Documents by Plenary
187th Plenary / Virtual (online), due to COVID-19 response / 21-22 January, 2021
186th Plenary / Virtual (online), due to COVID-19 response / 15-17 October, 2020
185th Plenary / Virtual (online), due to COVID-19 response / 17 April, 2020
184th Plenary / U Albany / 16-18 January, 2020
183rd Plenary / SUNY System, Albany / 10-12 October, 2019
182nd Plenary / SUNY Potsdam / 11-13 April 2019
181st Plenary / SUNY Cobleskill / 17-19 January 2019
180th Plenary / Binghamton University / 18-20 October 2018
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- Agenda
- Committee Reports: Communications; Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity; Ethics and Institutional Integrity; Governance; Graduate Academic Programs and Research; Operations; Programs and Awards; Student Life; Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies / President's Travel Report
- Presentations: President's Report (Kay); Executive Committee Report (Landa); Chancellor's Report (Malatras); Provost's Report (Shahedipour-Sandvik); Elsevier (Science Direct) Agreement (One year later) (McBride, Pritting, Tovstiadi); SUNY Budget Briefing (McLoughlin); SUNY System Art in the Time of COVID: Competitions, Exhibitions and the new SUNY Student
Salon (Laursen); EID Committee (Grant); Graduate and Research Committee (Kaczocha); Programs and Awards Committee (Frania) - Resolutions for consideration: Executive Committee: Shared Governance in These Times of Extraordinary Challenges; Black Lives Matter Subcommittee: UFS Black Lives Matter Resolution (Board of Trustees); Black Lives Matter Subcommittee: UFS Black Lives Matter Resolution (University Faculty Senate); Undergraduate Committee: On Academic Planning for Responding to Future Crises
- Post-Plenary Report
186th Plenary / Virtual (online), due to COVID-19 response / 15-17 October, 2020
- Agenda
- Committee Reports: Communications; Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity; Ethics and Institutional Integrity; Governance; Graduate Academic Programs and Research; Operations; Programs and Awards; Student Life; Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies / President's Travel Report
- Presentations: President's Report (Kay); Executive Committee Report (Landa); Chancellor's Report (Malatras); Provost's Report (Laursen); "PRODiG Update" (Miller); "The First Amendment, Academic Freedom and Inclusion" (Casey)
- Resolutions for consideration: EID: "Racial Equity and Social Justice Curriculum"; EXEC: "Joint Statement on the Search for the SUNY Chancellor"; EXEC: "Vote of No Confidence in Politically Appointed Members of SUNY Board of Trustees"; EXEC: "Failure of shared governance at the University at Albany regarding program change"; GOV: "Importance of maintaining effective shared governance practices during times of crisis"
- Post-Plenary Report
185th Plenary / Virtual (online), due to COVID-19 response / 17 April, 2020
- Agenda / hashonomy
- Committee Reports: Communications; Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity; Ethics and Institutional Integrity (Supplemental White Paper: "Fair Access? White paper on Ethics and Open Educational Resources"); Governance; Graduate Academic Programs and Research; Operations; Programs and Awards; Student Life; Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies (Supplemental Report: "Free Freshman Year") / President's Travel Report
- Presentations: President's Report (Kay); Executive Committee Report (Landa); Chancellor's Report (Johnson); Provost's Report (Laursen); SUNY Online Q&A (Scalzo); UUP Report (Kowal)
- Vice President / Secretary Candidate Materials:
- Keith Landa: CV / candidate statement
- Sector Reps election - approved slate
- Post-Plenary Report (draft)
184th Plenary / U Albany / 16-18 January, 2020
- Agenda / (wireless instructions)
- Committee Reports: Communications; Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity; Ethics and Institutional Integrity; Governance; Graduate Academic Programs and Research; Operations; Programs and Awards; Student Life; Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies / President's Travel Report
- Committee Presentations: Ethics and institutional Integrity, Fitz-Gibbon; Graduate and Research, Kaczocha; Programs and Awards, Wall
- Presentations: UFS President; Chancellor; Provost; SUNY CFO; SUNY FCCC; SUNY SA; SUNY UUP; CUNY UFS; "Welcome", Lawrence; "Welcome", Rodriguez; "ArtForce5"; Napolitano; "Elsevier Update", McBride; "Access to Higher Education for the Currently and Formerly Incarcerated", Torriente
- Bylaws Discussion and Voting: "UFS Bylaws and Standing Rules: A very brief review", Rezac
- Working documents (For historical reference only. See the approved Bylaws and the approved Standing Rules for the current official documents of the University Faculty Senate.): ARTICLE I. ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSES, ARTICLE II. MEMBERSHIP, ARTICLE III. OFFICERS, ARTICLE IV. ORGANIZATION, ARTICLE V. SCOPE AND FUNCTIONS, ARTICLE VI. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, ARTICLE VII. MEETINGS, ARTICLE VIII. REPORTS AND RESOLUTIONS, ARTICLE IX. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS, ARTICLE X. DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES, ARTICLE XI. PARLIAMENTARY AUTHORITY, ARTICLE XII. ADOPTION AND AMENDMENT.
