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University Senate
Monday, February 8, 2016
Approval of SEC Minutes of February 8, 2016
Provost’s Report – James Stellar
Report on Public Engagement Initiatives –Darrell Wheeler, Dean of Social Welfare
and Vice Provost for Student Engagement
Report from Applied Learning Steering Committee --Linda Krzykowski, Debra Gelinas,
Senate Chair’s Report – Cynthia Fox
Other reports
Approval of Changes in Council Memberships
New Business
A. PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH A GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN TESOL
ONLINE
Adjournment
Approval of Minutes of February 8, 2016
Provost’s Report – James Stellar
Report on Public Engagement Initiatives –Darrell Wheeler
Dean of Social Welfare and
Vice Provost for Student Engagement
Senate Bill 1516-03
UNIVERSITY SENATE
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Introduced by:
Graduate Academic Council
University Planning & Policy Council
Date:
February 8, 2016
PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH A GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN
TESOL ONLINE
IT IS HEREBY PROPOSED THAT THE FOLLOWING BE ADOPTED:
•That the University Senate approves the attached proposal to establish a
graduate certificate program in TESOL Online as approved by the Graduate
Academic Council and University Planning & Policy Council.
•That this proposal be forwarded to the President for approval.
Senate Chair’s Report – Cynthia Fox
I. Informational
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The monthly meeting of the Senate officers with the Provost and the President’s Chief of Staff
occurred on Thursday, February 18. Topics discussed included the Survey of Governance,
administrative review, the strategic planning process, and follow-up on the Graduate Stipend
report.
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Chair Fox has asked to attend the February 29 meeting of the Governance Council to discuss a
proposed resolution concerning participation by Emeriti at Senate meetings.
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The Senate leadership met with President Jones and Chief of Staff Wirkkula on February 26
for a briefing on recent developments in the CDTA incident.
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The Senate leadership is scheduled to meet with Chief of Staff Wirkkula on March 7 to discuss
administrative review.
II. Actions Taken
N/A
III. Reports of Actions
N/A
SUNY Senators’ Report – J. Philippe Abraham, John Schmidt and Walter Little
Report from the 172 UFS (SUNY-wide Senate) Plenary at Stony Brook, Jan 21-23,
2016 (1 of 7)
Governors’s Budget to Legislature. The overall state budget was limited to an overall
increase of 2%, as the Governor has consistently advocated. However, SUNY’s base
budget was decreased by $-67M (-3.5%; $1.870B, down from $1.935B last year. For
the State Operated campuses (our category) the decrease was $-4.7M, down from
$712M last year. The Governor generally strips out the increases that the Legislature
put in the previous year, but in this case he left in the $18M investment fund for the
PIP program and the extra funding for the EOP, and added $10M for the green “Green
Campus Program”. Still the overall amount is less than last year, and also does not
cover incremental cost such as the increased utility costs or the negotiated salary
increases for UUP and other unions on campus. Therefore it constitutes a significant
cut, contrary to the wishes of the legislature that “maintenance of effort” (MOE) by
the state include these costs (separate bill passed last year but vetoed by the governor
in December). The budget proposes to extend the SUNY 2020 Plan which allows
increases in tuition of $300 per year, but it has inserted the language that SUNY must
find administrative savings (shared services, administrative cuts) to cover cost
increases without faculty/staff cuts, so that the increased tuition funds go exclusively
to hire more faculty and cover the TAP gap (difference between tuition and maximum
TAP $ per student). However, the tuition increase is not guaranteed. In an election
year, the legislature may be resistant to raising tuition costs. In addition, the governor’s decision to
raise the minimum wage at SUNY (which affects 30,000 work-study students) may cost SUNY up to
$26M per year. This may not occur, however, if the decision is made to cut the number of student
hours to keep the costs constant. There was a minimal capital budget that barely covers urgent
repairs in the many old buildings across all SUNY campuses.
