College-wide Governance Meeting
March 23, 2011, 3:30 PM
Baker 408
Agenda
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Minutes from 2/10/11
Committee Reports
Research Office Updates
Course Evaluations
Bylaws
Elections
Budget Resolution
Patrick McCloskey,
Technical Transfer Office
SUNY Research
Foundation
Neil Ringler SUNY ESF
Guiding Principles
• “If we knew what we were doing, it would
not call be called Research”
• “If you want to go fast; go alone. If you
want to go far; go together”
Basics of Inventions
• Four Types of Intellectual Property
– Patents, Copyright, Trade Secret, TradeMark
• Why IP is Important
– Creates a format to trade your creativity
• What is not Intellectual Property
– Ideas (no matter how bad or how good)
– Must show how to make and use
Critical Steps
• Unintended Loss of Rights
– Failure to secure Confidentiality
– Publish before Patenting
• Time to contact technology transfer
– After Innovation; Before Publishing
• General Timelines
– Deferred Costs while matching with Industry Partner
• Patent Process is linear
• Commercialization is not linear
Opportunity
• Opportunity for What?
– Translating Research into Societal Impact
– Getting your innovation to the end use
– New directions and personal growth through
diversity (investors, stakeholders)
• Design for Opportunity
• Recognize Opportunity
• Pursue IT
Research on 1-D Continuum
(“Basic or applied?”)
Applied Research
Refine Technology
Seek Control
Basic Research
Increase Knowledge
Seek Understanding
Research in 2-D
(“Understanding & its uses are allies”)
Applied Research
Refine Technology
Seek Control
Basic Research
Increase Knowledge
Seek Understanding
Considerations of Use?
Pasteur’s Quadrant (Stokes, 1997)
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no
Pure applied research
Edison
Use-inspired
basic research
Pasteur
Idle curiosity,
Philosophical inquiry
Pure basic
research
Watson & Crick
no
yes
Quest for Fundamental Understanding?
Designing Opportunity
• Work in Pasteur’s Quadrant
• Involve Collaborator’s and Early Adaptors
– Scientific Collaborators in Industry
– Use Legal Vehicles to Protect Rights
– Use Good Judgment on how to get enough
attention to sign CDA
Recognizing Opportunity
• Goes Beyond Identifying A Problem
• Innovation Clearly Addresses the Unmet
Need
• Working Model or Prototype
• Other Arenas (infringement and
consolidated IP; legal angles)
Highest Potential; add
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Internal Champion
Scalable
No one even close
High Unmet Need
Driven by Industry Sponsored Research
Pursue IT
• License or Sell the IP; we license to retain
some control
• Market the Innovation; your publication
and presentations
• Identify Interested Industry Partners
– Do you know where your students are?
Pursue IT; on your own
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The “Start-up”
Secure Capital, Mentor and Management
Investors Prefer Proximity
Start here and end there; many companies
are successful on tangents and
opportunities learned while working with
investors
Recap
• Designing Opportunity
– Pasteur’s Quadrant
• Recognizing Opportunity
– Stay Close to the Customer
– Be flexible
• Pursue IT
– Indirect License
– Direct Start-up
Course Surveys
1. Instructor Control of opening and closing
dates
2. Courses without lab will no longer have
the lab questions
3. Results will be available in a spreadsheet
Still to come:
Individualized questions
Overview of entire instrument
Special thanks
David Soderberg
Bylaws
• All Amendments Passed!
• 51 Votes
• Amendments and New Bylaws Posted
Amendment #1
• Summary: This amendment will remove the
waiting period for instructors, assistant librarians
and research assistants. It brings the definition
of voting faculty in line with the SUNY Board of
Trustees Policies.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 47 - nay 3 - abstain 1)
Amendment #2
• Summary: This amendment clarifies the
Sergeant-at-Arms duty and changes the number
of faculty needed to establish a quorum.
