PRESIDING
OFFICER: Paul Panayotatos,
Chairperson
CALL TO ORDER, DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM, AND CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT
- Paul Panayotatos, Chairperson
Chairperson Panayotatos called the meeting to order at 1:17 p.m.
in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center, College Avenue
Campus, New Brunswick. His chairperson's report included comments on:
- his practice of meeting with President McCormick and
Executive Vice President Furmanski, along with Senate Vice Chair Ann
Gould, at the beginning of each semester to exchange priorities and
ideas for the coming semester, and his recent and productive meeting
for that purpose;
- emergence of the Report of the Task Force on Higher Education as a priority for Senate consideration and discussions;
- his optimism in reading the Task Force report's many
references to Rutgers as New Jersey's "flagship public research
university"; and
- introduction of Senator Robert Boikess as substitute parliamentarian for this meeting.
SECRETARY'S REPORT - Ken
Swalagin, Executive Secretary
- Agenda: The meeting's agenda, including time
limits, was approved as distributed by the executive secretary.
- Minutes: The Minutes of November 19, 2010 Senate Meeting were approved as
distributed by the executive secretary.
- Communications - The following communications were presented by the executive secretary:
- New Jersey Higher Education Task Force Report has been released (link goes to Rutgers webpage with links to the report and related documents).
- The following individuals were selected by Executive Vice
President Furmanski, and have agreed to serve on the SEBS Executive
Dean's Evaluation Committee: Melike Baykal-Gursoy, Ann Gould, Jo
Messing, Chris Malloy, Joe Potenza, John Reinfelder, Marilyn Russo, and
Mark Vodak. Melike Gursoy and Joe Potenza were selected from the list
of Senate Executive Committee nominees.
- President McCormick's November 22, 2010 Response to the Senate's October 2010 Report and Recommendations on Charge S-1003 on the Fall 2011 Academic Calendar
- President McCormick's December 13, 2010 Response and the University Foundation's Response to the Senate's May 2009 Report and Recommendations on Charge S-0707 on Rutgers Fundraising Income
- November 15, 2010 Email from Gregory Blimling, Vice President for Student Affairs, transmitting changes to the Code of Student Conduct recommended by the Committee on Student Conduct, along with a cover memo summarizing the recommended changes sent to Dr. Blimling by Anne Newman, Director of Student Conduct
COMMITTEE
REPORTS
University Structure and Governance Committee (USGC) Response to Charge S-0712 on Enhanced Shared Governance, and University Senate and
Draft Senate Handbook Changes - Peter Gillett, USGC Chair
This report included recommended changes to Senate bylaws, and was
therefore introduced at the previous Senate meeting, and was docketed
for action at this meeting. Senator Gillett, chair of the Senate's
University Structure and Governance Committee, summarized his
committee's report and its recommendations. Without further discussion,
the report and its recommendations were adopted unanimously by the
Senate.
University Structure and Governance Committee Response to Charge S-1006 on Staggered Terms for Staff Senators - Peter Gillett, USGC Chair
Senator
Gillett summarized his committee's report and its recommendations on
implementing staggered terms for staff Senators, and read the
recommendation at the end of the report. Without further discussion,
the report and its recommendations were adopted unanimously by the
Senate.
Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee (ASRAC) Response to Charge S-1010 on New Academic Integrity Policy and a companion document
entitled "
Procedures for Adjudicating Alleged Nonseparable Violations of
Academic Integrity" - Martha Cotter and Dan Schantz, ASRAC Co-chairs
Senators Cotter and Schantz, co-chairs of the Academic Standards,
Regulations and Admissions Committee, presented their committee's
report and recommendations in response to Charge S-1010, which called
for a review of the New Academic Integrity Policy. Cotter summarized
the background and process of revising the Academic Integrity Policy.
Schantz then read the report's recommendations and resolution.
Following brief discussion (the new Academic Integrity Policy drafts
having been reviewed and discussed by the Senate at previous meetings),
the report and its recommendations were adopted unanimously by the
Senate. Cotter thanked all the committees involved in revising the
Academic Integrity Policy.
OLD BUSINESS: There
was no old business.
NEW BUSINESS: There was no new business.
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT -
President Richard L. McCormick
President McCormick, noting that Executive Vice President Furmanski's
New Brunswick Campus Report would follow his own administrative report,
spoke briefly and responded to questions on the Report of the Task
Force on Higher Education, and, in particular, the sections on Rutgers.
NEW BRUNSWICK CAMPUS REPORT - Executive Vice President for Academic
Affairs Philip Furmanski
Executive Vice President for
Academic Affairs Philip Furmanski presented a New Brunswick campus report. A
summary of the
report, will be posted online shortly.
REPORT ON PROJECT CIVILITY - Kathleen Hull, Project Civility Co-Founder, and Director of Byrne Family First-Year Seminars
Kathleen Hull, Project Civility Co-Founder, and Michelle Brazier,
Senior Executive Associate in the Office of Undergraduate Education,
presented a video and information on Project Civility. They then
responded to questions and heard comments on their presentation. Hull,
who is also Director of Byrne Family First-Year Seminars, asked any
faculty who may be thinking about teaching a Byrne seminar next year to
contact her.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT: Vice Chairperson Ann Gould reported on the
January 14, 2011 Senate Executive
Committee meeting.
REPORTS OF
REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES:
The report from Representatives to the Board of Governors was deferred
until the February Senate meeting. Senator Rabinowitz, Faculty
Representative to the Board of
Trustees, reported on the December 9, 2010 Board of Trustees
meeting.
CAMPUS FACULTY LIAISON
REPORTS: There were no reports from campus faculty liaisons.
ADJOURNMENT: The meeting adjourned at 3:31
p.m.
Minutes Written and Submitted by:
Ken Swalagin
Executive Secretary of the University Senate