- Approved and collated: Bylaws / Standing Rules
- Approved Resolutions: Exec: "184-01-01 SUNY/CUNY Budget Resolution"
- Post-Plenary Report
183rd Plenary / SUNY System, Albany / 10-12 October, 2019
- Agenda / Social Media Hashonomy
- Committee Reports: Communications; Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity; Ethics and Institutional Integrity; Governance; Graduate Academic Programs and Research; Operations; Programs and Awards; Student Life; Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies / President's Travel Report
- Presentations: Chancellor; Provost; SUNY FCCC; SUNY SA; SUNY UUP; CUNY UFS; "Welcome to System", Campbell; "System History", Hildebrand; "Updates on Student Health and Wellness", Wentworth; "Elsevier Update", McBride
- Approved Resolutions: EID: "Campus EID Committees"; EID: "Affirming Diversity and Inclusion Values"; OP & GR: "SUNY Elsevier Negotiations"; EC: "Research Misconduct"; Floor Action: "Nobel Prize in Chemistry"
- Documents for Bylaws Revisions:
- Post-Plenary Report
182nd Plenary / SUNY Potsdam / 11-13 April 2019
- Agenda
- Committee Reports: Communications; Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity; Ethics and Institutional Integrity; Governance; Graduate Academic Programs and Research; Operations; Programs and Awards; Student Life; Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies / President's Travel Report
- Presentations: Chancellor; Provost; SUNY FCCC; SUNY SA; SUNY UUP; CUNY UFS; "Leading From the Front Lines: The Importance of Faculty Leadership in Response to, and Prevention of, Sexual and Interpersonal Violence", Storch; "Cultural Appreciation/Cultural Appropriation", Tiapo & Khan; "SUNY Childcare: Educate, Advocate, Elevate", Maillard
- Approved Resolutions: CGLs: "Appointment of Interim Administrators"; EID: "Pathways to Appointment and Promotion"; GOV: "Professional Employees and Shared Governance"; OP: "SUNY Onboarding"; OP: "Travel Reimbursement"; Specialized & Statutory: "Stand-alone Unit Head for NYSCC"; UG: "Course Withdrawal Deadlines"; UG: "Privatization, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance in Online Education"
- Post-Plenary Report
181st Plenary / SUNY Cobleskill / 17-19 January 2019
- Agenda
- Committee Reports: Communications; Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity; Ethics and Institutional Integrity; Governance; Graduate Academic Programs and Research; Operations; Programs and Awards; Student Life; Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies / President's Travel Report
- Presentations: Chancellor; Provost ("Online Initiative"); SUNY CFO; SUNY FCCC; SUNY SA; SUNY UUP; CUNY UFS; "PRODI-G Update", Miller; "Presidential Evaluations", Porter; "Veterans Affairs", Pasterchick; "Transfer Pathways", Knox
- Approved Resolutions:
- Post-Plenary Report
180th Plenary / Binghamton University / 18-20 October 2018
- Agenda
- Committee Reports: Communications; Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity; Ethics and Institutional Integrity; Governance; Graduate Academic Programs and Research; Operations; Programs and Awards; Student Life; Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies / President's Travel Report
- Presentations: Chancellor; Provost; SUNY FCCC; SUNY SA; SUNY UUP; CUNY UFS;
- Approved Resolutions:
- Post-Plenary Report
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