CAPRA MINUTES
CAPRA Minutes
November 9, 2007
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Attending: Alan Calder, Kane Gillespie, Bill Godfrey, Norman Goodman, and Alan Tucker
The meeting commenced at 2:35 P.M.
Agenda: This is to be a short meeting to hear progress reports from the subcommittees and for a few announcements.
- Quick update from the subcommittees:
- Southampton: Subcommittee met and submitted a report (see below)
- Reporting structures: Hasn’t met as yet
- Master’s degree programs: Is scheduled to meet on Thursday, November 15th at 2:15
- Business School: Hasn’t met as yet
- Alan Tucker will suggest to Jane Yahil that she meet with Robert Frey in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics who chairs the Search Committee for a Dean for the School of Business
3) Southampton subcommittee report (attached at the end of these minutes)
generated some discussion:
- Southampton is getting $100K for an undergraduate library. These funds are not coming from the Stony Brook campus library budget. Questions were raised as to whether this was adequate to Southampton’s needs and the consensus was that it would be adequate for this year since students at Southampton have access to electronic journals from the Stony Brook domain. Also, Southampton is getting their own librarian but not via Stony Brook campus funds.
- Marine Sciences is big out there. Bill Godfrey is trying to contact Malcolm Bowman concerning some discussion about possibly expanding the Marine Sciences program at Southampton.
- Alan Tucker asked about the dorms. Bill reported that there are parts of two dorms that are operative (separate ones for men and women) with about a total of 80 beds. Apparently, this is sufficient for now since about 50 of the approximately 120 students reside off campus.
- Alan Tucker also asked how many students there now were students at Southampton before Stony Brook took it over. Kane Gillespie said none of the current students were there prior to its incorporation into Stony Brook as there was a period when there were no student at all and all had to have come through Stony Brook.
- There was some discussion about the money available to students at Southampton for their co-curricular activities since the per capital allocation from student fee funds was probably inadequate for starting up the range of student activities at a new campus. There was a suggestion that Joe Antonelli, President of USG, be asked to bring this issue to the Student Life Committee to enlist its support in requesting President Kenny and Vice President for Student Affairs Peter Baigent to provide some seed money to help meet the start-up costs for student activities at Southampton.
- There was a discussion of the journal Southampton Review that is published by “Bookhampton” with articles from contributors like Frank McCoy, Roger Rosenblatt, Christopher Durang, and Ursula Hegi and others.. Questions were raised as to where the money was coming from to cover the costs of publishing and where the revenues from the journal went to.
4) Norm announced that CAPRA will be getting two new members: Larry Wittie
from Computer Science and a faculty member from the Life Sciences.
5) Kane asked for guidance as to what should be the focus of the “reporting
structure” subcommittee. It was recommended to him that the
subcommittee study the reporting structures on both the East and West
campuses, and that might do so by trying to find out if there is a Table of
Organization available.
- The next meeting of CAPRA will be at 2:30 on November 30th and the
subcommittees are reminded to continue to work on their assigned tasks and be prepared to give a progress report at that meeting Also, Dan Melucci will be at the November 30th meeting to discuss the administration’s consideration of a revised budget process for the campus as well as Stony Brook’s submission to System Administration for the 2008-2009 budget request.
7) The meeting ended at 3:05.
