Chair: Lisa M. Glidden Recorder: Lisa Teters

Faculty Assembly Minutes September 25, 2017 Chair: Lisa M. Glidden Recorder: Lisa Teters

Members Absent: Marianne Hromalik Joshua Adams Scott Roby Judith Belt Paul Stewart

The meeting was called to order at 3:05 pm.

Approval of Agenda – The agenda was approved.

Minutes of May 1, 2017 were approved unanimously.

Minutes of September 11, 2017 were approved with corrections.

FA Chair’s Report— No report this meeting

Reports of Councils, Committees, and Task Forces Personnel Policies Council (Elizabeth Schmitt) PPC is recommending departments clarify requirements for retention in their departmental bylaws. They are asking departments to share, and will ask for permission to share best practices. Undergraduate Curriculum Council (Brian Moritz) The undergraduate curriculum council reviewed and approved two memos from the Psychology department requesting changes to the Depth course offerings in the psychology major, psychology BA/MBA program and psychology BNHC MA program.

UCC approved the following: New and Updated courses ART443 (update): Advanced Digital Photography ZOO374 (update): Field Ornithology GLS305 (new): Topics in Global & Int'l Studies GEO308 (update): Geology of New York State PSY485 (new): Prevention Science & Practice COM423 (new): Diversity, Identity, and Communication ANT337 (new): Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) POL306 (new): American Immigration Politics (subsequently removed—see 10/9/17 minutes) BRC301 (update): Media Economics BRC400 (update): Media and Society PSY461 (new): Brain Injury and Psychopathology PSY201 (new): Drugs & Behavior FRE340 (update): French Literature in Translation

Prerequisite changes FRE 320: French Phonetics Current Prerequisite(s): French 202 or equivalent New Prerequisite(s): Instructor Permission 1 C. Academic Policies Council (Eve Clark)— Academic Policy Council Committee Report for FA September 25

APC met on Friday, September 15. We held elections and Mary McCune was elected recorder and Eve Clark was voted in reporter.  APC approved the proposal for the creation of the Dance Minor with minor changes which is on the floor for review.  We also reviewed a proposal for changes to the Public Justice major and returned the proposal with some questions back to the department  APC approved the addition to the Computer Information Literacy Plan for Philosophy and Music Majors with the following language: “Any approved General Education computer and information literacy course - OR - passing the computer and information literacy competency exam.”  APC also approved the edition of two courses for the Psychology Depth courses, PSY 461 and PSY 465 to their Clinic/Social area  APC also approved the removal of PSY 451, 454, 455 and 459 to their Depth Courses in the Clinic/Social area within the major APC will meet this week on Friday, September 25 at 3:00 pm.

D. Grad Council (Sandy Bargainnier) Sandy Bargainnier was unanimously elected Chair of the Council and will also serve as reporter to FA. Isabelle Bichindaritz will serve as recorder.  Graduate Dean Kristen Eichhorn presented to the Council  Note that business before the Council should be submitted by Monday if it is to be reviewed at the Friday meeting  The remaining meetings for the semester are: 9/29, 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17, and 12/1 if needed

Elections Chris Hebblethwaite was elected to the Library seat for Grad Council William Canning was elected to the At-Large seat on the Campus Concept Committee.

The following seats are still open: Personnel Policies Council 1 at-large seat (17-19) Academic Policies Council 1 at-large seat (17-19) Student Issues and Concerns 2 at-large seats (17-19) Undergraduate Curriculum 1 School of Ed seat (17-18) Campus Concept Committee 1 School of Bus. Seat (17-20) 1 at-large seat (17-20) Assessment Advisory Comm 1 CLAS SBS seat

College Hour Task Force Casey Raymond was elected to one of the CLAS seats. Faculty Assembly Minutes September 25, 2017 Chair: Lisa M. Glidden Recorder: Lisa Teters

The following seats remain open: 1 CLAS or Library member 1 SCMA faculty member 1 School of Bus. Faculty member 1 Professional staff member

VII. College Calendar 2021-22 Liz Schmitt, PPC Chair, noted that the calendar was created using rules that were approved by the Faculty Assembly. If we have any concerns about the calendar, we would need to address the rules, not this particular calendar.

Approved: 38 in favor, 2 opposed

VIII. Integrated Media and Social Networks Graduate Certificate Approved unanimously.

IX. Modern Languages and Literature Majors Revision To approve a mandatory study abroad experience for the French, German, and Spanish majors Approved: 39 in favor, 1 opposed To approve a six-credit stud abroad experience for the Language and International Trade major Approved: 39 in favor, 1 opposed

X. O-Team Update Kayle Light-Curtain and Adrienne McCormick presented on the O-TEAM pilot program, which will run for two years. Students in some programs without a professional advisor get a professional advisor, faculty mentor, Librarian, and Career Coach. Ideally the professional advisor would follow the student through all four years of their undergraduate experience, even if they change majors, although we are only running the pilot for two years. This is one of the reasons they are trying to gather as much feedback and data as possible in the two years.

Adrienne McCormick asked representatives to please share the information about this program out with their departments, and directed them to reference the O-TEAM website for more information.

See presentation here

XI. Carnegie Classification 2020 for Community Engagement Christy Hyunh presented the history of our first (successful) application to be a Community Engagement campus, as well as the timeline for applying for a second classification. She noted that the application process should be easier this time around because we are collecting so much more data on the measures we would have to report on in the application. This is because much of the information is already being collected as indicators in the Tomorrow plan, as well as because of information we had to provide in the first application. We will vote to approve the campus’s 2020 application at the next FA meeting. 3 See presentation here.

 We will vote to approve the campus’s 2020 application at the 10/9/17 FA meeting.

XII. Scholars at Risk Ulises Mejías, Director of the Institute of Global Engagement, seeks support to become a Contributing Member of Scholars at Risk, an organization that works with member institutions to work with threatened scholars. His video presentation summarized the many ways we could contribute, from hosting a scholar to hosting a speaker, to involving students in action campaigns, among others. The $1,000 membership would be paid for by the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Annual expenses of $1,000 to bring a Scholars at Risk speaker to campus would be paid by the Institute for Global Engagement. After two years, we will review our participation in the program. Scholars at Risk website is: scholarsatrisk.org

 we will vote on this proposal for membership on 10/9/17

I. New Business Casey Raymond (CHE) asked how one would go about changing the rules by which the calendar is made. He noted that in some years, depending on how holidays fall, the Chemistry department could have to cancel as much as four weeks of labs. In that case, the program is risking losing it accreditation from the American Chemistry Society (ACS). He noted that ACS does not allow online labs. He also noted that due to the large numbers of students in labs every week, they did not have extra time available to be able to run extra lab sections, except perhaps on the weekend.

Discussion ensued, but in short, the answer is that a motion to change the rules and a proposal of recommended changes should be introduced to the floor of Faculty Assembly.

Meeting adjourned 4:55 pm.