College-wide Governance Meeting

1. College-wide Governance Meeting January 22, 2014, 12:45 PM, Gateway A&B

2. Agenda • Minutes (Donaghy) • Opening Remarks/Announcements (Donaghy) • Presidential Address (Wheeler) • CoC Actions (Daley) • Promotion and Tenure Report (Malmsheimer)

3. 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

4. Mentoring Colloquium January 8, 2014 • Scott Blair • Kelley Donaghy • Theodore Endreny • Melissa Fierke • Douglas Johnston • Neil Ringler • Scott Turner • Stephen Weiter • Theresa Kaier-May

5. Mentoring Colloquium Results • Satisfied with program: 67% S and 28% VS • Length: 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

6. 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.

7. Envisioning our Sustainable FutureESF Quentin Wheeler

8. First steps:ListenReview strategic planUnderstand curriculum/student experienceIdentify “right” questions that brand ESFStrategic PR Plan Quentin Wheeler

9. HOW DOES SOCIETY SHAPE ITS VALUES? • SCHOOL OF HISTORY, PHILOSOPY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES • History • Philosophy • Religious studies/Jewish studies • Asia studies • SCHOOL OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION • Justice and social inquiry • African-American studies • Asian-Pacific/American studies • Women & gender studies HOW DO WE BUILD SUSTAINABLE CITIES? • SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES & URBAN PLANNING • Geography • Urban planning • GIS HOW DO WE GIVE AND USE POWER? HOW DO WE PREDICT NATURAL PROCESSES? • SCHOOL OF POLITICS & GLOBAL STUDIES • American politics • International relations • Cultural perspectives and place • Violence, conflict and human rights • SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL & STATISTICAL SCIENCES • Mathematics and statistics • Mathematical biology • Mathematics education

11. “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

12. clarity of visioncourage of purposebold leadership

13. We will educate and inspire environmental leaders, explore the natural world, and blaze the trail to a sustainable futureBig. Audacious. Inspiring. Vision

14. Differentiate 984% 2008 = 13 2012 = 141

15. ESF Design Imperatives:1. Ask the “right” questions2. Transformative education3. Conceptual consilience4. Measure success inside out5. Evolutionary entrepreneurism6. Leverage with partnerships7. Power of place8. Balance fundamental discovery and problem-solving Quentin Wheeler

16. 1. Ask the “right” questions Quentin Wheeler

17. “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

18. What 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 Quentin Wheeler

19. 2. Transformative education Quentin Wheeler

20. Transformative Impact on Student Lives Educated Passionate Courageous Liberal Arts PLUS Science, Sustainability, Cultural, Global “Literacies” PLUS Awareness: e.g., Team-work Tolerance

21. Transformative Impact on Society:public science educationon-ground impactreliable, objective knowledge Quentin Wheeler

22. 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

23. SECS in the CitySustainability Education and Citizen Science in New York City

24. 3. Conceptual ConsilienceTransdisciplinarity Quentin Wheeler

25. 4. Success Inside OutESF will measure success in the quality of students, knowledge, and impact it produces — not the quantity of dollars it brings ini.e., revenue streams are a means, not an end Quentin Wheeler

26. 5. Evolutionary EntrepreneurismESF will be an engine for an adaptation economy Quentin Wheeler

27. Quentin Wheeler

28. 6. Leverage PartnershipsSUNYNYSNYCnationalinternational Quentin Wheeler

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

30. 7. Power of PlaceSyracuse UniversitySyracuseAdirondacksNYC Quentin Wheeler

31. 8. Balance Curiosity-Driven Discovery and Problem-Solving Solutions Quentin Wheeler

32. “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge” —Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of U. S. Congress

36. 1. Biosphere Baseline

37. 2. Adaptation Economics Evolutionary Entrepreneurism Natural history, informatics, biomimicry

38. 3. Origins

39. Source: Pink Floyd “Tree of Half Life”album cover by Storm Thorgerson.

41. Think ecologically, act evolutionarily Recognize open niches Develop interconnected networks Maximize options and adapt

42. “Department” of shameless self-promotion Popularize vision, discoveries, and achievements, packaged in ways to capture public imagination

44. Top 10 New Species 2013

45. Curriculum Committee Report to Faculty Governance 1/22/2014

46. Report Items • Communications • Website 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 Science • Forest Resources Management • Natural Resources Management • Sustainable 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

47. P&T Committee Report Bob Malmsheimer Chair

48. Members of the ESF P&T Committee • Bob Malmsheimer, Chair (FNRM) • Robin Kimmerer (EFB) • Chuck Kroll (ERE) • Matthew Potteiger (LA) • BandaruRamarao (PBE) • David Sonnenfeld (ES) • William Smith (SCME) • Arthur Stipanovic (CHEM).

49. 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.

50. Overarching Guidelines for Review • Use lessons learned from the CRC’s experience with the standards and process during the past 2 years. • Goals: • Make standards clearer for candidates. • Make standards clearer for reviewers. • Make process clearer for candidates and reviewers.