UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE PLANNING MEETING SUMMARY
SUNY PLAZA, ALBANY SEPTEMBER 13-14, 2002
Friday, Sept 13
Convened at 9:02am. New senators and standing committee members introduced.
President's Report and System Administration Liaison's Report
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Theme: Enhancing Quality in the Academic Agenda
- SUNY Master Plan 2000-2004 approved by NYS Board of Regents.
- 22 campuses-General Education plans approved
- 40 campuses-Assessments of Major approved
- New appointments to GEAR group
- Faculty Development Initiative now underway in Provost's Office
- PACGE to be replaced by ACGE, encouraging faculty primacy in
implementation of general education curriculum.
- SUNY-wide art exhibits to commence in SUNY System Gallery in
October.
- Establishment of research communities to facilitate expansion
of research initiatives
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Chancellor's Speech to Senate
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Change of early retirement to disallow mandatory 1-for-2 practice
for faculty replacement.
19 of 64 campuses recognized in national publications, despite
time of constrained public resources
Chancellor's Strategic Planning Process
- Allows SUNY to become best comprehensive university system
- What do we need? How do we know when we are there?
- Establishment of a 100-person task force
- 10 areas and measurements of achievement
o focus on student success
o enhance each campus's excellence and distinctiveness
o extend access to technologically mediated learning (SUNY Learning
Network)
o enhance international activities and programs
o develop predictable streams of income
o optimize capital investment
o establish a SUNY leadership initiative
o increased business collaboration
o optimize System Administration
o enhance the public image of SUNY Performance measurements for
SUNY
- Access
- Quality of student success
- Research
- Economic impact of graduates and programs
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Budget Update
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Brian Stenson, Assistant Provost for Financial Affairs
- SUNY Financial Plan adopted in June
- Early retirement incentives loosened. No caps on filled positions
More ability to refill positions
- July update - receipts and disbursements compared to projection
o Receipts down 250 million, weak in all categories
o Disbursements on projections
o 1.25 billion negative flow yielding a balance of 716 million
- Mid year budget adjustment not definite now
- Outlook for fiscal 03-04 not good - 7 billion shortfall
- Tuition increase is speculative now, could be used to offset
reduction
- Some surpluses used to offset losses
- 20 million in additional student fees also
- 225 million to early retirement progam
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Standing Committee Planning Reports to Executive Committee, New
Senators and Committee Members Awards
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- Further articulation of the Distinguished Teaching and Distinguished
Service Professorships.
- Establishment of a Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service.
- Continuance of CID program-$30,000 total, $5,000 per award
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Governance Committee
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Commencing a Bylaws Archive, every campus asked to submit electronic
version to President Hildreth at HildreJo@sysadm.suny.edu.
Faculty Opinion Survey given, results being compiled for study
Best Practices being surveyed for Bylaws, Campus Support of Governance,
and Staff/Administrative Review.
Other topics - Administrative and part-time faculty participation
in governance Local faculty response to Senate resolutions
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Graduate/Research Committee
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Developing analyses of Research Foundation practices Lack of support
for switch to Oracle, information debacle Studying effect of Teacher
Certification changes on graduate study in education Funding sources
for new "communities"
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Operations Committee
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Will update the Budget Handbook via continued extensive research
into SUNY Campuses' budget practices Analyzing the advocacy and
empowerment of good operations procedures
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Public Information Committee
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Requested new simplified charge- "To facilitate communication among
the membership of the University Faculty Senate and the faculty
and professional staff of SUNY." Moved, seconded, approved without
dissent. Continued updating of senate web site http://www.ufs.suny.edu/
Considering a served website and a simplified set of content providers
Supervising move of site to SysAdmin servers
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Student Life Committee
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Beginning evaluation of data from Retention Symposium Symposium
awards to be given at fall meeting Continuing collaboration with
the Undergraduate Committee Beginning Student Success Initiative
with Chancellor's Office Studying international student issues
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Undergraduate Committee
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Areas of investigation- transferability, transfers and attrition,
international education, internships, assessment and learning outcomes,
plagiarism Continued collaboration with Student Life Committee
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Additional reports to Executive Committee
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Transfer Initiative (Marvin LaHood and Joe Hildreth) - systems
at UC, U/MD and U/AZ studied. Facilitate transfer of 2-year students
to 4-year colleges. Common general education course numberings based
on learning outcomes, not syllabi or descriptions. A ten-year-long
beginning and an ongoing process. Perhaps by a panel of 9 faculty
- 3 CC, 3 StateOps, 3 Univ. Centers Budget (Ram Chugh) - areas to
be studied: stable policy, stable funding, enrollment increases,
instructional technology, effectiveness and efficiency in allocation
process, accountability, "truth in budgeting," affordability and
accessibility in public education, non-reliance on tuition and state
funding.
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Faculty Senate Bulletin
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Editor Norm Goodman requested senators' newsworthy activities across
the last five years. The first issue of the Bulletin will be a "State
o the Senate" issue.
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New Business
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Lively discussion of plagiarism at various campuses. Anecdotal
discussion. No plan or strategy formulated.
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Next meeting
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October 17-19 at Purchase College. CGLs also attending. Plenary
speaker will be Trustee Randy Daniels. Theme is "Enhancing Quality
in the Academic Agenda."
Adjourned at 10:25am Saturday, Sept 14.
Prepared by Jim McElwaine Vice President and Secretary
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