Photo Credit:
Dr. James Hassett
College-wide Meeting
October 29, 2014, 12:45 PM, Gateway A&B
Agenda
• Announcements
– Worker’s compensation (Summer)
– Visioning Draft (due 11/1)
– Prioritization Meeting 1/8/14
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Resolution on Regalia Cords for Veterans
Library Advisory Report
Curriculum Report
UFS Report
Middle States
Resolution on Regalia Cords
for ESF Veterans
Florida State
Walsh College
http://news.fsu.edu/More-FSUNews/24-7-NewsArchive/2012/August/Universityrecognizes-veterans-with-honor-cordsat-graduation
http://www.walshcollege.edu/news/militarygrantprogram
2014 Library Committee Report
• Members: Gordon Patterson
Stewart Diemont
Steve Weiter – Liaison
Please JOIN !!!
CHARGE:
The Purpose of the Library Advisory Committee is to ensure
that the ESF Library and its partners provide the resources
that are needed by faculty and students. They will be
concerned with advising, informing decisions, and problemsolving involving library content and access to content; and
serve to facilitate two-way communication between library
users (faculty and students) and decision-makers at the
College level.
Good Stuff
• 2014 Annual Report
• Strategic Realignment of Staff and Resources
to meet current needs - offer better services.
• Grant pending to bring a 3-D printer to
campus
• Document Delivery
• Digital Repository
• More to come…
Digital Commons
Challenges
• Loss of one part-time staff member
• State-wide Contract for Science Direct
• Steady Increase in STEM Journal Prices (6% on
average in 2014-15)
• Maintaining as many critical electronic
resources as possible with limited budgetary
flexibility.
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https://medium.com/biblio/why-libraries-still-matter-3df27e7522cb
Moving forward
• Reduction of weekend hours beginning Spring
2015 Semester.
• Continuation of adaptive flexible approach to
services and meeting demands
• Rejuvenation of the Archives and Special
Collections
• Increased/Continued Collaboration with other
Academic Departments/Units.
Curriculum Committee
Annual Report AY13-14
Faculty Governance 10/29/14
Governance-Approved Curricula and
Policies
Program Deactivation, Reactivation, Discontinuation Policy
Graduate Exam Policy Update
FNRM Curriculum Changes (revision to conform to SUNY General Education
Requirements)
BS Environmental Science (Revision to credit hour requirement)
Marine Science Minor
Native Peoples and Environment Minor
Physics Minor
Computer and Information Technology Minor (revision)
Math Minor
Environmental Writing and Rhetoric Minor (revision)
Environmental Studies curriculum revision
CoC-approved New Courses
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FCH 232
EST 255
FOR 740
ERE 545
ERE 488
FOR 458/658
General Education: Adoption of Syracuse University
foreign language courses
CoC-approved Course Revisions
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FCH 511
FOR 340
FOR 540
EWP 407
EWP 444
FCH 110 (General Education)
FOR 232
Deletion of 10 inactive EFB courses
CME 387/587
CME 422/622
FOR 333/533
FOR 454
FOR 499
ERE 640
ERE 489
Assessment and Forecast
• Staff assistant (Barbara Newman)
– substantially improved quality of proposals submitted to CoC.
– primary point of contact to assist proposers
– facilitate communication between proposers and CoC.
• CoC members charged with responsibility as liaison to
departments/programs.
• All proposals reviewed and affirmed by potentially affected parties.
• Adherence to deadlines reduced year-end stress and improved process
quality.
• Acceptance of Foreign Language courses to meet General Education
Requirements
• Programs review for conformance with SUNY GER policy improves student
transfer experience.
• Identified a compelling need for coordinated academic policy
communication, development, review
• Improved alignment with SUNY new program proposal process
CoC
• Webpage:
http://www.esf.edu/coc/default.htm
• Email: curriculum@esf.edu
• Deadlines:
– Programs: February 25, 2015
– Courses : March 11, 2015
2014 University Faculty Senate Report
Fall Plenary was held here.
Many thanks to everyone on Campus who helped make it
a success:
Katherina Searing
Lauren Gibbs
ITS – Christopher Baycura/Ross Jacobs/Charlene
Grabowski and Todd Torrence
Bruce Bongarten
Kelley Donaghy
Quentin Wheeler/Ragan Squier
Resolutions Passed
1. Sexual Assault Prevention
2. Requesting establishment of programs supporting LGBT
Athletes, Coaches & Staff to prevent bias and
discrimination in athletics
3. Requesting input on SUNY Excels Performance Measures
4. Requesting an end to the limitation on the Maximum
hours student assistants can work
5. Textbook affordability
6. Expansion of SUNY undergraduate research and creative
endeavors
7. Encouraging the availability of Naloxone to campus police
departments in order to treat heroin overdoses
Other Major Issues Discussed
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Elsevier Contract Negotiations
SUNY Budget and Charge-backs to Campuses
SUNY strategic planning/ SUNY Excels plan
Reports, Resolution text, and other info is at
http://system.suny.edu/facultysenate/plenarymeetings/ (or will be there soon)
• Seamless Transfer – in particular denial of
waivers/loss of identity/program impacts
• Questions???
Middle States
General Education
• Standard 12
“The institution’s curricula are designed so that students
acquire and demonstrate college-level proficiency in
general education and essential skills, including at least
oral and written communication, scientific and
quantitative reasoning, critical analysis and reasoning,
and technological competency.”
From: Characteristics of excellence in higher Education:
Requirements of Affiliation and Standards for
Accreditation, http://www.msche.org/publications.asp
This year…
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Focus on the process!
Capstones/select assignments/test questions
Incomplete data set
Not expecting to do well in certain categories
Review Process
• Establish Learning Outcomes and create
rubrics
• Collect materials to be graded with rubric
– Examples of student work (not grades)
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Apply rubrics
Analyze Data
Meet with faculty about the analysis
Develop Recommendations
All by January 2015!
Who?
• Area Specialists
– Nasri Abdel-Aziz – Quantitative Reasoning
– Benette Whitmore – Communications
– Kelley Donaghy/Bruce Bongarten – Scientific
Reasoning
– Scott Shannon/Valerie Luzadis - Values, Ethics, and
Diverse Perspectives
– Technological Literacy
– Critical Thinking – pulled from above
• Committee on Institutional Quality and
Academic Standards
Timeline
10/10/14 - Establish Learning Outcomes and
create rubrics
10/31/14 - Collect materials to be graded with
rubric
• 11/20/14 - Apply rubrics
• 12/15/14 – Data Analysis
• 1/31/15 - Meet with faculty about the analysis
• 2/15/15 - Develop Recommendations
Next
College-wide
Meeting
November 19
Wednesday
12:45 PM
Gateway A&B
Photo Credit:
Dr. James Hassett