Welcome

Dr. Craig Lending, The College at Brockport

• SUNY via FACT is a member of the new media consortium
• Twitter

Dr. Deborah Stanley, President of SUNY Oswego

• instructional technology is now the "Eggplant that ate chicago"
• everyone on the other side of the desk is "the old people"
• Virtual Thanksgiving dinner using web cam
• Keeping up with technology to stay in touch with children

Dr. Risa Palm

• Advance the curriculum and the way we can effectively delivery content to an increasingly diverse student population
  • modes of learning
  • backgrounds
• We can't assume they have standard background knowledge
• Provost Update
  • Course redesign - Redesign large courses to make them more effective
    • Meeting on June 5th to share ideas
  • Sponsoring a meeting between CAO and SCLD-eb to begin a discussion on Open Access
    • It's an issue of who has access to the intellectual content our faculty are developing
    • how we understand the new modes of communication vis-a-vis Promotion and Tenure
    • If SUNY is going to be at the forefront, we need to confront these.
  • Fact Council changing leadership
    • Outgoing chair, Dr. Craig Lending