SUNY FACULTY SENATE FALL PLENARY ‘- SUNY Delhi October 19-21, 2017 1
CHANCELLOR KRISTINA M. JOHNSON ‘- Professor of Electrical Engineering at University at Buffalo 2
Philanthropy - • Primary Goal: Establishing a SUNY Endowment UC Endowment $150,000 per student SUNY Endowment $0 per student ‘- Campuses’ Total Endowment $1,500 per student • Does not believe in micro management • Strong support for Shared Governance Based on her UC Boulder and Duke Univ. Experience , “Did you consult the faculty “ Sign on the desk of the President of Duke University. • Grow research expenditures • Increase full-time faculty 3
Percent of Full-time Instructional Staff at Public Institutions by Carnegie Classification 1 , Fall 2015 100% 80% 73.6% 66.6% 56.2% 60% 50.9% 49.5% 47.8% ‘- 40% 31.7% 29.3% 20% 0% Doctoral 2 Masters Baccalaureate Associate SUNY National Publics Footnotes: 1 Carnegie Basic 2015 2 Does not include Cornell, Alfred Ceramics, Downstate, Upstate and Optometry. SUNY System Administration Office of Institutional Research and Data Analytics:: August 17, 2017 Source: IPEDS 2015 Human Resources Survey 4 4
GRACE WANG INTERIM PROVOST AND VICE CHANCELLOR FOR RESEARCH AND ‘- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 5
Excelsior Scholarship Program: Potential Multi-Year Impact on Campus Revenue Potential Multi-Year Impact of Excelsior Scholarship: Lost Tuition Revenue ($M) $20.0 $17.4 $18.0 State-operated Campuses Community Colleges Statutory Campuses $1.6 $16.0 $14.0 $4.3 $12.0 $10.0 $6.8 $8.0 $5.7 $0.6 $4.8 $6.0 $11.5 $0.5 $1.6 $0.4 $1.4 $4.0 $1.2 $4.6 $2.0 $3.8 $3.2 $- Year One Year Two Year Three Total Revenue Loss Potential Students Impacted State-operated 15,861 18,856 22,874 Statutory 316 378 466 Community Colleges 6,827 7,784 8,954 6 Total 23,004 27,017 32,294
Composition of U.S. High-school Graduates, by Race/Ethnicity 7
PASSED RESOLUTIONS
PASSED Resolutions 1. To Recognize the Second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Columbus Day) 2. To Provide Free Access to Menstrual Products at All SUNY Campuses in All Restrooms ‘- 3. Recommendations for Academic Advisers Related to Financial Aid , academic advisers should refer students to the financial aid office on their campus for information on how registration and registration changes may impact aid eligibility. 9
PASSED Resolutions 4- Recommendation on Broad-Based Fees • THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the University Faculty Senate recommend to campuses and campus leadership that broad-based fees be closely scrutinized to ensure the appropriate balance of addressing student ‘- services, fiscal need, and long-term institutional financial viability, student access, success, and completion; and • BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that campuses work closely with SUNY System Administration to ensure that all broad-based fees are implemented and administered in line with appropriate policy and guidelines (See SUNY policy document 7804: Fees, Rentals, and Other Charges , effective • 9/20/11). 10
PASSED Resolutions 5- Attendance Policy Accommodation for United States Military Drills and Training THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the University Faculty Senate requests ‘- that SUNY Chancellor and Board of Trustees adopt a policy that calls for United States Military obligations, including drills and trainings, to be treated as excused absences according to campus policies; and BE IT RESOLVED that the UFS encourages SUNY to adopt a policy that any United States Military obligation that cannot be fully accommodated due to the nature of a course or the length of obligation be eligible for a non- penalizing United States Military withdrawal from at least that course, preserving their educational status and financial resources; and 11
PASSED Resolutions 6- Resolution in Response to the Regulatory Action Taken by the Charter School Committee of the SUNY Board of Trustees ‘- RATIONALE WHEREAS, on October 11, 2017, the State University of New York Board of Trustees Charter Schools Committee approved regulations that establish a process by which certain charter schools may establish their own criteria for certification of their own teachers; 12
PASSED Resolutions 6- RESOLUTION THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the University Faculty Senate condemns in the strongest possible terms both the process that created and the regulations that have been passed by the SUNY ‘- Board of Trustees Charter Schools Committee; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the University Faculty Senate urges in the strongest terms that the Board of Trustees exercise its authority in Section 700.1 to “alter, amend, revise or repeal the provisions” of actions of its Charter Schools Committee to repeal the new regulations at its November Board of Trustees meeting. 13
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