Faculty Council
Minutes of the meeting of May 2, 1994
Meeting was called to order at 4:03p.m. by Chairperson Ted Steinberg.
1. Motion (M.Nelson/J.Romal): to amend the published agenda, deleting Item 3. Motion to amend passed. The amended agenda was adopted by consensus.
2. Motion, suggested by President's office, (M.Nelson/M.L.Lunde): to amend the minutes of the March 14, 1994 meeting, deleting the second sentence, second paragraph of item 3, the President's report. [The relevant section of the minutes is reproduced here with the deleted sentence shown as stricken out.] The President said the legislature was expected to pass the proposed SUNY budget item without major modification. He said he hopes to focus legislative attention on library needs and the incipient development campaign. Motion to amend the minutes passed.
2. Motion (M.Nelson/M.L.Lunde): to approve the minutes of the April 11, 1994 meeting, as published. Motion passed.
3. (President MacPhee's report was deleted from the agenda since he was called off campus on urgent college business.)
4. Chairperson Theodore Steinberg reported that Vice President for Academic Affairs David Hess had issued a document for consultation concerning procedures for chairperson searches. Steinberg invited faculty comments, which should be directed to him ASAP.
5. Vice Chairperson Jane Romal made no report.
6. Faculty Senator H. Joseph Straight reported on the April 15-16, 1994 FS meeting at the College of Technology at Canton. [Text of his report is included in the Archive minutes.) Items addressed included: FS resolution that SCAP funding be increased to at least double the current level, and extended to cover community colleges; FS resolution recommending that the Chancellor take action to insure that all campuses provide "reasonable and appropriate" levels of access to electronic resources, such as electronic mail; Interim Chancellor Burke reported that one of his 1994 priorities is to "implement a fully automated student application system that reduces substantially the time from application receipt to campus delivery."
7a. Governance Committee chair Daniel Jelski reported that the committee is in the process of conducting elections for various committee vacancies; report to follow the conclusion of the election process.
7b. Academic Affairs Committee, M.R.Amiran chair, submitted its Annual Report, AY 1993-94. The one-page document was distributed to FC. [Copy filed with Archive minutes.] K.Lucey inquired how many new course applications had been received by the committee this year. Amiran answered that there were two, from Theatre Arts; but the committee did not act on these, since they did not constitute program changes and were therefor outside the usual purview of the committee.
7c. Planning & Budget Committee chair Connie Willeford distributed a two-page Annual Report to Faculty Council [included in Archive minutes]. M.Nelson inquired what was meant by the "President's 1% Strategy" mentioned in the committee's report. Willeford replied that it was a plan earlier announced by the president to allocate 1% of the campus budget to the three priorities: educational technology, library, the major fund raising campaign.
7d. Professional Service Committee chair Gary Barber had given the committee's year-end report at the April FC meeting. He distributed copies of the Annual Report of the Professional Development Subcommittee, 1993-94 [included in Archive minutes].
7e. Student Affairs Committee, Lisa Naslund, chair, distributed a one-page Year-end Report [included in Archive minutes]. She also distributed a one-report on the plans to relocate the Counselling Center [included in Archive minutes]. K.Mantai asked whether decisions had been made to relocate the Counselling Center. Naslund deferred to VP Hess, who said progress had been made, but the administration was not yet ready to announce a final plan. Vice President Burdette added that construction had actually begun at Gregory Hall, and would be continuing for about a year.
