County Community College
Michael J. Grant Campus
Michael J. Grant Campus
Please see the draft and let the governance chair know if you notice any issues.
(I am including the old forms below. The materials for the SUNY awards and ranks may need to be updated, but the initial nomination can still use the old forms.)
The SUNY 2019-2020 Chancellor's Awards for Excellence are System-level honors conferred to acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence. Please use the SUNY Chancellor's Award Nomination Form to nominate your colleagues. Further information is available at Chancellor's Award Page on the Governance Web Site.
The SUNY Distinguished Faculty Ranks are created by the SUNY Board of Trustees as a prestigious system-level distinction. It is the highest system tribute conferred upon SUNY faculty. Please use the SUNY Distinguished Faculty Ranks Nomination Form to nominate your colleagues.
The Governance Awards for Academic Excellence and Service are given annually to one recipient from each campus. These awards recognize our colleagues whose contributions resulted in substantial positive effect on the College community and/or the institution. All nominees who wish to be considered for this award will be required to submit a vita to the selection committee by May 1, 2019. The winner will be announced at our May Assembly meeting, and honored at the Governance Awards Luncheon in the fall.
Please send your nominations to the Assembly chair no later than April 19, 2019. Please also consider the possibility of running for vacancies that will open at the end of this year. A detailed elections guide is coming in the next couple of weeks.
The College is working on its feedback that has to be submitted to SUNY by May 1, 2019 deadline.
Please see the list of SUNY GenEd courses from page 191 of the catalog.
The office of Vice President Beaudin has been working on program plans for part-time students as part of the Guided Pathways initiative. These program plans will take form of templates that departments will be able to use in helping students navigate through course prerequisites and help them with transferability of their credits. The plan is to have these templates ready in September 2019.
College placement has been changed; the new system gives more weight to high school tests. Consequently, fewer incoming students are placed in developmental courses. In October 2019, we will be able to get our first data for comparison between the old and the new system.
DegreeWorks is released as a replacement for SAIN for this Priority Registration. It is ADA-complient and is more informative and user-friendly than the old system. Multiple training opportunities on how to use DegreeWorks are offered to faculty and student services.
A Customer Relations Management (CRM) softwere is being considered as a tool for follow-up and communication with prospective and current students. Teresa Saladino is the point person at Grant.
A College Scheduler program has been purchased. Besides helping students and councellors in making schedules for individual students, this tool facilitates College-wide planning in terms of the number of sections to offer.
Student application process has been changed. The new procedure allows to complete the full course of application online.
The College formed Insecurity Task Force to help students in addressing external problems many of them face, such as homelessness, financial and food insecurity, child care, domestic violence, transportation issues, mental health problems etc. Please contact Vice President Adams if you are interested in contributing to this work. This is a part of SUNY-wide effort.
The Review Committee is working on the formal application process for people who want to get financial incentives for developing OER materials. The Committee is still looking for faculty volunteers. Please contact Professor Basileo if you are interested in joining it. The Committee is particularly interested in Humanities faculty representation.
The survey was distributed in paper format at the February 26 Assembly meeting and at March 12 Professional Development Day. In total, 77 responses from all three campuses were received. This represents less than one fourth of the total membership of the faculty governance. The number of participants from Ammerman (16) is particularly low in comparison with the faculty population of that campus.
A strong majority of respondents supported a formally sanctioned tri-campus body at the Ammerman (84%) and Grant (72%). The Eastern Campus faculty was split in two equal parts on that issue. A majority supported the Task Force's proposal "as is" or with minor adjustments on all three campuses. Yet, reflecting internally contradictory nature of about one third of the responses, a majority of Eastern Campus (77%) and a slight majority of Grant (53%) participants expressed preference for some arrangements that substantially differ from the proposal under consideration. At the Ammerman Campus, these alternative views were shared among one fourth of the respondents (26%).
On Sunday, March 31, 2019 the New York State Assembly passed the the 2019/2020 State Budget. The State aid for community colleges increased $100 per FTE. The Budget also restored funding for childcare centers (which was the subject of one of our recent resolutions) and kept 98% of community colleges funding for next year.
The same weekend, Professor Art Lundahl was recognized at the FCCC plenary with the Distinguished Service Award. Congratulations Art!
The Campus Life Committee met regularly in Fall 2018 and has been meeting regularly this semester. Our next meeting is scheduled for 4/23/19 at 3:30 p.m. in Captree 114. Our committee is working on the following:
The Community Relations Committee has been hard at work getting this years Volunteer Day event planned. The event will be held this Wednesday April 10th 11:00-12:30 in the LRC Lobby. We have many organizations looking for student volunteers. Please announce this volunteering opportunity to your students!
The deadline to apply for Grant campus Fall 2019 scholarships is Tuesday, May 28. Please encourage students to apply. Students can find more information regarding scholarships by going to SCCC home page > Quick Links > Scholarships > AcademicWorks. To apply for the scholarships that are available, they need to log on to the Online Scholarship System with their usual SCCC login and password. If students have further questions, they can contact Adrienne Chu or Terri Donnell.
Please announce to your students that the last scholarship workshop for this semester will be held on 4/24/19 from 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM in Captree 13. This workshop will provide information regarding the Fall 2019 continuing student scholarships and will go over the application process.
The Council met on Thursday, February 7, 2019. The new members, as well as the former membership of the Program Review Subcommittee, joined the Annual Academic Assessment Subcommittee which was overwhelmed with its workload. With this change, the Annual Academic Assessment Subcommittee has 14 members divided into 7 pairs of one veteran member and one new member each. The Subcommittee is planning to complete its evaluation of 2017-2018 Academic Program Reviews by the end of March. The next meeting of the AAC is Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Council is planning to discuss various ways of strenghtening the assessment culture at the College, including the idea of creating special awards recognizing individuals and departments who exceeded expectations in their work on assessment.
The committee will have its next meeting on Friday April 12 at 10 AM.
The Class Size Committee tabled a proposal at the end of the fall semester giving the proposer time to edit and revise the proposal for the committee to meet and vote upon this semester. The proposer did not have enough time to complete revisions by our intended April 4th, 2019 meeting. We are hoping that the proposer will finish revisions one week before our May 2nd meeting.
The deadline to apply for Grant campus Fall 2019 scholarships is Tuesday, May 28. Please encourage students to apply. Students can find more information regarding scholarships by going to SCCC home page > Quick Links > Scholarships > AcademicWorks. To apply for the scholarships that are available, they need to log on to the Online Scholarship System with their usual SCCC login and password. If students have further questions, they can contact Adrienne Chu or Terri Donnell.
