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CAPRA Minutes for Oct 18, 2013
Meeting time: 2:30 pm Oct 18, 2013
Chair: Norm Goodman
Attendees: Dale Deutsch, Pamela Wolfskill, Norm Goodman, Bill Godfrey, Deb Dwyer,
Shmuel Einav, Sophia Kao, Maria Ryan, Darren Chase, Clark McGrew
Minutes: Clark McGrew
Senate Meeting Report
- Comments on budget process sent to D. Assanis and M. Maciulatis; awaiting reply.
- Report was made at Senate meeting on Bio-informatics department proposal.
- Response to comments was made by K. Kaushansky addressing concerns raised in report.
- ACTION: Follow up with a request for review of the CAPRA recommendations status in Fall 2014.
Subcommittee Reports
- Enrollment Planning:
- Request a faculty member for the committee.
- Request letter to C. Robbins to find enrollment plans and targets.
- C. Robbins is taking over from M. Whelan
- Want to understand the plans for handling the mandated enrollment increases.
ACTION: Draft letter to Robbins.
- Academic Space Needs:
- Information requests for A. Drees.
- Request break down of types of space available.
- Request prior reports on space availability and needs.
- Look at implications of future space needs and allocation.
- Find out whose mandate it is to track research space.
- Information requests for A. Drees.
ACTION: Draft letter requesting meeting with Drees.
- Library:
- New Dean, Constantia Constantinou, is starting on campus.
- Dean will meet with B. Godfrey on Nov 7.
- Look at the possibility of action of all SUNY campuses when dealing with publishing houses to provide more negotiating leverage.
- Satellite Campuses:
- Has not met yet since main members are traveling.
- Plan for year:
- What is happening at Manhattan campus? Will we continue to have a presence in the city?
- What is happening at Southampton? Concern over program overlap of the two Theatre Arts departments, one on the Stony Brook campus and one on the Southampton campus.
- What is happening at SUNY Korea?
- Developing program in Computer Science, Technology and Society.
- SBU Medicine:
- Plan for year:
- Get budget and how it is allocated.
- Get strategic plans.
- How to plan new faculty hires and required support staff and services.
- Find allocation of program between main campus and South Hampton.
- Look at effect of the new medical school in Buffalo.
- Plan for year:
ACTION: Get in touch with K. Kaushansky.
- Organization: An updated organization chart was provided to CAPRA.
- Strategic Planning, Faculty Resources, etc.:
- Plan for year:
- Monitor budget model implementation.
- Monitor status of Institutional Research activities
- Insufficient resources are currently allocated to this office.
- Request final campus strategic plan.
- M. Whelan will address CAPRA on November 8th.
- Review strategic plan. Recommend that it is developed from "bottom up, then top down."
- Evaluate if the plan has merit.
- Evaluate efficacy of the cluster hires.
- How do the cluster hires fit into the strategic plan?
- Look at duplication between academic programs.
- Plan for year:
ACTION: Meet with M. Maciulatis to understand base budget allocations.
ACTION: Norm will query about current split in theatre arts between main campus and
South Hampton.
Group Actions
- Sub-committee chairs will send written sub-committee agendas for work in the coming year.