1. A quorum shall consist of the voting faculty
present at the meeting providing that at least
one representative from each of half the
academic departments is present with the
exception of Special Meetings, as described in
Section II, Subsection B.1, where a quorum shall
consist of one-third (1/3) of the voting faculty.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 41 - nay 10 - abstain 0)
Amendment #3
• Summary: This amendment moves the
population of the standing committees to the
departmental level instead of a college-wide
election system. Additionally, members of the
college administrative staff will also be formally
acknowledged and provide representatives to
the committees.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 40 - nay 11 - abstain 0)
Amendment #4
• Summary: This amendment describes the
election of officers to the Executive Committee
and provides a pathway for populating
committee chairs in the absence of a decision in
the College-wide elections. NOTE: Adjustments
to this amendment will be made based on the
outcome of the vote on the amendments
establishing committees. The only adjustments
will be the names of the committees listed.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 47 - nay 4 - abstain 0)
Amendment #5
• Summary: This amendment changes the
number of standing committees but is
dependent on the outcome of the amendments
splitting and forming new committees. NOTE:
Adjustments to this amendment will be made
based on the outcome of the vote on the
amendments establishing committees. The only
adjustments will be the names of the committees
listed.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 47 - nay 4 - abstain 0)
Amendment #6
• Summary: This amendment is to clarify the
wording such that it is understood that faculty
can only recommend changes to the President.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 45 - nay 6 - abstain 0)
Amendment #7
• Summary: This amendment will require that
committees bring forth policy matters to Collegewide Faculty meetings for ratification. Policy can
be anything from the end-of-course surveys to
how student excuses will be validated, it is,
however, not course proposals.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 47 - nay 4 - abstain 0)
Amendment #8
• Summary: This amendment separates the
Committee on Instruction and its three
subcommittees into two standing committees,
Curriculum and Instructional Quality and
Academic Standards.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 43 - nay 7 - abstain 1)
Amendment #9
• Summary: This amendment modernizes the
scope and responsibilities of the committee on
research and provides guidelines for its
population.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 46 - nay 5 - abstain 0)
Amendment #10
• Summary: This amendment modernizes the
scope and responsibilities of the committee on
public service and outreach and provides
guidelines for its population.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 43 - nay 7 - abstain 1)
Amendment #11
• Summary: This amendment establishes a
committee on student life.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 43 - nay 7 - abstain 1)
Amendment #12
• Summary: This amendment creates the
College-wide Promotion and Tenure Committee
as outlined in the College-wide P&T Guidelines.
PASSED 3/17/2011
(yea 44 - nay 6 - abstain 1)
Call for Nominations
Current Elected Members of the
Executive Committee
• Chair – Kelley Donaghy (2012)
• Secretary – Ruth Yanai (2011)
• Chairs of all Committees (2011)
– Frair/Manno/Doelle/Smith
• SUNY Senator – Klaus Doelle (2011)
• SUNY Senator Alternate – Lisa Campagna (2012)
• SU Senators – Kelley Donaghy (2012) and Steve Weiter
(2013)
• Parliamentarian* – Steve Weiter (2013)
• Sargeant-at-arms* – Larry Abrahamson (2011)
Call for Nominations
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Secretary
SUNY-Senator
Chair of Research
Chair of Curriculum
Chair of Instructional Quality and Academic
Standards
Chair of Public Service and Outreach (1-year
interim)
Chair of Student Life
Chair of Awards (1-year interim)
Chair of Promotion and Tenure
Secretary
SUNY Senator
• Klaus Doelle (accepted/incumbent)
Chair of Curriculum
Chair of Instructional
Quality/Academic Standards
• Paul Crovella (has not accepted)
Chair of Research
• Phillipe Vidon (accepted)
Chair of Awards (1-year interim)
• Jack Manno (accepted/incumbent)
Chair of Public Service and
Outreach (1-year interim)
• Melissa Fierke (accepted)
Chair of Student Life
• Greg McGee (has not accepted)
Promotion and Tenure
• Must be a full professor to serve and not a
Chair
• Elect the body and then they will elect a
chair
SUNY-Budget/Tuition Resolution
• Course Reductions
– 10-20% of our students unable to take critical
courses in sequence for 4 year graduation
• Hiring Freeze (staff and faculty)
– 12 open/unfilled positions
– 30 more retirements over the next 3 years
• Syracuse University
– Accessory Credits