The Chancellor was pessimistic about getting more money added to SUNY’s base allocation, saying
instead it was more likely we would get more money for specific attractive initiatives. She noted
that there were already big payoffs for their “systemness” initiatives on Seamless Transfer, Degree
Works, Open SUNY, early college in high school, decreased student debt and default rates on
student debt, collaboration between campuses and shared resources, etc. (Note: in spite of all
these improvements, she has not succeeded in getting more funding for SUNY). She met with
Assembly Speaker Heastie, Senate Leader Flanagan, and Senate Higher Ed Chair LaValle (who was
given a “Friend of SUNY Senate Award” at the plenary), and she has organized many regional
meetings with NY legislators during her campaign “Stand with SUNY.” She said that she was trying as
hard as she could, and added “I’m frustrated too.”
Thus, it is up to us to advocate with our legislators for greater (or lesser if you are so inclined) SUNY
funding to cover incremental cost increases, more money for the Performance Improvement
Programs and capital expenses, and to cover the costs of SUNY initiatives such as Applied Learning.
We are somewhat apprehensive that legislative attention to addressing SUNY’s needs will be lost in
the backwash of the effort to restore CUNY funding. The Governor has proposed cutting more than
$450M from CUNY, to force NY City to shoulder more of the burden. In contacting your
Assemblyman or Senator, remember to state that you are not an official SUNY representative and to
use your personal email account (not your albany.edu account).
Applied Learning (coops, internships, service learning, etc). As you recall, the previous
budget required SUNY to examine whether it should require an applied learning (AL) course
for all degrees, but left the final decision up to each campus. The timeline requires reporting
first by Feb 15 on all existing AL courses. The next installment (due April 15) covers further
data collection, and campus initiatives for faculty engagement, and student engagement, and
requires campus governance sign off on the document. These campus reports will then be put
together by the Applied Learning Steering Committee (ALSC) for the overall SUNY plan that
goes to the SUNY Board of Trustees at their meeting in June. The ALSC consists of the SUNY
Provost, Presidents of the UFS (SUNY Senate) and FCCC (Comm. College Council), selected
Distinguished Professors and several others from SUNY Central. They will also formulate the
guidelines for the final campus decisions and reports (which are due May 1, 2017). There will
also be a SUNY-wide conference on applied learning in October of this year.
We had reports from Stony Brook detailing their efforts to group AL into 4 categories:
EXP+ Experiential learning—service learning, now being implemented, and three others in
planning HFA+ Humanities and Fine Arts, SBS+ Social and Behavioral Science, and STEM+.
Oneonta reported on its efforts to shape the AL courses with the preparation of students,
contracts outlining expectations and rubrics beforehand and reflections-type of essays
required after completion. They feel that AL will enhance learning, encourage academic
excellence and diversity, and could be used to attract better students. In addition, SUNY
Central is developing software called “Internshop” that would seek to match employers with
interns.
The UFS has been very strongly involved in shaping AL because it involves a change in
curriculum which is the primary responsibility of the faculty as stated in the official policies of
the SUNY Board of Trustees, and thus an AL mandate should not just be imposed from above.
As a result of UFS and FCCC Presidents’ lobbying last year, the AL initiative was changed from a
legislative mandate to a local choice of each campus. AL courses furnish great opportunities
for students, but require considerable work and faculty support. Because of this, last April the
UFS passed a resolution setting five guiding principles for AL courses.
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AL courses should be the responsibility of qualified faculty members of the departments
within the relevant disciplines.
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Specific learning outcomes should be defined by faculty, who would also determine the
role that such courses play in the curriculum for each major.
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AL courses should be delivered with academic rigor and educational effectiveness.
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Faculty compensation and scheduling should be commensurate with that of other credit-
bearing courses.
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Implementation requires teamwork between faculty and student services personnel
(Career Services Office on our campus).
