College-wide Governance Meeting - PowerPoint Presentation

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College-wide Governance Meeting

January 22, 2014, 12:45 PM, Gateway A&B

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Agenda

Minutes (Donaghy)Opening Remarks/Announcements (

Donaghy

)

Presidential Address (

Wheeler

)

CoC

Actions (

Daley

)

Promotion and Tenure Report (

Malmsheimer

)

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DRAFT Proposal on behalf of ESF was submitted before the 12/30 deadline

Due to constraints, minimal to no faculty input was solicited

Executive Committee is meeting with VP

Rufo

tomorrow to review Draft proposal

Our role? To make sure that whatever company takes advantage contributes to the academic mission of the College

Eventually a 30-day review by campus

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Mentoring Colloquium

Scott BlairKelley Donaghy

Theodore

Endreny

Melissa

Fierke

Douglas JohnstonNeil Ringler

Scott Turner

Stephen

WeiterTheresa Kaier-May

January 8, 2014

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Mentoring Colloquium Results

Satisfied with program: 67% S and 28% VSLength: 70% just right, 25% too short

Content: 60% agree, 34% strongly agree

Organized: 50% agree, 47% strongly agree

Achieved its goals: 57% A, 38% SA

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Elections

Nominations are being accepted by Sergeant-at-Arms Bob Meyer for:Executive Chair (2 year term)

SUNY Senator (3-year term)

SU Senator (3 year term)

If you are interested in serving on a committee – please let your department chair and department know. They should have an election process to fill this positions.

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Quentin Wheeler

Envisioning our Sustainable Future

ESF

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Quentin Wheeler

First steps:

Listen

Review strategic plan

Understand

curriculum/student experience

Identify

“right” questions that brand

ESF

Strategic PR Plan

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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Justice and social inquiry

African-American studies

Asian-Pacific/American studies

Women & gender studies

SCHOOL OF HISTORY, PHILOSOPY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES

History

Philosophy

Religious studies/Jewish studies

Asia studies

SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES & URBAN PLANNING

Geography

Urban planning

GIS

SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL & STATISTICAL SCIENCES

Mathematics and statistics

Mathematical biology

Mathematics education

SCHOOL OF POLITICS & GLOBAL STUDIES

American politics

International relations

Cultural perspectives and place

Violence, conflict and human rights

HOW DO WE BUILD SUSTAINABLE CITIES?

HOW DO WE PREDICT NATURAL PROCESSES?

HOW DO WE GIVE AND USE POWER?

HOW DOES SOCIETY SHAPE ITS VALUES?

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“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going because you might not get there”

—Yogi Berra

, American Baseball Legend

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clarity of vision

courage of purpose

bold leadership

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We will educate and inspire environmental leaders, explore the natural world, and blaze the trail to a sustainable future

Big. Audacious. Inspiring.

Vision

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984%

2008 = 13

2012 = 141

Differentiate

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Quentin Wheeler

ESF Design Imperatives:

1. Ask the “right” questions

2. Transformative education

3. Conceptual consilience

4. Measure success inside out

5. Evolutionary entrepreneurism

6. Leverage with partnerships

7. Power of place

8. Balance fundamental discovery and problem-solving

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Quentin Wheeler

1. Ask the “right” questions

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“Historians of science often observe that asking the right question is more important than producing the right answer. The right answer to a trivial question is also trivial, but the right question, even when insoluble in exact form, is a guide to major discovery.”

— E. O.

Wilson, 1998,

Consilience

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Quentin Wheeler

W

hat are earth’s species?

How can we detect and adapt to climate change?

What are options for renewable energy?

How can we make cities sustainable?

and on and on and on

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Quentin Wheeler

2. Transformative education

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Educated

Passionate

Courageous

Liberal Arts PLUS

Science, Sustainability, Cultural, Global “Literacies”

PLUS Awareness: e.g., Team-work Tolerance

Transformative Impact on Student Lives

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Transformative Impact on Society:

public science education

on-ground impact

reliable, objective knowledge

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Campus without borders

Develop pipeline for diverse STEM students

Cultivate an informed, inspired public

Open access to information/knowledge for general welfare

Diversify sustainability workforce through citizen science

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SECS in the City

Sustainability Education and Citizen Science in New York City

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Quentin Wheeler

3. Conceptual Consilience

Transdisciplinarity

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Quentin Wheeler

4. Success Inside Out

ESF will measure success in the

quality

of students, knowledge, and impact it produces

— not the quantity of dollars it brings in

i.e., revenue streams are a means, not an end

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Quentin Wheeler

5

. Evolutionary Entrepreneurism

ESF will be an engine for an adaptation economy

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Quentin Wheeler

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Quentin Wheeler

6. Leverage Partnerships

SUNY

NYS

NYC

national

international

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Collaborative competition

Sustainability Innovation and Vision (“I.V.”) League

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Quentin Wheeler

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. Power of Place

Syracuse University

Syracuse

Adirondacks

NYC

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Quentin Wheeler

8. Balance Curiosity-Driven Discovery and Problem-Solving Solutions

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“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge”

—

Daniel J.