8. Colin Plaister, Director of Creative Support Services reported on Media Services' progress toward developing multi-media classrooms. After thanking Charlotte Morse for preparing the series of visual aids for his presentation, he noted that media services are very labor intensive when it comes to moving equipment into classrooms and setting up systems for individual uses. Multi-media classrooms will alleviate that problem in that they will present user-friendly, ready-to-go presentation sys- tems. The first of these will be installed in McEwen 202, with others to follow in other buildings across the campus. Plaister said there is a committee in place to steer the establishment of the multi-media classrooms; co-chairs are Ken Lucey and Colin Plaister, and Jim Hurtgen is the administrative representative. The committee selected McEwen 202 as the first location because of seating capacity (200+), and ease of accomplishing the update. University at Buffalo has been pioneering in this direction, and Fredonia may be modeled after their approach. Equipment will include "visualizers" which can project images of 3D objects; these are simple to use, easy to maintain, and the most popular capability with faculty who have tried them. The teaching station will have a monitor to duplicate the display projected. Everything will be able to be done easily by teachers from the teaching station without relying on assistants to operate equipment from a projection booth. Media Services, Computing Services, Maintenance & Operations, Regis- trar, and the faculty will have to work together to establish these multi-media classrooms, and to optimize their use. He invited faculty input, and suggested that interested faculty visit Creative Support Services to see demonstrations of the various kinds of equipment that might be available. K.Mantai asked whether the new technology would mean less staff time available to care for older equipment. Plaister said that would not be the case, that multi-media classrooms should reduce the hours presently used transporting and setting up equipment. He said his department hopes to continue updating equipment and repairing equipment in priority order. K.Mills-Courts inquired as to the cost of multi-media classrooms. Plaister said $25,000 as a minimum, but Fredonia may spend up to $40,000 for some classrooms. Dean Zablotney said that the chairs had expressed concern about how to use the new technology with smaller classes of 25-35 students. Plaister said that increasingly there will be use of "smart" classrooms that would not have all the built-in capabili- ties of the multi-media classrooms, but would have updated plug-and-play possibilities. He said it is also possible, cur- rently, to convert any classroom into a multi-media room on a temporary basis using portable modules; this requires several people for a few hours to do the set-up. K.Mantai asked whether someone was evaluating which equipment to use. Plaister answered that Fredonia is largely following UB's lead. He said the systems should be continuously reviewed for effectiveness, ease of use, etc., and that they can be modified by replacing modules of equipment. He said Binghamtom is also a leader in this area, and that several other leading institutions are also being studied. He said he has available a nine-minute video demonstration of the capabilities in place at the University of Colorado, and something similar from UB.
9. There was no new business.
10. Motion (M.Nelson/T.Pencek): to adjourn. Motion passed at 4:45 p.m.
Attendance:
Professional Staff, Management:
[x] K. Bonds (95)
[x] S. Clarke (96)
[x] V. Conover (96)
[E] D. Danielson (95)[1]
[x] K. Harrington(94)[1]
[E] R. Hart (96)
[1] A. Jackson (96)
[1] T. Malinoski (96)
[x] G. McNeil (95)
[1] T. Murphy (96)
[x] C. Niles (94)
[x] M. Pabst (94)
[ ] vacant
Arts, Education, Humanities:
[x] M.R. Amiran (96)
[x] C. Brown (95)
[x] J. Burke (94)
[1] J. Gillette (96)
[1] D. Kerzner (95)
[1] R. Klassen (95)
[x] K. Lucey (94)
[x] R. Ma
[x] L. Maheady (94)
[x] J. McVicker (95)
[x] K. Mills-Courts (96)
[x] M. Nelson (96)
[1] J. Parla (95)
Natural and Social Sciences:
[x] S. El-Mofty (96)[1]
[2] J. Hansen (94)
[x] D. Jelski (94)
[1] J. Kraus (95)
[x] G. Lash (96)
[x] K. Mantai (96)
[3] P. Mattocks (96)
[2] A. Parai (95)
[x] T. Pencek (96)
[4] T. Rywick (94)
[x] A. Sarker (95)
[1] B.J.Stephens (95)
[1] M. Vassallo (95)
Student Representatives:
[1] N. Crino
[4] S. Downey
[3] M. Eglin
[4] R. Kerr
[3] N. Merkel
[1] G. Schneider[2]
Ex Officio:
[x] D. Burdette[1]
[1] J. Crowley
[1] M. Dimitri
[x] D. Hess
[x] M. L. Lunde
[E] D. MacPhee
[x] T. McNeil
[x] J. Romal
[x] T. Steinberg
[x] J. Straight
[1] A. Wheeler
[x] S. Zablotney
Guests:
Nancy Bowser
James Hurtgen
Lisa Naslund
Colin Plaister
Constance Willeford
Thomas McNeil, College Senate Secretary