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The final campus plans require approval of Campus Governance Leaders, and we hope that
faculty will be fully engaged in this process and decision.
• Materials relating to AL can be found at the following places:
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The SUNY Policy statement may be viewed at
• <http://www.suny.edu/sunypp/documents.cfm?doc_id=168>. “When life or work
experience is to be credited as a concurrent portion of an academic program
design, as in an internship, one semester credit hour will be awarded for each 40-
45 clock-hour week of supervised academic activity that provides the learning
considered necessary to program study.”
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MSCHE provides specific guidance regarding internships in its advisory on
“Degrees and Credits [Effective June 26, 2009] (
http://www.msche.org/documents/Degree-and-Credit-Guidelines-062209-FINAL[1
].pdf
).” The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) expects its
institutions to demonstrate the same consistencies. Recognizing the wide variety
of instructional methods, activities, and modes of delivery, it is important for
courses to have “sufficient academic rigor, content, and depth” for transferability.
(Credit Hour Policy, Effective August 23, 2012, Rev. October 30, 2012,
• http://www.msche.org/documents/CreditHourPolicyRev112012.pdf).
• The UFS report on Service Learning and the UFS report on the SUNY Applied
Learning Initiative can be found at: www.system.suny.edu/facultysenate/plenary-
meetings/#d.en.26351.
•PIP Awards. In recent SUNY announcements, UAlbany was awarded $1.5M for a data
collection, intervention and retention program and $0.25M ($1M shared with other
University Centers) for a joint data collection initiative. In the next month or so,
announcements will be made for the EOP proposals and the capital funds proposals.
•The Provost (Alex Cartwright) also addressed the UFS. He mentioned that the PIP programs
of last fall would likely be continued next year, since most of the sources of funding would
likely be in the new budget. The metrics of SUNY Excels will continue to gather data on our
campuses’ effectiveness. He elaborated on the new PATH program (Predictive Analytics to
Transform Higher Ed). This initiative will analyze the data gathered by the four University
Centers with the recent $1M shared resource award for this purpose. The goal of 150,000
degrees and certificates is still being proposed, but with a new timeline of 2025/26. It is
impossible to do it by 2020, since those students in four year programs would already have
to be admitted to SUNY to finish in 2020.
•Participation of Faculty Governance in Searches and Presidential Reviews. We asked that
the chancellor require that the Campus Governance be allowed to choose the Faculty
representatives on search committees for Presidential, provost and dean searches, instead of
having administration select the faculty members. She said she would have the Provost look
into this. In addition, SUNY Central conducts 360o Reviews of campus presidents (about 6-7
per year) with inputs from all stakeholders. UFS would like Campus Governance and Student
Associations to be allowed to write up their independent assessments, rather than having
hand-picked faculty and students produce these documents.
• Coming Events. There will be two opportunities for Undergraduates to
present posters of their research this year. These occur at the Legislative
Office Building in downtown Albany on Feb 24th (for legislators), and on April
15 in Cobleskill at the Undergraduate Research Conference. There was some
talk of combining these two in the future.
• There were two resolution passed at the UFS Plenary on the topic of
Diversity and Gender Inclusiveness.
• The first asks that Campus Administrators ensure that at least one rest room
per building be gender neutral: that is-- not labeled Men’s Restroom or
Women’s Restroom, but just Restroom. Likewise for locker room facilities.
• The second asks that students be allowed to use a “preferred name”
separate from their legal name for non-legally binding purposes, such as
campus ID or class lists, and to be allowed to list a different “preferred”
gender.
Graduate Student Association Report --Katherine Slye, GSA President ( 1 of 6)
Article 2, Section 8 of the Faculty Bylaws indicate - that the Governance Council may
declare vacant a seat if a Senator misses 4 Senate meetings in one academic year.
Senate Charter sections VIII.6.1 and X.1.5.3 indicate that anyone missing more than 4
consecutive council or committee meetings for the University Senate shall be replaced by
a council or committee.
