Faculty Senate, Schemes and Mind Maps of Immunology

Download Faculty Senate and more Schemes and Mind Maps Immunology in PDF only on Docsity! Faculty Senate November 9, 2022 ALL IN-PERSON ATTENDEES PLEASE SIGN-IN ON ONE OF THE SHEETS ALL ZOOM ATTENDEES PLEASE SIGN-IN VIA THE CHAT SENATORS: Name and Department FACULTY GUESTS: Name and Department NON-FACULTY GUESTS: Name and Affiliation PRESS: Name and Affiliation Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ Land Acknowledgement Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters. This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' leadership. Q & A with President Martha Pollack Computing and Information Science Pilot project update: Centralized support for student disability services (SDS) accommodations Lisa Nishii, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; Industrial and Labor Relations SDS TESTING ACCOMMODATIONS PILOT Lisa Nishii, VPUE November 9, 2022 Pilot Overview Spring 2022 Fall 2022 • Piloted central support for evening prelims − Hired, trained, and assigned proctors for accommodated prelims (2 professional/grad student proctors/exam) − Reserved exam rooms • Supported total of 43 evening prelims • Continued supporting evening prelims and will support final exams • Launched pilot for daytime exams • Supporting daytime exams is challenging: − Limited access to classrooms − Students with extended time have course conflicts before and/or after main exam time − Proctors also have classes • Total # of Courses (day & eve): ~70 courses; 60 faculty Sample selection for Fall ‘22 pilot program for daytime exams Primary instructors of FA22 courses surveyed over the summer N=140 expressed interest in the pilot ~ 77 requested wrap-around support* *Wrap-around support includes: (1) rooms; (2) proctors; (3) coordinating with students; (4) collecting & returning exams; (5) resolving conflicts ~ 63 interested in a la carte support N=32 courses committed (some with multiple sections) How the Pilot Works FACULTY Faculty are granted access to the SDS Faculty Portal to register their courses and provide info about their exams (time and length, restrictions on tech and supplemental materials, how to return exam, etc.) Remind students that they need to register their accommodation request(s) at least 5 business days prior to 1st exam. STUDENTS Students register their accommodation request for a particular course via the SDS Portal. Students send all questions directly to SDS_testing@cornell.edu SDS For faculty: Facilitates all exam details, portal support, proctor management For students: Communicates exam logistics and scheduling directly to students After each exam, proctors provides exam report to faculty (attendance and any additional observations) Photos, illustrations, graphics here. Scheduling conflicts are much more common for daytime exams • Class conflicts are inevitable – some students have another class both before and after target course • Not appropriate for faculty to expect students to skip another class so they can take their accommodated exam concurrently • Therefore, flexibility required to schedule alternate testing times Peak hours are overcrowded (courses not sufficiently distributed across class meeting times) • 10am - 2 p.m. exams are the hardest to schedule due to limited room availability • This is also when students have the most conflicts with other courses Contacting SDS • Emails that are sent to address other than sds_testing@cornell.edu not receiving rapid response Challenges Photos, illustrations, graphics here. • Earlier deadline for students to request accommodations - would allow us to streamline scheduling and communication • Improve FAQs for faculty and students, include timelines, more detailed step-by-step instructions • Clearer communication/partnership with unit schedulers (with your help!) • Try to develop workarounds in rigid platform (“AIM”) so that it’s possible to automate scheduling for students with class conflicts Responding to the Challenges: • At first, only students were receiving confirmation about test time and location – now, copying faculty • Wherever possible, have clarified communication (the workflow is different for courses that are part of pilot, which has been source of confusion) • Strengthening partnerships with schedulers Changes made thus far Changes planned for Spring 2023 Goal: • Increase the number of courses supported for daytime exams & evening prelims • Potential to scale to 20 exams/day Keys to Success: • Game changers would be: (1) being able to require students to request accommodations within first 2 weeks of semester; (2) having space for ~80+ we can count on all day, every day (and find ad hoc rooms for the rest); and (3) having agreed upon prioritization system for SDS room requests within 25-Live • Faculty flexibility with managing student exam conflicts, perhaps with agreed upon default (e.g., 8am) • Better distribution of courses across class meeting patterns (i.e., de-densify 10am-2pm as much as possible) Spring 2023 Pilot Task Force on Library Research Infrastructure Commissioned by the Cornell University Librarian and the Vice President for Research and Innovation Rachel Weil (Chair), Professor of History Jeremy Braddock, Associate Professor of Literatures in English Andrew Hicks, Associate Professor of Music and Medieval Studies Ellis Loew, Professor of Physiology, Biomedical Sciences (Vet) Erich Mueller, Professor of Physics Lois Pollack, John Edson Sweet Professor of Engineering Task Force on Library Research Infrastructur e (TFLRI) Appointed in Spring 2021 by Vice President for Research and Innovation Emmanuel Giannelis and University Librarian Gerald Beasley as a faculty committee that is independent of the Library and its administration. Comprising six faculty members with appointments across the University. it was charged with considering the infrastructure that Cornell researchers in all disciplines will need from the Cornell University Library (CUL) over the next decade. Our Report was submitted in July, 2022 Our Hopes for the Report We have sought to articulate critical questions about the role of CUL in the research landscape and to establish a common understanding and framework for addressing the challenges ahead. We do not intend to micromanage the Library. We tried to write the report so that non-librarians can understand it. We hope to facilitate