creation of a standing General Education Review Committee after consultation about appropriate governance requirements; • Recommend models for (core) General Education curricula after fact-finding, research and consultation with the faculty of the College; • Consider and present options to facilitate transfer to the College at Oneonta; • Include all 400+ courses in the current Gen Ed list within whatever models we offer.

  7. Outreach to Date • College Senate (9/10 & 9/24) • Academic Master Plan, Phase 1 (9/13) • Council of Chairs (9/13) • College Curriculum Committee (9/12) • General Education Assessment Committee (9/18) • Associate Dean of Business… (9/14) • Division of Education (9/19) • *Human Ecology • Music (9/24; follow-up 10/4) • Provost, President and Associate Provost (9/11-9/24)

  8. Committee Composition • Faculty from current General Education silos & campus-specific attributes • Representatives from “Pillars Groups”—Sustainability, Diversity and Globalization • Admissions, Academic Advisement, Registrar • CADE, Library, CSRC, First-Year Experience; AMP • Students • Liaison (non-voting) from GEAC

  9. Committee Roster and Attributes • AA2 1 Rhea Nowak • AH2 1Timothy Newton • BC2 1 Richard Lee • FL2 1 Elizabeth Small • HA2 1 Miguel Leon • HO2 1+ Robert Compton • HW2 1+ TBD: Philosophy • M2 1 James Ruffo • N2 2+ Martha Growdon; Sunil Labroo • OS2 1+ Jon Arakaki • S2 2+ Charlene Christie; Wendy Mitteager; John Relethford • WS2 TBD, or overarching representation

  10. Committee Roster & Constituencies • Jon Arakaki Communication Arts; OS2 • Karen Brown Admissions • Richard Cebada Student Association • Charlene Christie Psychology; WGS; S2; PACS (Sustainability Pillar); AMP • Robert Compton Political Science & ALS (Chair); HO2; Globalization Pillar • Amy Crouse-Powers CADE • Pamela Flinton Library • Monica Grau First-Year Experience • Martha Growdon Earth Sciences; N2; Steering Committee • Ian Kenyon Student Association • Sunil Labroo Physics; N2; STEM • Richard Lee English; BC2; UFS; Steering Committee • Miguel Leon History; HA2; PCOD (Diversity Pillar) • Eileen McClafferty Academic Advisement • Wendy Mitteager Geography; S2; CSRC • Timothy Newton Music; AH2; Honors Program • Rhea Nowak Fine Arts; AA2 • TBD Philosophy; HW2 • John Relethford Anthropology; S2 • James Ruffo Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics; M2 • Elizabeth Small Foreign Languages (Chair); FL2; PCOD • Deborah Sperano Registrar

  11. Action Plan: Phase 1Planning • Staff Committee with balanced representation, at-large members • Create charge / Establish goals • Enable transparent, campus-wide interaction (Angel “class”) • Organizational meeting (Friday, 3:00pm?, 10/5?) • Elect Chair, establish Writing Committee, Task Groups, assign Input and Outreach Activities, others TBD

  12. Action Plan: Phase 2 –Data & Information gathering • Open faculty forum (off-week for Senate: 10/22?). Short presentations by reps from Business, Music, HuEco, Education • Gen Ed “retreat” (Saturday, from 9-3: 11/3?). Committee and others, TBD

  13. Action Plan: Phase 3Formulation • Transfer issues • Outcomes-based assessment language (if needed in addition to SUNY GER) • Writing Committee takes charge of final version of Ad Hoc Committee’s recommendations: present to CCC for disciplinary/departmental input • Revisions as necessary and/or consultation with CCC prior to presentation to Senate

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