Academic Assembly Update

April 27, 2021 Edition

Meeting Agenda

Table of Content

Chair's Report

V Academic Assembly

Elected Committees of the Assembly

X Executive Committee
V Academic Standards Committee
X Curriculum Committee
X Technology Committee

Volunteer Committees of the Assembly

X Campus Life Committee
X Committee to Oversee the Nature Preserve
X Committee for Serving the Needs of Persons with Disabilities
X Community Relations Committee
X FOCUS Committee
X Honors Advisory Committee
X Pedagogy Committee
X Physical Development Committee
V Scholarship Committee

Ad-Hoc Committees of the Assembly

X Working Group on Shared Governance at the College
X Emerging Education Issues Committee

Exploratory Committees of the Assembly

X Exploratory Group on Open Education

Reports from Assembly Representatives on College-Wide Committees

X Governance Task Force
V Academic Standards Committee
X Academic Integrity Committee
X Digital Committee
X Curriculum Committee
X General Studies Committee
X Academic Calendar Committee
X Applied Learning Committee
X Assessment Advisory Council
X Banner Users Group
V Bookstore Advisory Committee
X Class Size Committee
! Developmental Studies Advisory Committee
X Distance Education Committee
X Food Service Committee
X College Seminar Advisory Committee
X Commencement Committee
X College Honors Advisory Committee
X Institutional Review Board
X Middle States Self-Study Steering Committee
V Scholarship Committee
X Sexual Harassment and Anti-Discrimination Committee
V Strategic Planning Council
X Student Publication Board
X Undocumented Students Task Force
X Center for Social Justice and Human Understanding
X Health and Safety Committee

National and State-wide Organizations

X American Association of University Professors
X Faculty Council on Community Colleges

Departments and Programs

X Library
X Academic Tutoring Center
X Photographic Imaging Program
X Communication and the Arts
X Gallery West
X Chemical Dependency Counseling

Student Organizations

X Theatre Club
X CARES Club
X Women's Club
X Take Back the Night Planning Committee
X COL 110 Class
X Helping Hands Fund
X History Classes
X English Honors Society

Chair's Report

Grant Campus

This is the last Assembly meeting in my term as chair, and I would like to use this opportunity to thank everybody who helped me in my job over the last four years.

I came to this position in a difficult moment in the history of shared governance at our institution. Vice President Beaudin was instrumental in bringing the three campuses together. He created a space where regular conversations between governance and administrators, as well as among the governance leaders themselves, could take place, and maintained courteous and welcoming atmosphere that enabled effective and honest communication that is so crucial for shared governance. I hope these regular meetings becomes an institutional tradition.

I would also like to thank my counterparts from the other two campuses: Nina Acquavita, Paul Basileo, Laurey Buckley, and Daniel Linker never ceased to impress me with their professionalism and dedication to Faculty Governance. I would not be able to do my job without their council and support.

Last but not least, I would like to express my deepest appreciation and gratitude to all of you -- the fellow members of the Grant Campus Academic Assembly -- for your support and principled position throughout these years. Your commitment to our common mission and your integrity sustain a genuine faculty governance system at the Grant Campus. Thank you for the privilege and opportunity to serve the Assembly as Chair!

Elected Committees of the Assembly

Grant Campus
Grant Campus

Grant Academic Standards met on 4/20/21.

Grant Campus
Bruce Seger (co-chair), Janet Simpson (co-chair)
Grant Campus
Kerry Carlson (co-chair), Joshua Wolfson (co-chair)

Volunteer Committees of the Assembly

Grant Campus
Lisa Hamilton (co-chair), Joy Mahabir (co-chair)
Grant Campus
Jeff Epstein (co-chair), Louis Roccanova (co-chair)
Grant Campus
Michele Gentile (co-chair), John Jerome (co-chair)
Grant Campus
Grant Campus
Grant Campus
Grant Campus
Gregory Ryan (chair)
Grant Campus
Grant Campus
Adrienne Chu (co-chair), Theresa Donnell (co-chair)

The deadline to apply for continuing student scholarships is Friday, May 28. There are still several scholarships that have no applications. It would be very helpful if the following information and attached document can be shared with students (Blackboard announcement, mention in real-time online classes, mention when assisting students, emailed to students, etc.). Thank you in advance!!

