CAPRA MEETING MINUTES
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Attending: Paul Bingham, Derek Cope, Dale Deutsch, Debra Dwyer, Shmuel Einav, Bill Godfrey, Norm
Goodman, Gene Katz, Meg Schedel
Guests: Dave Kale, William Kennelly, Ying Zhao
The meeting began a 2:34 p.m.
Derek Cope has replaced Konstantinos Plakas as the representative of the Undergraduate Student Government on the committee due to a class/meeting conflict.
Subcommittee reports
Strategic Plan/RCM/Faculty Resources subcommittee
There is as yet no “white paper” from the Finance and Budget Committee on the process
through which the RCM model will be implemented because there is not yet an agreement
within the committee and between the committee and the administration on a proposed
process. Also, apparently the SUNY administration had some reservations about the
implementation of an RCM model. It is clear that this model will produce “winners”
and “losers” so it is important to make it a “fair” process. One of the issues is
that in CAS, there are departments that are running large deficits and how this will
be handled is still not clear. However, Norm pointed out that the model identifies
a process that deals with this issue: mainly, there needs to be a determination of
whether a department/program can be financially self-sustaining; if not, consideration
needs to be given as to whether the department is essential to the university and,
if so, what can be done to maintain it; if not, the question is whether it should
be dropped needs to be addressed.
Paul and Deb made the point about the critical importance of “financial transparency”
for this process to be acceptable to the campus. And there is still the question of
whether this transparency will be at the level of the provost, college dean, or academic
department.
Equally important, there is as yet no publically available strategic plan for the
campus. Clearly, there is a link between a strategic plan and a budget model to support
the plan. The lack of either leads to critical the problem that decisions on academic
and resource issues will likely be made on an ad hoc basis rather than in the context of a strategic plan, which is clearly not the optimum
way these decisions should be made. Norm will discuss this issue with the University
Senate Executive Committee.
Stony Brook Medicine subcommittee
The committee met with Vice President Kaushansky to discuss developments on the
East Campus. Parking is still an important issue and is being considered by Vice President
Kaushansky is considering some alternative ways of dealing with this issue. Also,
he is in the process of developing a strategic plan for the East Campus.
Satellite Campuses subcommittee
Jackie Collier will be asked to have Bob Reeves attend our next meeting to discuss
the current plans for the Southampton campus.
Enrollment at Stony Brook Manhattan is declining and the subcommittee will need
to examine the reason for this and what plans the administration has in light of this
fact.
Imin Kao, Associate Dean of CEAS, will discuss the programs at SUNY/Korea at our
next meeting.
The meeting ended at 3:47 p.m.