The Graduate Student Association does not have such specific parameters for
determining whether a Senator seat can be declared vacant. Former Senator Tiffany
Charles has brought this issue to light by missing, coming late to, and leaving exceedingly
early from most Senate meetings last semester. She did attend council meetings,
reported on some of them, but missed several of our team meetings (GSA equivalent of
an SEC with the reps from each council reporting to each other).
The GSA holds a high standard for its Senators because we take very seriously our
representation in the University Senate and other governance structures. We also
provide small stipends for these Senators through student fees. The degree of Ms.
Charles' absenteeism last semester led several members of the Senate team to
recommend that I as the new President request her resignation. She was not relieved
from her position, she was not fired. The last communication received by the GSA
President's email from Ms. Charles was on November 4, 2015 and the email I sent on
December 8th asking for her resignation was never responded to. Her last
communication with our Lead Senator was on October 26, 2015. After several weeks of
Graduate Student Association Report --Katherine Slye, GSA President (2 of 6)
no response we put out a call for a new Senator on our listserv, which Ms. Charles
should be receiving. I still heard nothing from her.
A new Senator was selected and put on our GSA Assembly agenda as a replacement
appointment for our Assembly to confirm. Two days before the Assembly meeting at
which the new Senator was to be confirmed we received notice from our Judicial Board
that Ms. Charles sent them a message saying she had not resigned. At the meeting two
days later I told the Assembly the exact timeline shared here. I indicated to them that
Ms. Charles told another branch of our student government that she had not resigned
but that the team of Senators had received no communications regarding this. The
Assembly made the decision that after nearly 8 weeks of no communications with the
rest of the Senate team and with only a message being sent to our Judicial Board that
they wished to appoint the replacement rather than take the chance of allowing Ms.
Charles to continue.
As some of your know, Ms. Charles came to the GAC meeting the following Monday
after the Assembly voted to fill her seat, which they determined to be vacant. Then she
came to the Senate meeting questioning her replacement, clearly not understanding
that the body that is in charge of her appointment is our GSA Assembly. This power of
appointing our own representatives is given to us by the Faculty Bylaws.
Graduate Student Association Report --Katherine Slye, GSA President (3 of 6)
Subsequent to Ms. Charles appearance at the Senate meeting the Judicial Board of our
organization issued a judicial review ruling indicating that missing Senate meetings is
not a clearly outlined as a responsibility of our Senators and has called into question
whether her absenteeism can be considered a vacancy by our Assembly. The Assembly
Speaker is currently preparing an appeal to this ruling on the grounds that the
Assembly needs to have the power to declare vacancy otherwise officers and
representatives can evade removal by simply refusing to respond to communications.
While this issue has brought to light unfortunate oversights in our governing
documents, we are proud to say that our internal processes are functioning very well
to resolve the issue and in very productive ways. This process has resulted in helpful
bylaw amendments to clarify and refine our governing documents. There is an
important dialogue going on about balance of powers and reasonable expectations of
our officers and representatives. Overall, we believe the handling of this conflict
exemplifies how far the GSA has come in being able to handle such conflicts
professionally and transparently.
We hope that our contributions in the Senate are received as professional and
productive. But we know that every democratic organization has its wild cards. So we
hope you evaluate our performance overall as graduate student Senators and while we
acknowledge unfortunate moments of unprofessionalism, we hope we have inspired
you to have confidence in our internal processes and organizational culture to deal
with those moments of aberration in fair and productive ways.
Graduate Student Association Report --Katherine Slye, GSA President (4 of 6)
Finally, since the Judicial Board ruling I have reached out to Ms. Charles once again and she
has not responded.
