March 18th, 2021 Meetings of the Faculty Senate and College Council

March 18, 2021

2:30PM - 4:30PM

Faculty Senate

• Faculty Seante agenda for 3/18/2021

• Minutes of 146th Faculty Senate meeting

• Revised minutes of 145th Faculty Senate meeting

• FS Curriculum

• FFPC Mode of instruction

• Draft forgiveness policy

• Draft P-F grading scale policy

College Council

• Agenda for 3/18/2021 CC Meeting

• Minutes of 2/18/2021 CC Meeting

• Draft minutes of 3/11/2021 CC Meeting

• Chairperson's report

• Proposal by the Bylaws Committee (11/26/2019)

• Budget Committee Report

• Powerpoint slides on goverance plans, from special session of College Council

• Powerpoint slides of proposed governance changes, from special session of College Council

• College Council Executive Committee informative email

The following is copied over from

https://csi-covid19.github.io/CCFS/Mar-SpecialMeeting/

Video

Susan Imberman kindly edited the recording of the special session of the College Council held March 11, 2021 down into a 20 minute video, attempting to fairly capture the sentiments raised within the meeting. It can be viewed at

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6rtdtt0hs9nmt9k/CC%20meeting%20traileV2.mp4?dl=0 Updated 3/18/2021

Statements by departments, committees, and other entitities

• Department of Mathematics

• Chemistry Department

• Course and Standing Committee response

• The Library

• The English Department

• The Department of Curriculum and Instruction passed this resolution on Monday, March 8th:

Resolved: The faculty of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction hereby censures President Fritz for the process he has employed to replace the current CSI Governance Plan. Further, the faculty rejects the governance plan he has proposed.

• The Department of Educational Studies

We the faculty of the Department of Educational Studies do hereby censure President Fritz for his unilateral proposal to replace the current CSI Governance Plan.

• Media Culture

• March 16th, 2021 statement by the Department of Performing and Creative Arts

We, the faculty, HEOs and CLT of the Performing and Creative Arts Department, oppose the proposed imposition of changes in governance structures. It is a document in which many proposed changes remain underdeveloped and it fails to detail how they would be implemented; it was created without due process of consultation with faculty and other stakeholders such as the standing By-Laws Committee and without the democratic process of approval by a majority of instructional staff; it diminishes faculty leadership; its abrupt and short timeline provides little opportunity for productive response. Therefore, we reject the proposal issued by the Office of the President on March 3, 2021.

• The Council of Chairs voted on this statement

We, the Chairpersons of the academic departments of the College of Staten Island, meeting as the Council of Chairs, object to the process through which the governance proposal has been presented without thorough consultation. We have strong concerns about the diminishment of the faculty role in academic decisions. We recommend a revised timeline that allows for careful consideration of every aspect of this plan and input from an array of stakeholders.

• The Research Committee

• The Department of Biology

• The History Department

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