Faculty Council
Minutes of the meeting of October 7, 1991
AGENDA
1. Approval of the agenda
2. Approval of the minutes of the September 9, 1991 meeting
3. Report of the President: D. MacPhee
4. Report of the Chairperson: M. L. Lunde
* Report of the Search Committee for the Vice President for Development and College Relations (P. Sinden)
* Report of the Search Committee for Dean of Natural and Social Sciences (N. Boynton)
5. Report of the Vice Chair: S. Warner
6. Report of the Faculty Senator: H. J. Straight
7. Report of the chair of the Governance Committee (F. Krohn)
8. Report of the College Scholarship Committee (M. Dimitri)
9. Report of the Internship Office (W. Muller)
10. Report of the Enrollment Management Committee
11. New Business
1. Resolution from Executive Committee:
In the light of published reports that the SUNY Board of Trustees is about to take action to formally remove a number of degree programs from member campuses of the SUNY system; and because existing academic programs of the College at Fredonia were established after full consultation with, and an affirmative vote by Faculty Council; it is hereby RESOLVED that any decision to reduce or eliminate any undergraduate academic program come before Faculty Council through the Academic Affairs Committee.
b. Resolution from Executive Committee in appreciation of the services of Faculty Council Secretary R. Dipert (H. J. Straight).
0. Chairperson M. L. Lunde called the meeting to order at 4:04 p.m.
1. R. Belliotti moved that the published agenda be adopted, seconded by T. Schwalbe. Motion passed. 2. Chairperson M. L. Lunde noted that the printed minutes for the September 9, 1991 meeting had not been received by several members. Approval of the minutes was therefore deferred to the November meeting.
3. Report of the President, D. MacPhee: On budget concerns - Additional funds will be needed to accommodate recent TIAA/CREF retirements ($212K). Further spending ceilings and reductions in the present year's budget will probably be mandated by SUNY in mid-November, perhaps amounting to 0.5% which would be $125K for Fredonia. There has been a settlement on the UUP-negotiated 'disparity money' that has been held up for several years; the campus will have to absorb somewhere between $40K and $80K to accommodate the salary increases provided under this plan. Altogether, Fredonia will probably have to absorb something like $400K in the present budget to accommodate these items. We are hoping not to have to reduce any allocations already made to departments. The quest for a multi-cultural campus continues, not without complications. We have had both substantial successes and significant setbacks. We are constantly attempting to deal sensitively and correctly with bias-related incidents, ethnic and otherwise, while being attentive to the First Amendment implications. We want to involve the campus in much more substantial discussions of many issues, many of them emerging from Dr. Berry's recent appearance on campus, including curriculum, recruitment and retention and others.
4. Chairperson M. L. Lunde introduced new FC members: Tom Loughlin (Theater Arts), Greg Prechtl (Physical Education), Harry Jacobson (School of Music), and Kathleen Bonds (Educational Development Program). Chairperson Lunde distributed copies of the lists of those appointed to the five Chancellor's Award committees as approved by the Executive Committee. Report of the Search Committee for the Vice President for Development and College Relations was given by P. Sinden: Committee has examined 55-60 applications, narrowing the field to 11 active candidates. Now scheduling campus visitations to begin in 2 to 3 weeks. M. R. Amiran: Are any women among the active candidates? Sinden: Yes. T. Schwalbe: How many will be invited to campus? Sinden: At most, 5. We don't know the ethnicity of applicants since that information does not appear in the applications, though we believe 1 might be hispanic, 1 black. Report of the Search Committee for Dean of Natural and Social Sciences was given by N. Boynton: 83 applications received to date. 36 of these are in the 'top tier', including about 5 women. Some of the applications appear to be from minorities. D. MacPhee: We will probably be less vague regarding ethnicity of the applicants by the time invitations are extended. K. Mantai: Any applications received from on campus? Boynton: Yes.
5. Vice Chair, S. Warner had no report.
6. Report of Faculty Senator J. Straight:: Faculty Senate will meet at Alfred University October 19-20. Your input is sought.
7. Report of the chair of the Governance Committee, F. Krohn: Faculty Preference Poll will be circulated in about two weeks. The committee is presently awaiting computer data from Personnel Department to conduct the annual representation census.
8. A three-page report of College Scholarship Committee, with attachments was received from committee chair M. Dimitri. P. Sinden: How much of the $120K total scholarship money comes from the Faculty/Staff Scholarship Fund? M. Dimitri: $5,500; endowed value is over $100K. 3 juniors, 3 sophomores, 2 freshmen are receiving these scholarships. D. MacPhee: The College Foundation Board is responsible for distribution of these allocations. S. Warner: Is the limited amount of our scholarship funds affecting our recruiting efforts? M. Dimitri: As college costs escalate, our scholarships are less significant in recruiting students. T. Loughlin: Why were School of Music String Scholarships discontinued? M. Dimitri: The recruiting goals were not being met by the scholarships; also, School of Music is better endowed than other departments and might use internal funding sources to replace these scholarships. H. Jacobson: Any chance of getting these scholarships back in the future? M. Dimitri: It's always possible. J. Gillette: Why have only 3 of the 30 minority students accepted the scholarships we've offered? M.Dimitri: Our offers are not terribly competitive with other institutions.