State Legislative Action Day
On March 5th, we are holding a training for all volunteers who will be meeting with
legislators on March 8th. We will hear tips of how to lobby from activists who have lobbied
in NYS as well as gain some peer knowledge from graduate students who have attended
lobby days in Washington DC with the National Association of Graduate Student
Professionals. We will also have topical trainings on our three issues: Stand with SUNY
(Angela Wright, the Director of State Relations), Ban the Box (Dionna King, Community
Organizer at the Education from the Inside out Coalition), and Divestment (Zach Dufresne,
MPA Student, Rockefeller College).
I will update you on how the Lobby Day goes on March 8th at the April Senate Meeting.
Programming Events
GSA is cosponsoring bringing in Sheri Fink for a conference on ethics and justice in the
context of natural disasters with Sheri Fink. Fink does work on ethical decisions that
emergency managers and health care providers face in the midst of disasters and other
health crises. She has written about the people who were working in the hospitals in the
wake of hurricane Katrina, as well as those dealing with the ebola crisis, and many other
important topics. She has a PhD in neuroscience, is an MD, and now writes for the New
York Times. She is perhaps best known for her book 5 Days at Memorial. More details on
this event to come.
Graduate Student Association Report --Katherine Slye, GSA President (5 of 6)
April 5 - Power Dialogue: The GSA will be helping put together the Power Dialogue event.
These discussions will be occurring all over the country in response to the Executive Order
that mandates each state to develop a Clean Power Plan to accomplish goals set at the
climate negotiations in Paris. Richard Kaufman, the Chairman of Energy and Finance for
NYS and a member of the Governor’s Executive Cabinet, will be coming to have an open
dialogue about his plans to implement the Clean Power Plan with students. Additionally,
Jared Snyder, Deputy Commissioner of the Office of Air Resources, Climate Change, and
Energy at the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation will also be there to speak
on his plans. This is a full day event.
2-4pm: Student Poster Session in the Campus Center Ballroom. The poster session
will be for students that have any sort of environmental research that they would like to
present. If you are interested in submitting a poster, please email GSAprog@albany.edu.
4-6pm: Student led workshops in the Assembly Hall, Fireside Lounge, and Campus
Center Ballroom. So far there is a workshop planned describing the Clean Power Plan and
what it means. We also have a collaboration between the Sustainability and Public Health
RGSOs who will be putting on a workshop addressing the implications of the CPP on
environmental justice. If you are interested in hosting a workshop, please email me at
GSAprog@albany.edu.
Graduate Student Association Report --Katherine Slye, GSA President (6 of 6)
Diversity conference
This year the GSA Equity and Inclusion committee will be holding a one-day conference on
April 23rd, 2016 at the SUNY Albany campus. The topic of the conference concerns bridging
the gap between activism and academia, a significant topic, particularly now, as students,
professors, as well as others face challenges on their campuses in regards to race, gender,
religion, socio-economic status, disabilities, and other issues. Currently, the Committee
looks to engage professors and other social activists in this event. They are still looking to
book individuals for the event, but have a list of people to invite and will be contacting
them soon. If you are interested in being involved or contributing, please contact our Equity
and Inclusion Chair, Amani Edwards, at gsainclusion@albany.edu.
Nagps LAD and Regional Conference
We will be sending between 2 and 4 people to each of these events. The LAD is similar to
the State LAD we are holding on March 8th, except it is a 2 day training in DC followed by
meetings with national legislators. The regional conference is an opportunity for graduate
students from the Northeast Region of the country to come together to share best
practices, learn from one another, and give feedback on ideas and ways of doing in student
government.
Election information
The GSA is holding elections for our Executive Board, Lead Senator, and University Council
Representative positions in March or April. Once the elections are concluded, I will report
the results.
Student Association Report – Jarius Jemmot I , Student Association President
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No response.
CAA – James Mower, Chair
The next CAA will occur on March 22. At that time, the Council will vote to approve the
reviews presented by the General Education Assessment Committee and the Academic
Program Review Committee.
CAFFECoR – Carol Jewell, Chair
Informational
CAFFECoR is continuing to discuss Academic Freedom policies, via email, rather than in
hard-to-schedule in-person meetings.