Information to share with students:

There are some 2021-2022 Grant campus continuing student scholarships in which there are either no applicants or only one applicant but multiple awards available. If you are planning to continue taking classes at SCCC in the Fall semester, please take a look at the following list of scholarships and apply if you meet the criteria. The attached document specifies all the necessary criteria. The deadline to apply is Friday, May 28, 2021. To apply, go to the main SCCC home page > Quick Links > Scholarships, and sign in using your MySCCC username and password. There are also many other scholarships that you may be eligible for, which you can check out on the scholarship website as well. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Professor Adrienne Chu (chua@sunysuffolk.edu) or Director Terri Donnell (donnelt@sunysuffolk.edu).

The following scholarships are for Grant campus students only (your major/home campus must be Grant campus to be eligible):

  • Barbara Burggraf Memorial – Business; Computer Information or Information Technology program
  • Computer and Info Processing Society – Computer Information or Information Technology program
  • Dawnmarie Gerenstein Memorial – college or community service
  • D.I.S.C. – documented disability
  • Frances Plourd/AME – be a part of the AME union
  • Giuseppe Nigro Lodge No. 2234 OSIA – 3.6 GPA or higher
  • Harold and Louise Perkal Memorial – Criminal Justice program
  • Helen Weinstein Memorial – Business or Accounting program; returning student; college or community service
  • HVAC Oil Heat Institute – HVAC program
  • Human Resources Club – college and community service
  • Margaret and James O’Brien Memorial – college and community service
  • Mark Steinbuck Memorial – Business Admin-Marketing program; returning student
  • Michael Francis Cunningham Memorial – Veteran
  • Mimi Krinsky Memorial – Business, Computer Information Systems or Information Technology program
  • National Coalition of 100 Black Women – work study or co-op position; community service
  • Preston Family Memorial – financial need and submit a writing sample
  • Rosemarie Dilks Memorial – Accounting program
  • Tracey Stark Memorial – General Studies or Humanities – two semesters of a foreign language; General Studies or Humanities program
  • Vanessa Todd Memorial for Creative Writing – submit a creative writing piece
  • Vanessa Todd Memorial for Fine Art – submit a photo of a fine art piece
  • Walter Hamilton Memorial – Business or Accounting program; returning student
Adrienne Chu (co-chair)

Ad-Hoc Committees of the Assembly

Grant Campus
Working Group on Shared Governance at the College
Grant Campus
Gregory Ryan (chair)

Exploratory Committees of the Assembly

Grant Campus
Exploratory Group on Open Education

Reports from Assembly Representatives on College-Wide Committees

College-wide
Governance Task Force
Virginia Horan (representative), John Jerome (representative), Bruce Seger (representative)
College-wide
Academic Standards Committee
Christine Davidson (chair), Jeff Epstein (representative), Barbara Fox (representative), Jill Giresi​ (representative), Scott Votke (representative), Zhong Wang (representative)

College Wide Academic Standards met on 4/1/21. The resolution to include one- and two-credit PED courses to count toward unrestricted electives passed at both Assembly and Senate; Eastern Congress tabled the resolution at their last meeting. The resolution to remove the PED waiver was passed by all three governance bodies and will be put into effect Fall 2021.