9. An eight-page 1990-91 report was received from the Internship Office, W. Muller. Borodin Internships in York, England has attracted two students each of past two summers, and two more will go during the present academic year. J. Croxton: What are the credits offered, and the cost? W. Muller: 12 hours credit. Cost is tuition plus a very modest charge for the travel package - probably cheaper to go to York than to stay in Fredonia. P. Sinden: Do you asses the academic quality of the internships? Are they valuable? Muller: Yes, the Learning Contracts are very important for this. Sinden: Does the oversight include liability issues? Muller: Yes, we are developing an insurance coverage model to deal with these issues. We are also concerned about oversight for sexual harassment, no problems so far. Our office has no contact with some "internship" programs handled directly by departments. Sinden: This ought to be corrected. Muller: Probably so. M. R. Amiran: The Learning Contract protects students from non- productive assignments from the employer. Muller: We have had some abuses of internships by employers working students excessively in anticipation of a job which never materialized. We encourage use of journals by students to reduce this abuse.
10. A three-page 1990-91 Annual Report was received from the Enrollment Management Committee, D. Hess, chair. Our target enrollment is 4,531 FTE students. We will be at about +44 for this year. J. Straight: What is next year's target? Hess: We will be working on that at tomorrow's meeting.
11. New Business: (1) Chairperson M. L. Lunde moved the resolution from Executive Committee concerning reduction of academic programs. (Text in Agenda above.) K. Mantai: Do we have influence over Board of Trustees? D. MacPhee: Don't read into this resolution that the Trustees initiate such actions; they act on the recommendations of the campuses. Yes, we do have influence over such decisions. MacPhee: Faculty Council certainly should be consulted on major decisions, but not necessarily day-to-day decisions on resource allocation. Remember that the State Department of Education is also an influential player in these matters. D. Hess: We have no problem with consultation, but micro-management by Faculty Council is not really practical. W. Rockett: We had such an instance with State Department of Education three years ago, which did threaten the discontinuance of a program. I took that to Academic Affairs Committee for consultation. And resource allocations are always discussed with departments. Motion CARRIED.
(2) J. Straight moved the following resolution on behalf of the Executive Committee: WHEREAS Randall Dipert has served the Faculty of the State University of New York College at Fredonia as College Senate Secretary for half a decade, and WHEREAS, in this capacity and as a valued member of the Executive Committee he has contributed greatly to effective faculty governance at the College, and WHEREAS his work as College Senate Secretary has been distinguished by a high degree of accuracy, clarity, erudition, and technical (and TeXnical) expertise, therefore be it RESOLVED that the Faculty Council hereby expresses its sincere appreciation to Randall Dipert for his dedicated service as College Senate Secretary. The motion CARRIED unanimously. Applause followed.
(3) P. Sinden moved that: The Academic Affairs Committee be charged with examining the anomaly of internship supervision viz a viz the Internship Office and report to Faculty Council by the December 1991 meeting. Second by R. Belliotti. Motion CARRIED.
12. F. Krohn moved to adjourn, seconded by T. Malinoski. Motion passed.
Attendance:
Professional Staff/Management:
P. Andrews (1992)
K. Bonds (1992)
S. Clarke (1993)
V. Conover (1993)
P. Deakin (1993)
T. Kflu (1993)
T. Malinosky (1993)
S. Maloney (1992)
T. McNeil (1991)
K. Porpiglia (1992)
B. Servatius (1993)
Arts, Education and Humanities:
R. Belliotti (1993)
M. Charbonnet (1993)
R. Dipert (1991)
J. Gillette (1991)
H. Jacobson (1993)
R. Klassen (1992)
T. Loughlin (1993)
M.L. Lunde (1992)
T. Schwalbe (1992)
G. Sebouhian (1992)
Natural and Social Sciences:
J. Berkley (1991)
J. Croxton (1991)
M. Grady (1992)
J. Hansen (1991)
T. Janik (1993)
K. Mantai (1993)
P. Sinden (1993)
R. Weist (1992)
Students:
J. Baez
K. Donovan
J. Black
Ex Officio:
D. Burdette
M. Dimitri
D. Hess
J. Hurtgen
D. MacPhee
W. Rockett
H. J. Straight
S. Warner
Guests:
M. R. Amiran
W. D. Muller
C. Willeford
N. Boynton
H. Lawson
Excused Absences:
D. Johnson (1992)
M. Nelson (1993)
A. Raspini [sabbatical] (1993)
J. Romal (1993)
Unexcused Absences:
J. Chilberg (1991) [1]
S. Royal (1991) [2]
J. Berkley (1991) [1]
J. Hansen (1991) [1]
F. Krohn (1993) [1]
G. Prechtl (1992) [1]
P. Sinden (1993) [1]
R. Weist (1992) [1]
W. Foeller [1]
A. Wheeler [1]
Thomas McNeil, College Senate Secretary pro tempore