better communication between CUL, the Faculty, and the Administration. Therefore we hope the report will be widely read by faculty. Challenges to the Library in fulfilling this mission. • Rising cost of serials • Rise of Open-Access publishing • Existence of Digital, subscription-based alternatives to print • Increasing demand for CUL to provide tools and training in new research methods. • Digitization • Maintenance and utilization of Library space • Increasing complexity of Cornell as an institution The rising cost of serials Five scholarly publishers (Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Wiley-Blackwell, Springer Nature, and Sage) now control approximately 50% of all scholarly journal publishing and return profits of 35–40% to their shareholders. This consolidation has led to an exponential increase in pricing for academic journals. Between 1998 and 2018 the total amount of serial expenditures increased 166%, compared with a 68% increase in “one-time resource expenditures” (i.e., monographs). The “big five” also pose newly emerging problems for issues related to ethics, privacy, and academic independence. Open Access (OA) Publishing • A new and increasingly popular business model shifts the costs of publication from the reader to the author (or the author’s institution) and makes scholarly communications freely available via digital platforms. • Raises question of what is a fair, sustainable OA model (equity of access for authors, no extortionate price for publication, etc) • Cornell will need to develop a transparent policy for supporting fair, sustainable OA. Sources of Information for the Report • Publicly available data provided by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) regarding spending by research libraries across the United States and Canada (re expenditures on materials • Meetings with 20+ librarians across CUL , mostly in Fall semester of 2021. These meetings were organized by the the Library Executive Group (AULs Xin Li, Bonna Boetcher, Simeon Warner, and Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty). • 2021 Faculty Library Survey (conducted by CUL), given to faculty only. It asked questions about the faculty’s usage of the Library both for research and for teaching in the year 2021. • Our own of faculty and graduate students to assess the perceived adequacy of Library resources. Received 664 complete responses (304 faculty members and 358 graduate/professional students. Caveats about the two surveys (CUL and TFLRI) Neither survey had a high rate of response (and we cannot gauge the rate for our own survey) Any survey done in 2021 reflects the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic Key takeaways from TFLRI survey (some numbers) 22% of all respondents (25% of faculty and 19% of graduate/professional students) indicated that Library cuts have “negatively affected their research.” 29% of A&S respondents indicate that “only some of their research needs are met” by CUL collections and that they “regularly” need to acquire resources (digital, print, or database access) from outside the CUL system (BorrowDirect, Interlibrary Loan, or colleagues at other institutions). 30% of faculty respondents from CALS report increased publication costs from subscription cancellations . 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Try: Takes 1-7 days for items to arrive Or search for other versions of this item: Search by ISBN/ISSN Search bv Title Necessary Investments Identified in our report Investment in Diversity Investment in Collections (non-RAD) Investment in Collective Action to Bring Down the Cost of Journals and Combat Predatory Practices among Publishers Investment in Discoverability and Cataloging Investment in Transparency and Communication between CUL and Faculty Investment in Digital Scholarship and Research Services Investment in Rare and Distinctive Collections Investment in Physical Space Investment in Discoverability and Cataloging • If researchers cannot discover an item in our collection, there is no point in having it. • We reject an either/or choice between purchasing materials and investing in the expertise needed to make them discoverable to users. • Challenges to making material discoverable include: • Quality and consistency of metadata provided by digital vendors (hence “Get it Cornell” problem) • • cataloging materials that are unique to Cornell’s collections is labor intensive and requires more investment in staff to keep up. Investment in Communication between Library and Faculty • CUL and CU face hard choices in the future in response to the skyrocketing costs of journals and the emergence of new purchasing models. All these choices must be made transparently, with faculty fully informed and involved. • Conversely, collections cannot be determined solely by invidividual faculty requests. Patron-driven models of collection development are short sighted, reactive, and unrealistic. • Making good choices requires effective communication between CUL administrators, selectors, and Cornell faculty. • The CUL Liaison program was meant to be an avenue for such communication, but has not been uniformly successful, and the number of liaisons has decreased since the program’s inception in 2011; we recommend a careful reassessment of the program. I have not covered all the necessary investments identified in our report. • Investment in Diversity • Investment in Collections (non-RAD) • Investment in Collective Action to Bring Down the Cost of Journals and Combat Predatory Practices among Publishers • Investment in Discoverability and Cataloging • Investment in Transparency and Communication between CUL and Faculty • Investment in Digital Scholarship and Research Services • Investment in Rare and Distinctive Collections • Investment in Physical Space Senate Q&A Senate Committee Update: Financial Policies Committee Luis Schang, Chair; Microbiology and Immunology Senate Q&A Senate Announcements and Updates • Have convened the Chairs of the College Academic Integrity Hearing Board and a representative from the Office of the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education • Will examine the application of policies across Colleges • Will examine strategies to improve the efficiency of the hearing process Senate Q&A CORNELL UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE Good of the Order | Adjournment “#IAMYOURSENATOR