Jill Giresi​ (representative)
College-wide
Alyssa Kauffman (representative)
College-wide
Digital Committee
Kerry Carlson (representative), Joshua Wolfson (representative)
College-wide
Curriculum Committee
Joseph Gatti (representative), Jason Ramirez (representative), Bruce Seger (representative), Janet Simpson (representative)
College-wide
General Studies Committee
John Cyr (representative), Marc Fellenz (representative), James Remsen (representative), Daniel Wishnoff (representative)
College-wide
Academic Calendar Committee
Joy Borrero (representative)
College-wide
Applied Learning Committee
June Ohrnberger (representative)
College-wide
Alexander Kasiukov (representative)
College-wide
Banner Users Group
Michele Gentile (representative)
College-wide
Bookstore Advisory Committee
Adrienne Chu (representative)

The deadline for submitting Summer textbook orders was April 12 and the deadline for submitting Fall textbook order is May 24. Please see the attached document or refer to Campus Brief #53 (dated 3/19/21).

Adrienne Chu (representative)
College-wide
Jaclyn Labozzetta (representative), Hope Sasway (representative), Scott Votke (representative)
College-wide
Developmental Studies Advisory Committee
Maria Alzugaray (representative)

Developmental Studies Advisory Committee has not met since my last update. Nothing has been scheduled.

Maria Alzugaray (representative)
College-wide
Distance Education Committee
Melissa Adeyeye (representative), Joshua Wolfson (representative)
College-wide
Food Service Committee
Joshua Wolfson (representative)
College-wide
College Seminar Advisory Committee
Lauren Sollazzo (representative), Dawn Tracy-Hanley (representative)
College-wide
Commencement Committee
Elisa Mancuso (representative)
College-wide
College Honors Advisory Committee
Adrienne Chu (representative), David Marshall (representative)
College-wide
Institutional Review Board
Jason Cascone (representative)
College-wide
Middle States Self-Study Steering Committee
Daniel Linker (co-chair), Lauren Tacke-Cushing (co-chair)
College-wide
Scholarship Committee
Adrienne Chu (representative), Theresa Donnell (representative)
Adrienne Chu (representative)
College-wide
Sexual Harassment and Anti-Discrimination Committee
Andrea Macari (representative)
College-wide
Kathleen Ayers-Lanzilotta (representative), Janet Haff (representative), Joshua Wolfson (representative)

Around the end of March the Council affirmed the current 2013-2020 Strategic Plan until December 2021. (This is an extension of a similar decision, taken in April 2020, which affirmed the original Plan until August 2021.)

The Council met on April 22, 2021. It elected Kaliah Greene as the Co-Chair of the Council, replacing Vice President Jeffrey Pedersen, who recently retired.

In the meeting, the Council deliberated on its plans of restarting 2020-2027 Strategic Planning process in April 2021, with the target completion date in December 2021. The issue of adopting the plan ahead of the new College President hiring was discussed. Members stressed the need to build the new Strategic Plan with the possibility of its future adjustment by the incoming President, and the necessity of incorporating the new post-COVID realities in it.

The Council also discussed the possibility of shortening the time scope of our Strategic Planning Process. Currently our plans cover 7 year spans, but many institutions opt for a shorter 3 or 5 year period.

Alexander Kasiukov (as Chair of the Assembly)
College-wide
Student Publication Board
Joseph Gatti (representative)
College-wide
Undocumented Students Task Force
Patty Munsch (chair)
College-wide
Susan DeMasi (representative)
College-wide
Health and Safety Committee
Kerry Carlson (representative), Kevin McCoy (chair), Hope Sasway (representative)

National and State-wide Organizations

National
American Association of University Professors
Marc Fellenz (representative)
SUNY
Faculty Council on Community Colleges
Danna Prather Davis (representative)

Departments and Programs

Grant Campus
Library
Grant Campus
Grant Campus
Photographic Imaging Program
Grant Campus
Communication and the Arts
Jason Ramirez (co-chair)
Grant Campus
Chemical Dependency Counseling

Student Organizations

Grant Campus
Theatre Club
Grant Campus
CARES Club
Grant Campus
Women's Club
Grant Campus
Take Back the Night Planning Committee
Grant Campus
COL 110 Class
Grant Campus
Helping Hands Fund
Grant Campus
History Classes
Grant Campus
English Honors Society