Transcript University Faculty Senate Fall Plenary Major Topics • • • • • • Seamless Transfer/ Transfer Paths SUNY Excel SUNY Budget Campus Assessments Long Island College Hospital (LICH) General Education.

University Faculty Senate
Fall Plenary
Major Topics
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Seamless Transfer/ Transfer Paths
SUNY Excel
SUNY Budget
Campus Assessments
Long Island College Hospital (LICH)
General Education
Seamless Transfer
From Seamless Transfer to Common Curriculum
• All comprehensives reported some problems
• Many problems at the Community Colleges
• Outrage or Apathy – nothing in between (Tina
Good)
Seamless Transfer
Poor communication from SUNY
• Faculty members were not aware that the
result of the Learning Commons conversations
would be a common curriculum among the 64
campuses for the 36 majors
Seamless Transfer
Waivers
• 207 Requests, 17 approved, 30 denied
• Others returned with requests for clarification
• Many in Limbo
• Denied w/o comment
Seamless Transfer
• Combined with pressures on our General
Education programs there was general
concern that faculty members were losing
control of the curriculum
Seamless Transfer
Our challenges
• Six majors in A&S
• All majors in the Crane School
SUNY Excel
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Chancellor, Provost, Assistant Provost
Performance based assessment
Attempt to secure funds above base
Goals from 116 metrics to 8
Worked with CAOs
Each campus would select their measures
SUNY Excel
• Chancellor stated that she wanted to see a
shift from enrollment to retention and
graduation rates for performance
• Analogy: For a M.D. - not office visits but
health of a patient
SUNY Excel
Assistant Provost
• SUNY enrollment ~460,000 students
• Serve 2.7 million through various programs
• Example: Cornell Cooperative Extension
SUNY Excel
Senate concerns
• No faculty input or discussion during
development
• Resolution to address
SUNY Budget
Presentation by Robert Haelen, Interim Chief
Financial Officer; Josh Sager, Associate Vice
Chancellor for Finance and Business
• SUNY System has not had an increase in state
support for many years
• Running a $5 million deficit
• Trimmed as much as possible
Campus Assessments
• SUNY System will collect the $5 million by
assessing each campus
• Did not share how the assessments would be
calculated
Long Island College Hospital (LICH)
• Two competing purchase
offers – both failed
• Sold for $240 million
• SUNY cost ~ $580 million
• Unclear how the deficit will
be paid – LICH tax?
Long Island College Hospital (LICH)
• Downstate faculty blame the
governor
• Claimed that the purchase
was forced on SUNY by his
office
• Call for clarifications – study
• Comptroller DiNapoli has
already made all details
public
Q&A with Chancellor Zimpher
• Sectors meet on Thursday evening and
Saturday to discuss campus issues to develop
questions for the Chancellor
• Unscripted
Q&A with Chancellor Zimpher
Enrollment decline
• Our sector has been squeezed
by the increase in enrollment of
first year students at the
University Centers (removal of
first year caps)
• Increase in four year programs
at (what were) two year
colleges – mission creep
Q&A with Chancellor Zimpher
Enrollment decline
• We asked about mission creep at
our meeting last spring
• Approved Master’s Degree at
SUNY Delhi
• She responded that program
approval is based upon when it is
appropriate – not mission
Q&A with Chancellor Zimpher
Enrollment decline
• Asked similar questions this time
• Chancellor hinted that if we had embraced
Open SUNY we would not be experiencing
enrollment declines
Q&A with Chancellor Zimpher
Timely Approval of Programs
• Related to attracting new students
• Claimed that we are also slow
• System was slow but have a lot on
their plate
• Dual approval process is in
development
Q&A with Chancellor Zimpher
Timely Approval of Programs
• It was pointed out, by faculty, that the
increased delay in approval was the result of
changes in GenEd and Transfer Paths
Q&A with Chancellor Zimpher
Elsivier Contract
• University Centers
• SUNY System decreased their contribution by
$1 million
Q&A with Chancellor Zimpher
Campus Assessments
• Necessary
General Education
Sector meetings
• Most were ~ 45 credits
• Many adopted the SUNY 7/10
as a temporary measure
• Many still working on
adjustments
• Many shifted to graduation
requirements
Other Guests
• Networks of Excellence – Timothy Killeen, Vice
Chancellor for Research & President of the
Research Foundation
• Provost Office Report – Alexander Cartwright,
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
• Faculty Council of Community Colleges Report
- Tina Good, President
Other Guests
• CUNY University Faculty Senate Report – Terry
Martell, Chair
• UUP – Fred Kowal, President
• SUNY Student Assembly Report – Lori Mould,
President
Resolutions
Sexual Assault Prevention
• Be It Resolved that the University Faculty
Senate endorses and supports the SUNY
initiative on sexual assault response and
prevention; and …..
Resolutions
Requesting All State University of New York Campuses
Offering Athletics Create Programs to Support LGBT
Athletes, Coaches, and Staff
• Be it resolved that the University Faculty Senate
requests that SUNY System Administration, through
individual campus Presidents and their designees, work
with Directors of Athletics and Student Government
organizations to develop systematic programs that
support LGBT athletes, coaches and staff and prevent
any anti-LGBT bias and discrimination in all sports on
each of its campuses, and
Resolutions
SUNY Excels Performance Measurement System
• Be it resolved that support of the SUNY Excels program
by the University Faculty Senate is contingent upon
satisfactorily addressing the following:
• Both individual campuses and the SUNY system engage
all participants in governance including faculty, staff
and students in the development and implementation
of campus specific performance measures that are
integrally linked to their unique institutional missions;
• and more….
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Resolutions
• Affordability of Textbooks and Other
Instructional Materials
• Be it further resolved that the UFS asks the
Chief Academic Officer on each campus to
work with the Campus Governance Leader to
consider faculty to adopt textbooks from all
phases of Open SUNY Textbooks and other
open textbook sources and be encouraged to
author such resources; and
Resolutions
Reduction on the Maximum Working Hours for Student
Assistants
• Therefore Be it resolved that the University Faculty
Senate requests that SUNY System Administration work
with the State of New York to remove the limitation on
student assistant working hours; and
• Be it further resolved that the University Faculty Senate
urges the Chancellor to support any and all other
efforts to provide students with insurance options so
that student working hours not be limited.
Resolutions
Support of expanding SUNY undergraduate
research and creative endeavors
• Be it resolved that the University Faculty
Senate encourages SUNY and campus
administration to provide greater resources
(funding, time, space, credit), to our
colleagues who regularly inspire, educate, and
mentor undergraduate researchers.
Resolutions
Resolution on Naloxone Availability
• BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that University
Faculty Senate requests that SUNY
Administration ensure that all SUNY campus
police units and campus First Responders have
access to and are stocked with naloxone and
are trained in its use for emergent
administration; and
Incidentals
• Some programs at some colleges will ignore
transfer paths
• Not all in our sector require 45 upper division
credits
Incidentals
• SUNY Potsdam has a nick name