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

Ad Hoc Committee on General Education

Report to the College Senate: 9/24/2012

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.

Goals

1) craft a recommendation on creation of apermanent 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.

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.

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.

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)

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

Committee Roster and Attributes• AA2 1 Rhea Nowak• AH2 1 Timothy 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

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

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

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

Action Plan: Phase 3Formulation

Transfer issuesOutcomes-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