Tentative Agenda
A&S Senate Meeting
September 19, 2016

 

3:30-3:25         Welcome, approve minutes, call for people to run for VP, Floating member on Executive Committee must be free at 3:30 on Mondays

3:35-4:00         Dean Kopp presents on Senior Lecturer, Budget, New Hires

4:00-4:30         Robert Megna, Senior VP for Finance and Administration – New Purchasing and Budget questions

4:30                 Discussion on proposed Department of Film and Creative Writing

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A&S Senate Meeting
Minutes
April 18, 2016

I.  Approval of agenda:  There is a change in the agenda.  We are not going to be discussing the new department of creative writing and film because the slides were not ready.  Dean Sotiropoulos will not be presenting as he is stuck in traffic:  approved. 

II.  Approval of minutes from March 21st:  approved.

III.  President’s Report (M. Schedel)

• Trevor talked about changing the President’s term.  Do we want any more discussion about that?  T. Sears:  Norm Goodman brought up a potential modification such that we don’t require the past president to serve for yet another two years.   M. Schedel:  Currently we have a Past President and a Vice President.  The idea is that the Vice President will learn the ropes so that when they become the President it will (unintelligible) .  So I’m thinking a two year term you can have a Past President on board for a year and then the incoming person would be getting trained for the other year.  That position on the executive committee would be held by a Past President and then the next President.
• There are still open positions for committees.  Please encourage colleagues to write-in on the ballots.

IV.  Discussion of CAS Strategic Plan (E. Broselow)

• I began on September 1st as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in Arts & Sciences.
• The awards recognition banquet was held last week for retiring faculty and staff and various awards were given out to students.
• CAT:  now have two separate departments, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature.    Related to that will be some actual physical movement of faculty.
• There were initial focus groups in 2014 when Dean Kopp arrived.  There was a writing team of faculty in spring 2015 which focused on level values.  The next level is to come up with some more specific actions based on those values so there will ultimately be a new writing team.  The phase we are in now is gathering input from all constituents.
• Goal 1 is to increase global prestige and prominence of our creative work, research and scholarship in areas that have exceptional impact on the human condition and that leverages our proximity to NYC and nearby.  S. Lee:  When is the survey deadline?    M. Schedel:  It was really long.  S. Lee:  Questions the same for each goal.   Someone spoke at length about visibility and goals 1 and 3.  M. Schedel:  Are we done at this point?  E. Broselow:  Before we move on can I just ask if anyone can suggest wording?  M. Schedel:  I was just going to ask you to summarize the discussion because it’s hard to get all of that in the tape recorder but for the minutes it would be lovely if you could mirror what you heard then we can attempt to have decent minutes and then we can work on language later.   T. Sears:  What about the national prominence?  Stony Brook isn’t that well known nationally.  M. Schedel:  Or at least increase the prestige.  M. Schedel:  My comment is about nearby partners.  I have partners in Singapore and in London.  I know that it flows from this leverages our proximity to NYC but I think I think we are partners that are global.  I would either strike that or (unintelligible).  .  E. Broselow:  This talks about a process of going out and it doesn’t talk about the other direction, that we want to interconnect with the rest of the world.   The goal is connections around the world.  We want the visibility at the national level. 
• Goal 2 is to provide outstanding conditions on campus for a supportive, diverse learning community of scholars and students across the college.  M. Schedel:  In Goal 1 you wanted it to be specific to Stony Brook just a little bit so how can we add that to Goal 2.  E. Broselow:  And more generic.
• Goal 3 is to foster experiential learning with strong interdisciplinary collaborations and cross disciplinary perspectives.  T. Sears:  Goal 2 encompasses that, doesn’t it?  M. Schedel:  I think 3 and 4 go together.  T. Sears:  Goal 2, 3 and 4 are all interconnected.   
• N. Goodman:  Nobody would disagree with goals.  The issue is the action plans.  Not only the action plans, but how we schedule the priorities.  E. Broselow:  I think the idea is the objectives come out of the goals and the action plan come out of the objectives.  We just have to make sure everyone agrees that the goals include everything that we want as a basis of action.  T. Sears:  Got the goals.  Most agree on.  M. Schedel:  I might question the order because putting the final disciplinary (unintelligible) as the last one and maybe put diversity and cross-disciplinary together.
• Goal 4 is to inspire students to gain disciplinary depth along with breadth of experience in ethics, culture, science, literature, and civic engagement.
• Goal 5 is to provide quality education committed to success for students of all ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and gender.
• Goal 6 is to engage and enrich our communities by sharing our work and contributing to a meaningful public discourse. 
• M. Schedel:  When you are doing action items there should be a way to say that this is goals 1 and 6.  It shouldn’t be actions items that are only for a specific goal.
• Someone had a question about Communities in Goal 6.  Does it mean each disciplines group or the community that surrounds the University?  E. Broselow:  So is it the discipline of physics or music and the Stony Brook community.  Not having been involved in writing these, I can’t answer that.  I would imagine it was purposely broad enough to include anyone relevant.
• S. Lee:  Questions on the survey seemed abstract and repetitive.  It was frustrating particularly because I think we need to define these terms first like global, community, upper education and diversity.  The questions are not clear. E. Broselow:  Am I hearing that the survey  should be re-done?  M. Schedel:  It depends on how many people filled them out.

V.  Old Business:  no old business.

VI.  New Business:   no new business.

Meeting adjourned.

Submitted by:

Laurie Cullen
Secretary