Boorstin

, Librarian of U. S. Congress

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1. Biosphere Baseline

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2. Adaptation Economics

Evolutionary Entrepreneurism

Natural history, informatics,

biomimicry

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3

. Origins

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S

ource

: Pink Floyd

“

Tree of Half Life

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album cover

by Storm

Thorgerson

.

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Think ecologically,

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ct evolutionarily

Recognize open niches

Develop interconnected networks

Maximize options and adapt

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“Department” of shameless self-promotion

Popularize vision, discoveries, and achievements,

p

ackaged in ways to capture public imagination

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Top 10 New Species 2013

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Curriculum Committee

Report to Faculty Governance1/22/2014

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Report Items

CommunicationsWebsite http://www.esf.edu/coc/

Email:

curriculum@esf.edu

Committee reports the following courses are approved

FCH

232 Career Skills for Chemists (new)

FCH

511 Atmospheric Chemistry (revised)

FOR 340 Watershed Hydrology (revised)Committee moves to accept revisions of FNRM curricula to bring them in line with

SUNY General Education policy Forest Ecosystem ScienceForest Resources ManagementNatural Resources ManagementSustainable Energy Management

Committee announces proposal reviews:

FCH

110 (new General Education)

FOR 232 Natural Resources Ecology (new General Education)

B.S. Environmental Science (revision, reduce credit hours by reducing senior synthesis project)

B.S.

Environmental Chemistry (new)

Next

CoC

Meeting:

1/29/2014

Availability of Special Topics course proposals in all program areas

Program reviews: 30 credit hour requirements of General Education

Use of Foreign Language to meet GER

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P&T Committee Report

Bob Malmsheimer

Chair

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Members of the ESF P&T Committee

Bob Malmsheimer, Chair (

FNRM

)

Robin

Kimmerer

(

EFB)

Chuck

Kroll (ERE

)Matthew Potteiger (LA)

Bandaru

Ramarao

(PBE

)

David

Sonnenfeld

(ES

)

William

Smith (SCME

)

Arthur

Stipanovic

(CHEM).

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Review of ESF P&T Standards

P&T Standards require the CRC (a.k.a. the P&T Committee) to review the standards every three years.

Review Process:

6 two hour meetings of P&T Committee.

6 two hour meetings of P&T Committee with Provost.

Reached consensus on how to improve the Standards.

Memo summarizing changes and revised Standards will be sent out to faculty members after this meeting.

Three meetings for faculty member’s comments.

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Overarching Guidelines for Review

Use lessons

learned from the CRC’s experience with the

standards and process

during the past 2 years

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Goals:

Make standards clearer for candidates.

Make standards clearer for reviewers.

Make process clearer for candidates and reviewers.

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Results of Review: Issues

Readability, consistency, and concision issues.

L

ogical flow and placement of ideas issues.

I

nconsistencies and conflicts

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Need for updating.

Major changes, minor changes, and additions.

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Results of Review: Major Changes

Specifies productivity

, impact/effectiveness, and/or continuous growth

standards.

Specifies a

CRC member from the candidate’s department

can participate

in the discussion of the candidate’s application, but may

not

vote.Requires reviews of Associate Professors every 3 years.

Removes

peer-evaluation of teaching

requirement.

D

epartments

can

still require

these.

Specifies materials included in Dossier and Evaluative File and their organization.

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Results of Review: Minor Changes

18 minor changes.

Examples:

Clarifies that professional collegiality is a criteria for Continuing Appointment

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Coordinates the dates for Associate Professors’ 3rd Year Review with Promotion and Continuing Appointment review process.

Changes

the minimum number of external reviews required for professorial ranks to 4 (previously was 5)

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Clarifies appeals process.

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Results of Review: Additions

11 additions

Examples:

Table of Contents

Definition section (e.g. conflict of interest)

Flowcharts

Clarifies that SUNY and ESF non-discrimination principles apply to the P&T process.

Sets

out a procedure for solicitation and inclusion of evaluations from the

director

of non-departmental units (e.g., GPES, Research Centers) that a candidate participates in.

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Next Steps

Three

meetings

for

comments.

Wednesday, February 5: College Hour

Wednesday, February 19: 10:00 to 11:30

Wednesday, March 5: College Hour

Provost and P&T Committee will review input.

Provost’s and President’s approval.

Bottom Line: P&T Committee and Provost believe revised standards will significantly improve the ESF P&T process.

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