Papers and Statements

Public Higher Education as a Public Good

• Joint SUNY UFS, SUNY FCCC, and CUNY UFS EC Statement on Investing in Public Higher Education as the Public Good It Is 

Statements on the war in Ukraine

• Joint FCCC-UFS Statement on the war in Ukraine, 17 March 2022
• Campus statements
  • Buffalo State: "Resources Available to Support Ukraine and Affected Campus Community Members" (web link)
  • Cobleskill: "In Support of the People of Ukraine and One Another During These Difficult Times" (PDF)
  • Cornell: "Statement of President Martha E. Pollack on War in Ukraine"; "Vice Provost Statement on the War in Ukraine"
  • Geneseo: "College Senate Statement on the War and Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine" 
  • Potsdam: "Faculty Senate Resolution of Support for Ukraine"
  • U Buffalo: "Standing in Solidarity with Ukraine" (President Tripathi); "Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Stands in Solidarity with Ukraine"
  • "Statement from Faculty in Ukrainian, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the State University of New York"

2022/2023 NY State Budget 

• Executive Committee Statement on the Executive Budget​, 22 February 2022
•  Approved Resolution 189-02-1: "Executive Budget Resolution"

UFS Statements on Chancellor Malatras and SUNY Leadership
Adopted by the UFS Executive Committee, 9 December 2021

• SUNY University Faculty Senate Statement on the Resignation of Chancellor Malatras

Adopted by the UFS Executive Committee, 7 December 2021

• SUNY University Faculty Senate Statement on Chancellor Malatras and Workplace Culture ​​
  • Joint Statement on the Search for the SUNY Chancellor - August 2020
  • Vote of No Confidence in Politically Appointed Members of SUNY Board of Trustees - August 2020​

UFS Statements on Racial Equity and Social Justice
Adopted by the UFS Executive Committee, 21 March 2021

• SUNY UFS Statement on Atlanta Murders​

Adopted by the UFS Executive Committee, 12 June 2020

• Statement on Racial Equity and Social Justice 
  • A Call to Action for our Colleagues
  • Call to Action to our Administrations​

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UFS White Papers 

• Ethics and Institutional Integrity Committee January 2023: "Academic Panopticon? The Ethics of Proctoring Technologies."         
  • ​​Online learning has become an integral part of our higher-learning education system. In recent years, Higher education has increasingly made online courses available to its students. Even a decade ago, Adkins (2011) indicated that more than 1.25 million students took online courses. In 2018, a Babson Survey Research Group report indicated that between 2015 and 2016, 30% of post-secondary students had taken at least one online course (Seaman et al., 2018; Woldeab and Brothen, 2019). With the limited in-person opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic, higher-learning institutions rushed to convert their in-person courses to an online format. In doing so, many of its students were introduced to remote proctoring and algorithmic test-proctoring software (Barrett, 2021). Traditional testing was usually conducted in a controlled setting, where instructors monitored their students in classrooms.  However, with in-person limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic, instructors were asked to give their exams online and thus gravitated to using some form of remote proctoring technology (Bergmans et al., 2021). Remotely proctored exams attempt to reproduce face-to-face exam conditions in the online environment, involving a combination of software lockdown, student authentication, and active monitoring for the exam duration (live or recorded; Dawson et al., 2020)."
• Ethics and Institutional Integrity Committee, April 2020: "Fair Access? White paper on Ethics and Open Educational Resources"
  • "As awareness and funding for open educational resources (OER) has proliferated, many ethical issues regarding the adoption, adaption, and creation of OER have arisen. This white paper neither advocates nor opposes the use of OER; rather, it attempts to articulate and provide guidance with regard to addressing these issues."
• Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies Committee, Fall 2020:  Building Individualized Course Outcome Models to Enhance Student Success: A Primer 
  • ​"A step-by-step guide describing how to use commonly available data analytic tools to identify at-risk students in courses."

SUNY General Education Review Papers

• White Paper
• Green Paper

SUNY UFS Resource Documents 

• Free Speech toolkit 
• Academic Freedom toolkit

SUNY DEI Action Plan, February 2021
Action Plan on Issues of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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