Reports of Actions
CAFFECoR continues to plan for the Academic Freedom Forum to be held on March 25,
2016; we are finalizing the panelists, creating a flyer, etc.
Recommendations for Actions
N/A
CERS – Michael Jerison, Chair
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Nothing to report.
COR – Daniele Fabris, Chair
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Nothing to report. Next meeting is on March 11.
CPCA – Lynn Warner, Chair
Feb 1 - Reviewed 2 tenure and promotion cases
Feb 8 - Reviewed 1 tenure and promotion case, 1 promotion case
Feb 22 - Reviewed 2 promotion cases
Meetings are scheduled for March 7 and March 21, cases TBD
GAC – Ronald Toseland, Chair
At its meeting of 2/8/16 the GAC approved program title changes for two graduate
programs (C.A.S. and Ph.D.) in Literacy and a curriculum change for the M.S. program
in Applied Chemistry.
GOV – James Collins, Chair (1 of 2)
Old business:
Since the last Senate meeting, the Governance Council has met twice. Its two primary
committees are working on several projects:
Committee on Assessment of Governance and Consultation: Has finished its biennial
survey of Shared Governance, will discuss at the next Council meeting on 02/29/16 and
report to the next Senate meeting.
Committee on Liaison & Election:
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Continues developing specialized listservs for particular Senate constituents
(i.e. part-time faculty and emeritus).
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The committee has finalized an introduction for the University Senate website.
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It has helped organize and schedule three Senate forums on Academic
Freedom (March 25), Contingent Concerns (April 5), and Sustainability in the
University Curriculum (April 18).
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It is also organizing nominations for the Senate’s annual elections.
The Council is recruiting members and preparing nomination lists for the following
Senate and University committees:
Committee on Resources and Planning (UPPC)
Facilities Committee (UPPC)
The President’s Advisory Committee on Campus Security.
GOV – James Collins, Chair (2 of 2)
New business:
The Council will consider and vote upon a resolution on Emeritus faculty at its
meeting on February 29, and will report the results to the next Senate
meeting.
LISC – David Mamorella, Chair ( 1 of 3)
Libraries Report – Rebecca L. Mugridge (Interim Dean of Libraries)
Facilities. Peter Recore-Migirditch, Mary Van Ullen and I met with Errol Millington, Riki
Brown, and Bill Dosch to continue our discussion of the use of Libraries’ space for the
permanent placement of other units on campus that support students. They’re going to
investigate our proposals including the installation of compact shelving in the basement
of the Science Library, and the potential use of the 2nd floor stacks area in the Science
Library for the other units.
Library hours. In response to a Student Advisory Board request, the Libraries are
forming a Library Hours Task Force that will be charged with reviewing the current
library usage and making a recommendation regarding the hours that the Libraries are
open. Of particular interest to graduate students are weekends during intersessions.
The Task Force’s report will be due June 30, 2016.
Faculty searches. The search committee for the Access Services & Information
Commons Evening Associate position has identified three candidates to bring in for
interviews; they are being scheduled for February 16-18. The Reference Librarian
position has been posted; applications will be accepted through March 9. The
Interactive Media Center paperwork was submitted last week (for Budget, HR, and ODI
approval). The search committee will be chaired by Elaine Lasda-Bergman, and includes
Kate Latal, Chris Loh, and Tom Bessette (from ITS).
LISC – David Mamorella, Chair ( 2 of 3)
Student Advisory Board (SAB). The third SAB meeting was held February 8, with 22
students and seven library staff in attendance. Lynn Mayer from ITS was also present.
The two new co-chairs of the Board were introduced: Kelsy O’Brien and Allison Hosier,
both from the Information Literacy Department. The discussion focused on two areas:
the splash page for the Information Commons (IC) computers, and the configuration of
the Libraries’ reference desk. Lynn Mayer and Deborah Bernnard led the discussion on
the splash page. The Libraries are proposing making the Libraries website be the splash
page for the IC computers. The feedback on this issue will be incorporated into another
mock up and we will present this again at a future meeting.
Conversations in Standish. The Libraries will be hosting a number of these
conversations with faculty this semester. These events are intended to spotlight faculty
research. Upcoming conversations include:
Rabi Musah, Chemistry Department
Smokes, Chews and Brews: The Dangers and Crackdown on Legal Plant Highs
February 24, 2016 12:35-1:30pm
James Stellar, Provost
Your Brain: Unconscious Decision-making and How it Affects Your Life and Learning
March 2, 2016 12:35-1:30pm
Rick Fogarty, History Department
What Can 1916 Tell Us About 2016? Europe, Islam, and the Middle East
April 6, 2016 12:35-1:30pm
LISC – David Mamorella, Chair ( 3 of 3)
ITS Report – Simeon Ananou (VP/CIO, ITS)
Simeon Ananou was hired as our new VP/CIO and started on 2/1/2016.
He feels the University has great untapped potential, one example being OneDrive.
He feels OneDrive is being underutilized, so expect promotional material via email and
other table set ups in the coming months.
He is conducting a report on how much DropBox is getting used by the University.
DropBox does NOT protect intellectual property when you put something on
there, whereas we have an agreement with OneDrive that the IP is ours. It helps
protect our research.
University network has been upgraded from 1GB to 10GB.
Plans to strengthen the information security are underway through awareness, not
punitive measures.
He’s hoping to use data analytics to understand student behavior on campus in an
effort to help boost student success.
Very interested in engaging the student community.
UAC – Karen Kiorpes and Christy Smith, Co-Chairs
The UAC met on February 18, 2016.
The Curriculum and Honors Committee Chair, Jason Cotugno, reported the committee
met on 2/9/16 to review the CEHC proposal for the major and will meet again today to
continue the review. He presented initial information on the CEHC proposal for a major
even though Curriculum and Honors has not finished its review.
UAC members were supportive of the core courses as appropriate and cohesive.
Concerns were raised about the logistics of offering the program where there may be
high demand for the Core courses and the major itself based on the positive response
to the CEHC minor approved last May. Focus should shift to adding sections of the core
to the schedule of classes. CEHC needs to maintain close coordination with the
Advisement Services Center regarding appropriate freshman maps and course
availability issues. Discussion will continue at future meetings and as C&H releases
their feedback on the proposal.
UAC reviewed the competency plan revisions submitted by INF in response to previous
recommendations by UAC and unanimously approved the plan.
ULC – Michael Jaromin, Chair
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Nothing to report.
UPPC – Joette Stefl-Mabry, Chair (1 of 2)
Informational
UPPC met on January 21st, 2016
Suggestions made by SEC members re: the Campus Impact form have been integrated
into the updated form The revised Campus Impact Form has been posted to the
Program Development sections of Faculty Resources on the Undergraduate Education
website:
http://www.albany.edu/undergraduateeducation/files/2016CampusImpactFormFINALE
ditable0208.pdf
The revised Campus Impact Form has now been posted to the Senate website.
The Chair of UPPC received an email from Celine Forsyth, Office of Undergraduate
Education on February 8, 2016 explaining that the proposal for a new program in
Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity had been submitted
to the Office of Undergraduate Education for review and submission to UAC. The
purpose of her email was to notify me that resource implications cited in the Campus
Impact Form submitted in September had not been changed. As there were no
changes the proposal does not need to be reviewed again by UPPC.
UPPC – Joette Stefl-Mabry, Chair
Reports of Actions
UPPC voted to conditionally approve a proposal to establish a new Master of Science
program in Data Science, from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. UPPC is
waiting for the revised proposal.
Recommended Actions
N/A
Approval of Changes in Council Memberships
New Business
Other New Business ?
Adjournment
